Starrie Williamson, Interactive Media Designer & Web Developer

College & Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia

March 2008 — Present

Web Developer: Design, develop and maintain the main Arts & Sciences and Campaign for the College websites. Manage, develop and maintain department, e-newseltters and news website projects. Write project documentation, create videos, and develop web applications. Technologies used include hand-coded HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, XSLT, PHP and Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0.

Equinox Multimedia

September 2003 — March 2008

Owner/Multimedia & Web Developer: Met with clients, planned and managed web and graphics projects, designed and developed graphics materials, websites, flash applications, and other forms of interactive media. Technologies used included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Actionscript 2.0 and 3.0

RHED Pixel

October 2004 — December 2004

Interactive Designer Internship: Maintained internal and external websites, as well as produced websites for clients. Created graphics formatted for broadcast, DVD video and conference presentations. Created Keynote Presentations for the American Diabetes Association. Designed Soulmates website which was featured on Apple.com.

The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

January 2002 — September 2003

Multimedia & Web Designer: At The Center for Technology and Teacher Education I performed multimedia, website design and graphic design for all in-house projects. I designed user interfaces for educational software tools based on usability studies. I also provided Flash instructon for graduate students.

Boxer Learning, Inc.

October 1999 — July 2001

Graphics Artist/Multimedia Designer: Developed interface graphics, created Flash animations and interactions for Fundamental Math using Flash and actionscript. Oversaw the look and feel of the graphics in all lessons. Provided training, support, and documentation to content writers and the production department.

Fairfield Language Technologies/The Rosetta Stone

December 1998 — October 1999

Graphic Designer/Print Production Assistant: Created Graphics and produced layout for ancillary materials, designed the website, and created graphics for the award-winning language learning software The Rosetta Stone.

Information architecture, wireframe prototyping, interface design, computer illustration, digital image manipulation, layout and graphic design for print, web, cd-rom, dvd or broadcast media

Photography, typography, logo design, storyboarding, interactive scriptwriting, technical drawing, operational knowledge of audio and video production equipment, knowledge of professional audio and video production techniques, audio and video post- production, motion graphics, 2D & 3D computer animation

Exceptional project management, communication, research & problem solving capabilities. Broad experience working on successful teams. Completed an Agile project management workshop in 2009

Strong background in education environments and usability development for educational software applications

Programming and development for websites, rich internet / web applications, cd-roms and dvds

Computer Operating Systems

Extensive experience with both Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems

Imaging and Design Software

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Streamline, Adobe Fireworks, Corel Painter, Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat Professional

Computer Animation Software

Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, Vecta3D, 3D Studio Max

Multimedia/Web Development

Hand coded standards-compliant coding, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex Builder (Flash Builder), Microsoft PowerPoint, Apple KeyNote, Adobe Dreamweaver, Putty, SlideShowPro, Ning, Adobe Contribute, PHP Nuke, Joomla, Eclipse, PHP MyAdmin, WAMP, Agile Project Management, Wordpress installation & custom theme development

Languages

XHTML, HTML 5, XML, CSS 2 & 3, JavaScript, XSLT, Object Oriented Actionscript 2.0 & 3.0, SQL, PHP, SSL, JQuery, MXML, AJAX

Audio/Video

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Audition, Pro-Tools, SoundForge, Steinburg Cubase, DVD Studio Pro, Steinberg Wavelab, Propellerhead Reason, Quicktime Pro, Final Cut Pro, Sorensen Squeeze, Adobe Flash, Logic Pro, Apple Color

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Multimedia and Web Design

The Art Institute of Washington

Arlington, VA, 2005

Associate of Science in Multimedia

The Art Institute of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA, 1998

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia

I work with one other developer to maintain, design, and develop the Arts & Sciences website. I designed, wrote the html and css of the layout of the home page and Undergraduate scections, as well as fulfill requests made by content stewards across the college and graduate school. Last year I produced and edited a "New Student Guide" for incoming students using Adobe Flash Builder (Flex) and Adobe After Effects.

Department of French Language & Literature, University of Virginia

I served as the project manager and lead designer and developer for this website redesign project. I worked with the French Department Chair and Chairman to produce an updated user interface and modern branding to attract the best graduate students. I used JQuery on the home page for the news section and people pages for faculty listings.

Asia Institute, University of Virginia

I worked with the managing director and outreach coordinator to create a website for newly created Asia Institute at the University of Virginia within the main Arts & Sciences template.

Campaign for the College, University of Virginia

I worked with the Arts & Sciences Development project manager to redesign and update both the marketing message and goals for the College and Graduate School as expressed through this primarily fund-raising website.I built this site using the Arts & Sciences website template, for the basic structure, and then build upon it with new html and CSS.

McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia

Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia

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Phone

Mobile: (434) 825-7565