Starrie Williamson, Interactive Media Designer & Web Developer
Experience
University of Virginia Library
March 2011 — Present
Senior Web Designer/Developer for the Communications department.
Web Communications, Department of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
August 2010 — March 2011
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.
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.
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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.
Skills
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
Technology
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
Education
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
Recent Work ( 2008—2010 )
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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Contact
Phone
Mobile: (434) 825-7565