User Experience and Interaction Specialist Designing for Microsoft SharePoint
Greater New York City Area
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- Senior Partner and Consultant at Solution Builders LLC
- Senior Solutions Architect at Computer Generated Solutions
- Senior Solutions Architect at CGS
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- User Experience Designer, Business Analyst and Information Architecture Consultant at Shearman & Sterling
- User Experience Consultant at JWT
- Independent Consultant at Impact Management
- Art Director at Advisor Products Inc.
- Graphic Designer at AdvisorSites, Inc.
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Christopher Arella’s Summary
User Experience/Interaction Specialist with a formal background in Graphic Design, usability, User-centric design, Information Architecture, and Business Analysis. Currently focused on consulting for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. A rare blend of both creative and technical abilities encompassing all phases of UI design and implementation following industry-standard best practices. From gathering business requirements, analyzing, and organizing information, to styling, skinning, theming, and customizing user experiences; forward thinking and leading-edge techniques are a part of everyday use.
Christopher Arella’s Specialties:
User-Experience (UX), User-Interaction (UI), User-centric design (UCD), Information Architecture (IA), Business Analysis (BA), SharePoint Administration and Configuration, Branding, Identity, Web Content Management (WCM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Document Management (DM), Knowledge Management (KM), Master Pages, Layouts, CSS, XHTML, HTML, ASPX, JavaScript, usability, CSS, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Sharepoint Designer, Microsoft Visual Studio, Internet, Intranet, Extranet
Christopher Arella’s Experience
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Senior Partner and Consultant
Solution Builders LLC
(Computer Software industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Chris is an independent consultant focused on creating solutions and rich user experiences for businesses though well designed information architecture and interfaces. His specialties include Microsoft's SharePoint and related Microsoft technologies.
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Senior Solutions Architect
Computer Generated Solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
User Experience/Interaction Specialist with a formal background in Graphic Design, usability, Information Architecture, and Business Analysis. Currently focused on consulting for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. From gathering business requirements, analyzing, and organizing information, to customizing the user experience through the development of design compositions, graphics, Master Pages, Layouts, and CSS.
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Senior Solutions Architect
CGS
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
User Experience/Interaction Specialist with a formal background in Graphic Design, usability, Information Architecture, and Business Analysis. Currently focused on consulting for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. From gathering business requirements, analyzing, and organizing information, to customizing the user experience through the development of design compositions, graphics, Master Pages, Layouts, and CSS.
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User Experience Designer, Business Analyst and Information Architecture Consultant
Shearman & Sterling
(Partnership; Law Practice industry)
February 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 4 months)
Consulted and Designed the UI for the Shearman & Sterling internal Intranet built upon Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server. It was successfully was rolled out to over 3000 users world-wide and has gained wide-spread acceptance amongst the users and partners. The work involved recommendations regarding best practices, design mock-ups, and implementation of graphics, master pages, layouts, and CSS. I was later brought back to help out doing some business analysis and IA for integrating some custom applications into their SharePoint Intranet.
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User Experience Consultant
JWT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPP; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2007 — December 2007 (9 months)
Designing the web site UI and consulting for a secure Sharepoint extranet using MOSS 2007 for JWTwo (division of JWT). The work involves recommendations regarding best practices, design mock-ups, and implementation of graphics, master pages, layouts, and CSS.
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Independent Consultant
Impact Management
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
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Art Director
Advisor Products Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2003 — January 2007 (4 years 1 month)
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Graphic Designer
AdvisorSites, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2000 — January 2003 (3 years 1 month)
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Christopher Arella’s Interests:
Art, Design, personal and professional development, personal and professional networking, usability standards, travel, digital photography, working on my car, racing (auto), paintball
Christopher Arella’s Groups:
SharePoint Users Group
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NY SharePoint User Group
Christopher Arella’s Honors:
* Graphics.com editor's pick for Graphic Design, 9/2006
* Graphics.com editor's pick for Logo Design, 9/2006
* Coolhomepages.com Best of the Web, 4/2006
* (DT&G) Design & Publishing (Graphic-Design.com) website of the month, 4/2006
* CreativePublic.com website of the month, 3/2006
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