Alana Post

Current

• UI Designer at LibraryThing
• User Interface Designer at Foneshow
• Volunteer Program Support at ArtVan

• Website Maker (Self-employed)

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Past

• Volunteer Web Designer at Maine Film & Video Association
• Operations Support Specialist at MediaPower
• Technical Specialist and Web Designer at National Academy for State Health Policy

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Education

• Maine College of Art
• Bangor High School

Recommended

2 people have recommended Alana

Connections

92 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Portfolio
• Twitter
• Flickr

Alana Post’s Summary

I have demonstrable expertise in HTML, CSS, print design, typesetting, editing video/audio/photographs, hardware/software support and API integration. My layout sensibilities and color coordination skills are, shall I say... awesome. I've got years of experience using Adobe C. (Currently shifted into BBEdit or TextMate w/Coda and Acorn for dev/design, and I'm learning both git and svn for version control.) Notable: through my roles as a consultant, speaker, and instructor I have effortlessly leapt over the communication abyss between "techies and non-techies". Thus, I can explain virtually anything to anyone. And actually enjoy it. I know, right?

In addition to design work, I've done project management and hardware/software/networking/AV technical support for the high-profile clients of a NYC-based technological services company. Ask me from which award-winning actress' laptop I removed a virus: I'll never tell!

As if that extensive set of super-useful skills and aptitudes is not enough, I am a regular guest speaker (as well as an instructor) on the topics of digital portfolio creation, e-commerce and content management systems.

In summary: if it has to do with the internet or a gadget, for me it is analogous to the sweet water of the open sea to a baby beluga.

Alana Post’s Specialties:

web design, print design, web development, project management, technical support, software support, html, css, print design, mashups, photoshop, windows, mac, networking, hardware, digital peripherals, image research, aggregation, online media, creative writing, illustration

Alana Post’s Experience

• UI Designer

  LibraryThing

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year )

  library lover
  user interface obsessed
  changes everything

• User Interface Designer

  Foneshow

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Wireless industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  Foneshow consultant
  netting delicious podcasts
  short forms with long tails

• Volunteer Program Support

  ArtVan

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  ArtVan is a mobile arts therapy program whose mission is to service disadvantaged children, teens and adults, providing the arts as a healing agent for safe, creative expression and self discovery.
  
  I do a bunch of photo documenting and get to make art with kids. ArtVan pays me in cake!

• Website Maker

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)

  March 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  For many years I have designed and developed websites for educational and nonprofit organizations, businesses, individuals, and for private projects / "proof-of-concept".

Additional Information

Alana Post’s Websites:

• Portfolio
• Twitter
• Flickr

Alana Post’s Interests:

network theory, game theory, reading, electronics, bicycling, mapping, documentaries, fixing things, drawing, writing, apartment gardens, street art, emergence, sustainability, online social psychology, nonprofit technology implementation, useful web applications, social networking sites, user interface, web accessibility, human-computer interaction, network sociology, good experience, organizational technology, common-sense design, ADVENTURES!!!

Alana Post’s Groups:

arabica coffee!

Alana Post’s Honors:

Vision Grant awarded — Maine College of Art, 2007-08

Alana Post’s Contact Settings

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