Brian Duchek

Current

Partner at Snowflake Media
Senior Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
Vice President at Hawthorne Condominium Association

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Past

Senior Software Engineer at Opsware
Software Engineer, Interaction Designer at iConclude
Web Developer, Technical Analyst II at Ajilon Consulting

Sr. Technical Web Producer at United Airlines
Email/Web Producer, Assoc Project Mgr at MyPoints.com Inc
Certified Repair / Support Technician at S&S Automotive

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Education

William Rainey Harper College
DePaul University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Brian Duchek’s Summary

Passionately devotes best practice efforts to creating positive user-focused software experiences at all levels of the product development process from idea conception and architecture design to testing and deployment.

Over seven years of interactive design and development experience spent crafting and iterating web applications and e-commerce software systems. Advanced visual design skills practiced with strong record of usable interfaces, appreciated standards advocacy, and studied accessibility features. Expert web technology experience in (x)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, plus strong XML and Java skills in N-tier architecture environments.

Brian Duchek’s Specialties:

Graphic web interface concerns of usability and dynamic interactivity using HTML, XHTML, XML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, PHP, Java and a variety of templating languages.

Brian Duchek’s Experience

Partner

Snowflake Media

(Internet industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

Web design & development firm specializing in front-end coding, usability, and forward-compatible web applications. Consults with small businesses on internet marketing, SEM strategies, and interface and graphic design issues.
Senior Software Engineer

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Continued responsibilities as design lead for web application, and primary front-end engineer for entire product team.

Rebranded, enhanced and released first version of former Opsware product under HP brand standards.
Vice President

Hawthorne Condominium Association

(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Various seats on Board of Directors for a non-profit homeowners association.
Senior Software Engineer

Opsware

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; OPSW; Computer Software industry)

April 2007 — October 2007 (7 months)

[See iConclude description.]
Software Engineer, Interaction Designer

iConclude

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2005 — April 2007 (2 years)

Lead Interface Designer for range of product offerings. Develop broad range of visual design assets, provide solid branding, and consistent experience for enterprise-level IT customers.

Direct team efforts for critical experience touch points to deliver a complicated visual scripting / programming environment authoring and execution tool in an easily accessible and learn-able model.

Leveraged minimal assets to create a library of paper personas for reference by internal development staff, leading to a greater appreciation and understanding of the product audience.

Conducted regular usability reviews and tests on an ongoing basis to uncover opportunities for quick reward and improved effectiveness in the application.

Paper-prototyped concepts for new interaction in the product, reducing time from idea to approval and allowing greater refinement of a concept before implementation work began.
Web Developer, Technical Analyst II

Ajilon Consulting

(Public Company; Internet industry)

February 2005 — May 2005 (4 months)

Contribute to small team of developers by coding and administering changes to the e–meetings web site and supporting web applications using PHP andJSP.

Saved bandwidth and improved site manageability by increasing CSS and web standards use on site. Proactively corrected incompatibilities with modern browsers on several products.

Advised on and installed new translations of content into multiple language offerings for the Conferencing site.
Sr. Technical Web Producer

United Airlines

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

January 2002 — February 2005 (3 years 2 months)

Provide technical analysis for feature developments, marketing promotions, business work-flow, content management, site enhancements and other initiatives in support of United's online customer touch points.

Act as sole resource for advanced front-end code authoring and support for all development teams on united.com, developing advanced prototypes and interfaces for new features on united.com and flyted.com.

Advise Product Development Managers, Marketing Managers, SEO Strategists and others on issues of web standards, browser compatibility, accessibility, privacy, competitive trends and other perspectives.

Manage per-project staff acquisitions and day-to-day tasks and contributions of temp staff members, mentoring and training along the way.
Email/Web Producer, Assoc Project Mgr

MyPoints.com Inc

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years)

(As Email Producer....)
Responsible for production of targeted online marketing campaigns in the "loyalty marketing" segment of email advertising.

Manage long-term targeted online marketing campaigns for MyPoints clients.

Responsible for revenue of over $500,000 per year in billable email and web campaigns combined.

(As Assoc Project Mgr....)
Assisted Senior Project Managers with the preparation phase of a major software release process.

Authored use-cases, testing scripts and other requirements components, improving quality and accuracy of documentation.

(As Web Producer...)
Led development team for an intranet web site, increasing access to shared resources and building framework for future shared documentation applications.

Maintained corporate web site. Fast turnaround of Human Resource requests enabled job postings to be quickly filled, reducing downtime for dependent groups.
Certified Repair / Support Technician

S&S Automotive

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

Troubleshooted and repaired damaged or defective cellular handsets, processing warranty claims when applicable. Provided technical support to non-technical sales staff and customers by explaining complex things in a simple, straightforward manner, increasing the quality of customer support.

Brian Duchek’s Education

William Rainey Harper College

Certificate , Web Development , September 2000 — May 2002

*Grade Point Average: 4.0
*Focus of studies: XHTML, JAVA, Visual Basic, Web Project Management and Internet Architecture
DePaul University

Bachelors of Science , Sound Recording Technology , August 1993 — April 1998

*Grade Point Average: 3.0
*Sound Recording Technology Major, Microelectronics Minor
*Presidential Scholarship and Music Performance Scholarship Recipient

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Brian Duchek’s Interests:

big ideas, new technology, startups, good design, life-long learning, hiking, yoga, thunderstorms, aurora borealis, gadgets, wireless networking, good coffee