seth ferris

Web site design, development and maintenance. Support of the SMITH hospitality brands through design and production where needed.

* Designing and coding high volume HTML emails according to set standards * Clients designed and coded for include Starbucks, Boost Mobile, Sears, Kmart, Disney and Yahoo * As webmaster, update and maintain the CheetahMail website as well as multiple intranet sites, supply graphic support for CheetahMail’s extensive email deployment application

* Design original front end interfaces for corporate intranets * Prep graphics for web, build and maintain project style guides * Essential to the job was a strong sense of current design trends, HTML limitations and web standards * Projects designed include intranet sites for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and AIG

* Hired as a full time employee, after having been brought on as as a freelance designer * Contributions to Family.com’s major site redesign * Creating and preparing new graphics for site * Learned to access the company’s existing extensive image library for story and product image selection * Participated in focus group sessions and contributions to weekly department and company design meetings * Upon completion of the total site redesign, Family.com’s unique users increased by 13% and those users looked at 27% more pages throughout the site

* Report to the Senior VP of Business Development and Marketing * Visual and GUI/UI design, respectively, of projects for web including customer portals, mobile devices and print collateral including data-visualization and infographics * As webmaster maintain uReach’s corporate and consumer facing sites as needed * Accomplishments include major redesign of three, and launched a brand new fourth, uReach web property * Lead designer as part of a small UI team developing uReach’s first Android Market product release, VisionMail

* Design Web UI’s and print layouts for Phizer and Merck products typically for a Health Care Provider audience * Contribute to new account design charettes through developing initial ideas through to final projects, as well as participate in intense new account pitch programs as an integral part of a larger creative team * Daily, maintain and update as needed currently active projects

* THE SAWTOOTH GROUP 11/12-6/16 Google Analytics, Social Network * Management, MailChimp, and * Lead major re-design and development of three of Sawtooth's most viewed Email On Acid * digital properties including sawtoothgroup.com and health-craze.com. * Re-designed, including art and UX updates of multiple client sites developed in both * stand alone HTML and CMS applications. Projects included McCormick, Simply Asia, * Potatopia, Segura Viudas and Potatopia. * Lead Sawtooth design presentations, walking clients through design decisions * according to briefs and creative explorations * Managed freelance HTML production help, monitoring project progress, employee hours * and future projects to be completed

* Profecient in the latest Adobe * Partner with Creative Director as a key player in developing exciting creative. Manage Creative Suite including Photoshop, * Junior Designers and assist in Freelance Designer selection as needed. Clients include Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver. * The Weather Company, Ashley Furniture, Triple8, Fizzics and TEDx Navesink. Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint. * Together we have successfully designed and launched a major brand media kit site, HTML, CSS, an understanding of * advertising.weather.com; designed a complete identity system for the popular tech Java Script, PHP, and MySQL * tradeshow CES, including two working food trucks and show collateral; concepted and CMS tools WordPress, WIX, * produced a variety of social media advertising including Facebook Canvas Ads, Twitter SquareSpace and Joomla * Scratch Reels and Pinterest Cinematic Pins.

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