Chris Pallé

Current

• Owner; User Experience and Interaction Design Contractor at Blue Flame, LLC

Past

• Senior Information Architect at Behavior
• Customer Experience Planner at Bertelsmann Direct North America
• IA/UX Consultant at Behavior

• IA/UX Consultant at BMG Columbia House
• IA/UX Consultant at OgilvyAction
• IA/UX Consultant at TribalDDB
• Pro Fitness Trainer at Town Sports International, Inc. (NYSC Marlboro, NJ)
• Lead Interactive Media/Graphics Designer, Marketing Communications Coordinator at Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.
• Graphics Designer at Calvary Chapel Old Bridge
• Lead Interactive Designer/Author, Information Architect at Lanmark Group, Inc.
• Director, Web Administration at Living Abroad Publishing
• Production Assistant at O’Plenty Animation Studio
• Web Page Designer at Brookdale Community College

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Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology
• Brookdale Community College
• McClintock High School

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Industry

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Chris Pallé’s Summary

Creative, motivated, accomplished Interactive Media professional with over a decade of experience in conceptualizing, designing, and delivering optimized solutions that effectively meet clients’ goals. Recognized for excellence in building and maintaining friendly rapport for productive working relationships with both clients and staff.

Chris Pallé’s Specialties:

{human} Experience Design
Information Architecture
Concept Prototyping and Wireframing
Graphical User Interface Design
Technical Communication
Standards-Compliant Web Authoring
Internet Marketing Strategies
Device Independent, Accessible UI Design

Chris Pallé’s Experience

• Owner; User Experience and Interaction Design Contractor

  Blue Flame, LLC

  (Internet industry)

  October 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Serves as user-advocate throughout entire design process;
  
  Interviews stakeholders to establish and document project scope and business requirements;
  
  Produces IA deliverables such as personae, site blueprints, wireframes, user interface prototypes, design specifications, user experience flows, and functional requirements;
  
  Performs heuristic evaluations of existing applications to find successful aspects to build on as well as propose revisions where needed;
  
  Utilizes expert hands-on xHTML/CSS authoring skills to produce standards-based HTML wireframes and prototypes;

• Senior Information Architect

  Behavior

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

• Customer Experience Planner

  Bertelsmann Direct North America

  (Internet industry)

  May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

• IA/UX Consultant

  Behavior

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — May 2008 (2 months)

• IA/UX Consultant

  BMG Columbia House

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — 2008 (1 year)

• IA/UX Consultant

  OgilvyAction

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)

• IA/UX Consultant

  TribalDDB

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  February 2007 — May 2007 (4 months)

• Pro Fitness Trainer

  Town Sports International, Inc. (NYSC Marlboro, NJ)

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  NASM Certified Personal Trainer - nasm.org
  
  Design and implement fitness program designs that successfully meet client health and fitness goals.
  
  Coach and educate clients on proper use of the body including diaphragmatic breathing and engaging the core to perform exercises that make workouts more effective and achieve a more efficient use of time.

• Lead Interactive Media/Graphics Designer, Marketing Communications Coordinator

  Blonder Tongue Laboratories, Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; BDR; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  March 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 4 months)

  Performed interviews with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements, and develop scope and project deliverables;
  
  Produced deliverables such as site blueprints, wireframes, user interface prototypes, and user experience process flows;
  
  Created UI design visuals aligned with corporate branding identity strategies through fluent usage of Photoshop and Illustrator. (tvchannelblocker.com);
  
  Hand coded designs into accessible (WCAG/WAI), device independent sites using W3C standards-based CSS/xHTML.
  
  Provided creative direction, illustration, and design skills to support marketing strategies for online and offline campaigns;
  
  Interfaced product managers and executive staff to present creative initiatives and production schedules;
  
  Using various Web-based technologies, architected, built, and maintained custom Web applications for corporate product literature that integrated with Quark and InDesign workflows.

• Graphics Designer

  Calvary Chapel Old Bridge

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  August 2004 — January 2005 (6 months)

  Reported to Pastoral Staff to update church bulletin and create graphic design for tape packaging.

• Lead Interactive Designer/Author, Information Architect

  Lanmark Group, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Persuaded executive management to engineer a custom, modular Content Management System for clients’ Web applications and in turn, Lanmark could market the system to cover development costs;
  
  Key liaison between technical and creative staff to translate requirements and business goals into messaging, site navigation, labels and content organization on the user interface;
  
  Performed interviews with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements, and develop scope and project deliverables;
  
  Produced deliverables such as site blueprints, wireframes, user interface prototypes, and user experience process flows;
  
  Using HTML and CSS, authored and revamped multiple Web sites, an entire client extranet system (hosting all clients), and multiple intranet components.

• Director, Web Administration

  Living Abroad Publishing

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

  January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Conceptualized, designed, developed, and optimized interfaces for Content Management Systems and business communication systems for Fortune 500 clientele such as Philip Morris, UBS, Merill Lynch, CitiGroup, KPMG, Berlitz International;
  
  Collaborated and managed interdepartmental projects with multiple reports

• Production Assistant

  O’Plenty Animation Studio

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  August 1997 — December 1997 (5 months)

  Provided animation assistance including rendering, cell cleanup, and frame sequencing for award-winning cartoons

• Web Page Designer

  Brookdale Community College

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1996 — December 1996 (5 months)

  Assisted department professors with creating Web pages for the ceramics students. Duties included: HTML scripting, digital photography, graphic optimization

Chris Pallé’s Education

• Rochester Institute of Technology

  Bachelors of Applied Arts and Science, Graphic Arts, eBusiness, Technical Communications, 2000 — 2003

  I completed this degree in an online, distance learning format. Graduating with a 3.4 GPA, this experience gave me the ability to work proficiently in a telecommuting arrangement. It was a challenging and rewarding experience that I would never trade in for the on-campus lifestyle.

• Brookdale Community College

  AA, Computer Art and Design, 1995 — 2001

• McClintock High School

  High School Diploma, 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Chris Pallé’s Groups:

IAI (Information Architecture Institute), UPA (Usability Professionals Association), IxDA (Interaction Design Association), CooperBricolage

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Boxes and Arrows
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    Bertelsmann Global Network - Let's Connect
•    Refresh - Promoting design, technology,and usability.
•    NextWeb | NY Web 2.0 Meetup
•    Web Standards Design + Development

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