My resume

Location

Melbourne, Australia

Telephone

041 123 9190

Email

chris@eeoh.com.au

Web Site

eeoh.com.au/chris/

Work Objectives

  • To be an integral part of a strong team focused on delivering the best possible products.
  • To design better ways of getting things done, and improve the ways in which people work and play.
  • To work on products which have a positive affect on the lives of a large number of people.

Skills & Experience Summary

  • More than seventeen years working as a designer.
  • Interaction and user interface design for software, web sites, multimedia and publications.
  • User focused design research and evaluation in formal and guerilla environments.
  • Visual and information design for reports, magazines, packaging and promotional material.
  • Identity design for brands, products and companies.
  • Motion graphics and video production for web, multimedia, theatre and corporate events.
  • Management and direction of a range of projects and design teams.
  • Liaison and management of a wide variety of clients, suppliers and service providers.

Operating systems, environments and languages

CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Quicktime, plus a variety of web servers and networked systems

Design and production software

Adobe Acrobat, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Director, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe GoLive, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, BBEdit, Final Cut, iShell, OmniGraffle, Quark Xpress

Productivity and business software

FileMaker Pro, iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD), iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers), Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Outlook, MYOB

Employment History

Freelance and contract designer,  2009 – current

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Symplicit Pty. Ltd., 2009

Senior Experience Designer

  • Worked on and lead a range of design projects for client’s including Telstra, Sensis, Realestate.com.au and National Australia Bank.
  • Key projects have included personal health, mobile banking, self service, and online search.
  • Day to day my work covered a range of research and design activities including contextual inquiry, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, and visual design.

Sensis Pty. Ltd., 2007 – 2009

Design Lead User Experience Team

  • Lead a team of designers working on White Pages, Voice, Search and Self Serve products for Sensis. This team was responsible for the visual design, interaction design and overall user experience of these products.
  • Day to day I oversaw and ensured the quality and standard of design for all these products, and worked with key stake holders to ensure good design outcomes for the products.
  • Oversaw the renovation of the Usability Lab into the current Design Lab, and then managed the research and activities of the new lab over a six month period.

Freelance and contract designer,  2002 – 2007

  • Interaction and user interface design for computer software and web-based applications.
  • Web site design, production & maintenance.
  • Design and production of print items including, reports, magazines, brochures and stationary.
  • Product branding and identity design.
  • Corporate video production and delivery.
  • Clients include BankWest, The Blue Room Theatre, Croissant Express, Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum, Home Building Society, JMG Marketing, PACC Software, Sharman Networks (Kazaa), Tura New Music, and more…

WA School of Art, Design & Media, 2003

Lecturer – Design and Multimedia

  • Developed delivery schedules and assessment plans for: Graphic User Interface Design; Interactive Electronic Screen Design; Web Page Development for Multimedia; Authoring 2 – Multimedia.
  • Delivered theoretical and practical lectures and labs for the above modules, and assessed student competency against assessment briefs and learning outcomes.

Powerlan Ltd., 2000 – 2001

Manager – Interactive Design Unit

  • Established Interactive Design Unit in our Sydney office, integrating designers from other offices.
  • The unit worked closely with internal software development teams to improve and evolve the interfaces of both internal and client systems across a wide range of platforms including web, voice and terminal based applications.
  • Worked with sales and business analysis teams to develop client briefs, proposals and specifications.
  • Responsible for unit’s personnel, including recruitment, professional development and performance.

Senacon Ltd., 1999 – 2000

Senior Designer

  • Designed and developed the interface of the Senacon WebMerchant e-commerce stores.
  • Oversaw the branding of the company leading up to product launch and public listing, including company identity and product branding, direction of corporate reports, advertising, marketing material, packaging, interactive product tour, and web site.
  • Established in-house design team in Sydney office.

Eycon Studio, 1995 – 1999

Senior Designer

  • Established and grew a small visual design studio with a focus on identity and web site design.
  • Successfully designed and maintained the first web site of the Nestlé group of companies world-wide, and went on to design and maintain several more Nestlé sites over a period of five years.
  • Designed identities for retail products, small businesses and government programmes.
  • Designed, built and maintained over 50 web sites for a wide range of clientele.
  • Designed and produced a wide range of printed material including annual reports, newsletters, packaging, labelling, stationary and calendars.

Magnetic Designs,  1992 – 1995

Interaction Designer

  • Established and grew small software development company.
  • Our primary product was The Box Office Manager, which managed ticket sales and printing for small theatres. Additional custom software solutions included course evaluation systems for Murdoch University, and self paced learning software and tools for disabled students.
  • Primarily responsible for user interface and interaction design, as well as client support and liaison.

Education History

Bachelor of Multimedia with First Class Honours – BMMedia(Hons)

Murdoch University, 2006

Leeming Senior High School, 1992

  • Tertiary Entrance Score 374 out of 510.
  • Tertiary Entrance Rank 94.8%.
  • Subjects taken: Computer Science, Photography, Economics, English, Geometry & Trigonometry, Calculus.

Other Experience, Qualifications & Awards

  • Apple Developer Connection, Member since 1993
  • Association for Computing Machinery – Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Member since 2005
  • Recipient $20,000 Nescafé Big Break Award, 1992