University at Buffalo

Digital Media Manager at Animal Legal Defense Fund

Portland, Oregon

The Animal Legal Defense Fund files high-impact lawsuits to protect animals from harm, provides free legal assistance and training to prosecutors in their fight against animal cruelty, supports animal protection legislation, and provides resources and opportunities to law students and professionals to advance the field of animal law.

Animal Legal Defense Fund

Digital Media Manager

UX Designer providing strategy, concepting and detailed interaction design.

Evolve Collaborative

UX Designer (contract)

Worked as part of a design team on a large-scale project for a major cable and internet provider designing a product that will be used by millions of users.• Created wireframes, user journeys, task flows, interactive prototypes, and full interface mockups. • Performed competitive and landscape analysis. • Created motion studies and animations for key experience moments.• Created a functioning product prototype that was used as proof-of-concept for a presentation to the CEO and upper-level executive team.

Citizen, Inc.

Senior UX Designer (contract)

UX Designer for multiple large-format touch screen applications including work for the Atlanta Braves, Northeastern University, and Northwestern Mutual.• Designed interactions, wireframes, and user journeys. • Presented project concepts and vision to key client stakeholders. • Helped manage timelines and expectations by working across multiple teams including creative direction, project management, and development.

Downstream

UX Designer for a responsive website for a marketing site for Utah winter vacation experiences.• Designed wireframes, prepared user personas and user journeys based on marketing research.• Helped craft the overall user experience for the website, ensuring that the design vision, business goals, and the needs of the user all melded into a cohesive whole.

Struck

UX Designer for multiple projects: • Performed strategy and analysis for web-based interactive projects, including multi-site digital properties.• Prepared user personas, user journeys, and wireframes for responsive websites.• Interviewed users and synthesized findings to form and validate strategic direction.

AKQA

Designer/developer for multiple interactive projects for clients including SiriusXM, M-Go, and Adidas. • Designed, animated, and developed interactive prototypes for concept ideation and user testing.• Worked as part of a larger team on a large-scale, full-functioning prototype for a new interactive service offering in the streaming entertainment sphere.• Facilitated and participated in user testing for concept iteration, validation.

ZIBA

Interactive Designer/Developer (contract)

Designed icon systems for enterprise software suites including a 400+ icon set for Business Works 6.

TIBCO

Icon Designer

Created icon sets for mobile, online games, Facebook, Enterprise software and desktop applications including work for Nokia, HP, Boost Mobile, and AT&T.

Various

Icon Designer (freelance)

Worked with the newly founded interactive division to create next generation, device-based interfaces. • Worked as part of a team on the Intel Reader. Designed interactions, user flows, and interface concepts. Developed interactive prototypes for user testing.• Designed and developed rapid prototypes in Flash/After Effects in conjunction with the industrial design team for various projects.

LUNAR Design

UI Designer (contract)

Worked with team at Punchcut to build next-generation interfaces for mobile, tablet and TV. • Developed prototypes, product walkthroughs, and motion studies for multiple interactive projects including work for Google, Motorola, and AT&T.• Pioneered a rapid-prototyping strategy using Flash/AIR and After Effects to quickly explore user interaction concepts that enabled a highly-effective iterative design process.• Designed icon sets and systems for clients including Nokia, AT&T, and Boost Mobile.

Punchcut

Senior Interactive Designer, animator, developer, icon designer and flat-faced dog wrangler.• Developed interactive applications for car console demonstrations that were shown at trade-shows and to high level executives at VW.• Designed and animated various interactives for clients in the videogame, real estate, digital, and IT spheres.• Designed icon systems for multiple clients.

Propane Studio

Interactive Designer (contract)

Developed e-Learning courses and applications for businesses such as Cisco, HP, HSBC, and Motorola.

A.S.K. Learning

Interactive Designer

Designed digital experiences and user interfaces for multiple digital design agencies. Provided strategic direction and planning for large-scale projects for clients such as Nike, Intel, XFINITY, and Wacom. Performed research and problem definition exercises and developed solutions to meet both business goals and user needs.Extensive experience working as both a lead and support in fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, and varied environments. Over a decade of prototype development experience. Expert at communicating product vision through building custom interactive prototypes and integrating iterative, rapid prototyping into a design process. Clients:Nike, VW, Intel, XFINITY, Motorola, SiriusXM, The Atlanta Braves, Wacom, Nokia, AT&T, Boost, T-Mobile, Comcast, Google, Utah Office of Tourism, Northwestern University.

David Phillips