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About Me

I'm a highly motivated, creative and intuitive UI/UX Designer with over twenty five years of experience in graphic design, web development, wire frames and interactive prototyping. An energetic self-starter with excellent analytical, organizational and creative skills seeking a challenging multimedia/computer position in the web/computer field.

Education

After 6 years of working in corporate America, I decided to leave and increase my knowledge by going back to school. I graduated in 2005 with two Associate degrees; one degree in Web Development and another degree as a Systems Analyst. I also graduated with honors and made the Dean's list every semester.

After graduation, my learning didn't stop. I started living on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website learning the difference between the two types of HTML elements and writing sementically correct HTML. I then turned my attention to learning how to implement ADA Compliance to my HTML coding.

Learning is a never ending story for me. I understood along time ago that you need to keep learning so you can evolve with the current trends.

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Work History

I"ve been working as a UI/UX Designer for over 25 years with Section 508 ADA Compliance experience. Contracting for 16 years exposed me to many different industries. This allowed me to experience many different process's. The ones I found to work well, I added to my day to day process's.

Follett was the last of my contracting days. I came to Follett, working a 6 month contract, but after 2 weeks of my manager observing me how I gelled with the teams and making dramatic improvements to our products, he asked me to go full time. My manager made me the Lead UI/UX Designer, overseeing all of Follett's products. Not only did I help guide our products, I would also provide HTML and CSS classes for our developers.

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Web Design

Creating unique professional websites have been a passion of mine. I enjoy sitting down with people and showing them how I can incorporate their ideas, along with mine, into a unique professional website that reflects their business. There's nothing more fulfilling than watching a web design come to life and then watch the people's faces light up as I present the website.

I'm well versed in the use of front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation and Material Design. I use semantic HTML when I code and use SCSS in my creation of CSS. I also add Section 508 ADA Compliance when coding my HTML.

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Graphic Design

I've always enjoyed designing graphics. I started my graphic design career in 1997 as a marketing assistant manipulating clipart images for brochures and I then moved on to creating unique designs for banners, logos, brochures fliers, webpages and flash animation. I started out using Photoshop 4.0 and have been using it all the way to the current version. Illustrator is another graphic design program I enjoy using. I typically use Illustrator for logo's, being that it's a line-art program. I'm always combing the internet for better techniques to keep up with the laaboutContainer trends.

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User Experience

I use Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch and Invision for all of my prototyping. The app used is dependent on who is receiving the file.

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