Blake
blake@focusednrg.com
904-703-1084
Saint Johns, FL 32259
UX/UI, Art Direction
30 years experience W2
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Summary

Innovative, detail-oriented, and collaborative UX/UI design leader and educator with 20+ years of experience creating user-centered and effective design solutions. Strong problem-solving, leadership, time management, and organization skills honed working with B2B and B2C clients and in the classroom. Passionate about mentoring designers. Enthusiastic about learning and taking on new challenges while committed to continuous self-improvement.

  • Experience managing design teams and facilitating both group critiques and 1-on-1
  • Adept at gathering user research and business requirements and translating them into creative and functional design strategies
  • Accomplished at designing solutions from conceptualization to creation to execution
  • Proficient with implementing existing brand standards or establishing new systems
  • 20+ years of hand-coding standards-based and accessible HTML and CSS

SKILLS: UX research, wireframing, prototyping, UX/UI design, Web and mobile design, accessibility, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

SOFTWARE:

  • Prototyping: Figma, Sketch, XD, UxPin, InVision
  • Web / CMS: Bootstrap, Foundation, WordPress, Oxygen, Elementor, Webflow, Ektron, Cascade
  • Accessibility: WCAG, Section 508
  • Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, XD, Premiere, Acrobat, After Effects
  • Email Marketing: Mail Chimp
  • Collaboration: Slack, Zoom, Miro, Milanote
  • Project Management: Monday, Trello, Basecamp
  • Office: Google Docs, Microsoft Office Suite

Experience
Education
Master's in Graphic Design
Savannah College of Art and Design 2004
Bachelor's in Advertising
Columbia College 1994
Skills
Graphic Design
2022
38
Project Management
2022
38
UX
2022
38
Wireframing
2022
38
HTML
2022
25
UI
2022
22
Client Engagement Leadership
2022
21
Consulting
2022
21
CSS
2022
21
Figma
2022
21
JavaScript
2022
21
Marketing Strategy
2022
21
Strategic Planning
2022
21
UX Research
2022
21
Wordpress
2022
21
ADA Compliance
2022
17
Adobe XD
2022
17
Budget Management
2022
17
Content Management Systems
2022
17
Design Thinking
2022
17
Mentoring
2022
17
Program Coordinator
2022
17
Purchasing
2022
17
Rapid Prototyping
2022
17
Training
2022
17
User Interface design
2022
17
Compliance
2022
1
Digital Media
2022
1
Webmaster
2022
1
Continuous Deployment
2000
3
Manufacturing
2000
3
Presentation
2005
3
Software
2000
3
Architecture
2001
1
AutoCad
1997
1
Sketch
1997
1
Adobe Creative Suite
0
1
Adobe Illustrator
0
1
Adobe Photoshop
0
1
Advertising
2005
1
Bootstrap
0
1
Business Requirements
0
1
Illustrations
2005
1
InDesign
0
1
Information Graphics
2005
1
Interaction Design
0
1
InVision
0
1
Motion
2000
1
Problem Solving
0
1
Prototyping
0
1
Tradeshow Design
2005
1
User-Centered Design
0
1