Creative Director at IJHANA
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Creative Director at IJHANA
- Contract Web Developer & Designer at Juxtaflo Web Design Studio
- Principal at David Martinez Photography
- Owner at Future Front Web Design
- Past
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- Senior Graphic Designer at Pictage
- Associate Art Director at IGE
- Contract Web & Graphic Designer at Gamefly.com
- Web & Graphic Designer at LegalZoom.com
- Multimedia Designer at Dynamics Direct
- Web Design Consultant at Prosum
- Graphic Designer at RFX / Silicon Grail
- Education
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- Art Center College of Design
- Los Angeles Trade Technical
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David Martinez’s Summary
Web Designer and Event Photographer
Interactive Design Experience: home page designs, redesigns, banners, modules, 'tools', buttons, wire-frames, sitemaps and user interface work
Print solutions include: folders, one sheets, direct mailers, business cards and letterhead and even large format booth graphics
I am accustomed to working with CEOs, CTOs, Sole Proprietors, Partners and CFO / Financial people. Most of my experience has been with internet companies. I have consulted professionally, worked in house and also worked as a remote contractor. I am currently working for Pictage.
Tools Include: Windows XP, OS X, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, XHTML, Javascript, CSS, Flash, MS Office and over 30 other utilities for fonts, audio, video and more
David Martinez’s Specialties:
XHTML authoring, CSS, Javascript, Flash Authoring and coding, Image Optimization, Wireframe creation and execution, sitemaps, logic files, User Interface Optimization, Digital Photography, Audio Editing, High Level Strategy with Company Leaders.
David Martinez’s Experience
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Creative Director
IJHANA
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Working on an enterprise level e-commerce redesign with an amazing a-list team.
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Contract Web Developer & Designer
Juxtaflo Web Design Studio
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Assisting principals with various interactive projects. Verticals: education, marketing, the arts, accounting and transportation. Strong focus on web accessibility. Initial exposure and traction with Drupal Content Management Systems (CMS).
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Principal
David Martinez Photography
(Fine Art industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Lead photographer for wedding and event business in Southern California, and more specifically Long Beach.
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Owner
Future Front Web Design
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)
2002 — Present (7 years )
Currently working on two site designs, a corporate ID project, a Flash branding animation for an SEM company, online games, and building a frame work for CSS layouts based on good web standards and usability (I'm also modularizing the components with CSS and SSI - simple work but super effective!)
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Senior Graphic Designer
Pictage
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Photography industry)
March 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Working on converting large static site into dynamic site to support a large community of photographers. Site must be able to sustain video, podcasts, commenting and photo galleries using open source solutions.
Other cool tidbits: Tradeshow graphics, t-shirts, collateral and micro-site work. I'm a huge fan of SSI, Photoshop, Vision before starting projects and good old R&D which I am able to apply to this position. Solving some really great problems by blending some art with engineering!
I also have some experience WAMPing PCs, that is to say creating LAMP environments with Apache, PHP, and MySQL. I used this technique to serve an internal company blog and wiki. -
Associate Art Director
IGE
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)
July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)
Building and managing multiple brands, applying wireframes and sitemap concepts to existing sites, improving user experience through design and site paths with strong expectation management...also managing the creation of online ads as well as email communications (emails, upsells, etc.)
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Contract Web & Graphic Designer
Gamefly.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
Designed banner ads, page modules, title graphics, email templates. Charged with basic page structure coding for emails with inlined CSS and table based layouts. Modified Photoshop Action Scripts to help automate populating site with available games (cover art). There I learned much about marketing to game console users.
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Web & Graphic Designer
LegalZoom.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Legal Services industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years )
Title, module, banner & button graphics. New layouts such as 'login' & and 'confirmation' were designed by me. Both pages boasted great ROI, as we made them easier to read & use (up sells on the confirmation was another concept we worked on successfully). I also created printed collateral for LegalZoom such as one sheets, a really nice folder and business cards for Proxilaw, and two Booth Designs for trade shows.
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Multimedia Designer
Dynamics Direct
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Worked on Interactive Flash Campaigns that were embedded into emails, files contained animation, variables, and data base driven custom audio and also 'stated' the email recievers first name in the audio. We built campaigns for Microsoft, Autodesk, EarthLink and many other large companies.
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Web Design Consultant
Prosum
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Started web design division for Prosum Information Technologies in El Segundo CA. Worked on designing a scalable global E-Commerce site for international goods. Worked with developement team as well as working on site with clients.
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Graphic Designer
RFX / Silicon Grail
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Worked in a creative capacity to help promote Chalice compositing software through print work (hollywood fx magazine placement) as well as providing support for software UI, which included custom icons and much more. Also worked on an 'intranet' before there were even 'intranets' using Apache Web Server and Dreamweaver when it was barely in version 2.
David Martinez’s Education
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Art Center College of Design
Graphic Design 1994 — 1998
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Los Angeles Trade Technical
1994 — 1997
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David Martinez’s Interests:
cell phones, laptops, video online, movies, spinning, lap swimming, skateboarding, volley ball, working on the a few pro bono non profit websites
David Martinez’s Groups:
Lynda.com alumni, LATTC Creative Board Member
David Martinez’s Honors:
Too many to list!
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