Kevan McGowan: Website Design & Development

Resumé

education

San Francisco State University, Master of Arts in Industrial Arts (2/2007) with emphasis in visual communication, UX design, color theory, & UI design. GPA: 3.8
University of California at Santa Cruz, Bachelor of Arts (06/2001)
Politics major. Successfully completed courses in Graphic Design, Art History and Film. Exhibited strengths in writing.
West Valley Community College, September 2001-May 2003, completed various design software classes. Member, West Valley Design Group.

work experience

10/2008-11/2009
SmartyCard, Interaction Designer, San Mateo, CA
Redesigned a child registration flow that dramatically improved completion rates. Acted as a lead UI/UX designer to streamline parent account interactions. Hand-coded & designed various site elements including: homepage & interactive help.
06-2008-09/2008
Six Apart, Web Developer/Designer, San Francisco, CA
Contracted to design and build appealing marketing assets for typepad.com, movabletype.com, and sixapart.com. Lead the design process during the movabletype.com redesign.
04/2007-06/2008
Tribal DDB, Interface Engineer, San Francisco, CA
Designed and developed for many high profile web properties including: clorox.com, scoopaway.com, & glad.com. Regularly coded compliant & clean XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, & Actionscript. Contributed to the safeway.com redesign as an art director.
10/2001-Present
Freelance Designer and Developer
Completed various projects involving UX design, logo design, web design and development for clients such as Volkswagen Electronics Lab, Actuate Corporation, & Frances Baca Design.

skills

Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, TextMate, CMS, InDesign, Acrobat Professional on both windows and mac platforms.
Coding: Proficient in scripting XHTML/CSS. Familiar with ActionScript 2 & 3, Javascript, & Jquery. Optimize and debug code for leading browsers to ensure cross-platform compatibility, including IE 6.

activities

Volunteered as a team member in a student studio development and build at SFSU. Co- ordinated studio unveiling party.
Acted as a Teaching Assistant in various courses through SF State.

references

References available upon request