User interface elements Web design Print design HTML e-mail newsletters USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS Security software firm infoLock Technologies contracted with me to produce new graphical Web icons for their Web site. These images needed to incorporate the specific PMS colors of the client's logo, and also needed to match the perspective used in the company's logo. Biotechnology company Perkin Elmer sought to migrate the user interface for one of its gas chromotography instruments from a keypad to a touch screen. I designed a series of related icons, produced graphic design prototypes for all screens, and developed all digital images for the touch screen, and continue to provide icon design work on an ongoing basis for new gas chromatograph interface updates. Since then, I have developed additional graphical icons on an as-needed basis for the firm. An article about the major user interface redesign I helped create appeared in American Laboratory magazine. MDS Sciex builds mass spectrometers and develops instrument control software. I designed a series of icons for a new instrument control software application. WEB DESIGN United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) I undertook a project user experience design project — and then a project manager role — for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in developing their Growing Inclusive Markets Web site. I first developed the HTML wireframes and wrote technical specs to be used for building the full database-driven site. I then managed the project development and launch for this Joomla-driven, multilingual site. First Precinct Community Council I set up and complete regular updates for the First Precinct Community Council's Web site, a community forum for residents and businesses interested in community and police issue concerning Manhattan's First Precinct. Beyond Profit Magazine Beyond Profit, a social enterprise magazine, wanted a new WordPress site. I created a WordPress theme based on a series of Photoshop templates. For Fashion-fox.com, which uses WordPress, I customized the CSS for its Semiologic theme. I also created the new logo and designed a series of fashion-themed icons for use in posts. For STAT! The Podcast of Clinical Neurology News and a second medical news podcast, I streamlined the team's editorial production and publication process with a single WordPress blog. I implemented plug-ins, provided extensive training and explanation of site statistics, and helped this novel podcasting organization get work done much more efficiently. For Polaris Management Partners, a management consulting firm for the pharmaceutical industry, I redesigned their Web presence in an extremely short timeframe. I created new graphics based on PowerPoint charts, developed comprehensive stylesheets, and included a DTHML navigational structure for their clients engagement page. For NewJerseyEIFS.com, an attorney's Web site, I created text-based navigational rollovers that have graphical appeal, and enabled a contact form. I put Photoshop actions to work in quickly creating over 2,100 graphics for this client's Web collection showcasing how sample images would look in a variety of different colored and patterned frames. In 2006, I designed galleries and a membership form for Wedding Planners Hawaii, a bridal industry business based in Hawaii. I designed this Web site for AccuScan Inc., a Florida-based medical imaging company providing high-quality ambulatory diagnostic ultrasound services to physicians in their offices and clinics. This project included logo development and CSS-only layout. I produced this Web site for the writer Jonathan Cott, who has authored 16 books. This site uses CSS only, no tables, for positioning elements. In February 2006, I helped Claughton Capital relaunch this financial firm's site with new content and Web hosting. I produced new financial performance charts with graphics created in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. In a client engagement with Honeywell, I assisted in developing a strategy for redesigning and reorganizing intranet content, specifically for compensation and benefits information. I developed design templates, conducted a content audent, and produced training documentation and a communications plan. I created and rapidly implemented an initial marketing plan for netomat, a New York-based multimedia software company. Deliverables included content development and design for netomat's Web site, print media kit, and trade show exhibition materials. I provided the Flash animations and HTML production for hotel representative Yellin Hotels's Web site. I enjoy developing small business Web sites for entrepreneurs. I designed JF Designs Jewelry, a Web site featuring custom-designed beaded jewelry by Julie French. Another Web site makeover for a small business client: the New York-based Tri State Limo. I redesigned this limousine company's Web site, created all new HTML documents and developed new PHP scripts for online reservations and corporate applications. TrainWithDom.com and Studentfit.com are two small business Web sites that I developed for a personal trainer. I provided the graphical site design, all HTML production, installation support for ASP.NET scripting, and Cold Fusion updates. Here's an example of a small business Web site I made over: bodySinging.com showcases the work of vocal coach and author Breck Alan. PRINT DESIGN I design and lay out 500-page annual research compendia for Media Dynamics, a media, marketing and advertising consultancy. These include print and e-book versions for TV Dimensions and Magazine Dimensions. I lay out these periodicals using QuarkXpress; I also create fully linked tables of content and indices (using Sonar Bookends) for the e-book versions. Ziff Davis Media's Baseline magazine prides itself on its infographics and visual innovations in presenting technical and financial information. As a contributing editor at Baseline, I researched and designed technical infographics for the print magazine. For the publication's Web site, I built Javascript-based interactive tools and redesigned the site's information architecture. HTML E-MAIL CAMPAIGNS I've created HTML e-mail newsletters on an ad hoc basis for various clients over the years. Recently, I helped a design company called 2frogz troubleshoot the XHTML problems they were having with their e-mail newsletter service, which had instituted new validation tools.