David Wall

at OurRecruits.com as Principal & EDA

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Principal/Exec Design Architect at OurRecruits.com
  • Owner at davidmwall.com (Self-employed)
Past

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Education
  • Seattle Central Community College
  • Highline Community College
  • South Seattle Community College
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Industry
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David Wall’s Summary

With a strong background in design and print media, I dove head first into the internet world in the early nineties. By the late nineties I was building web sites and working as a freelance graphic designer, before landing a job as art Director for an AV company called TNPro, INC.

In early 2000 I went back to college and studied development and usability. From college I immediately began working heavily as a contractor for companies like Microsoft, Amazon.com, A LivingPicture.com, CostCo, Grist.org, etc.

In Mid 2k I met Stacy Edwards and he called on me to help him with a start up that would help usher high school athletes into college level sports. After a brief meeting with the existing dev., I convinced them to take me on to oversee the design and development and we did a complete re-creation of the web site. Shortly after I came on, I brought on a friend of mine and .NET superstar (Anthony Monaco), to build the back end. Together we worked heavily on the new re-design and eventually Anthony and I came together to create several modules that greatly enhanced the value of the site.

With the new tools, we began to turn heads and gather a great deal of attention. Early in 2009 we picked up IT manager Charlie Lorme to help us negotiate a deal with an ODC.

OurRecruits.com is gaining heavy ground and attention. We are about to release a new level of software that will change how sports recruiting happens world wide.

Look for us online in June of 2010.

David Wall’s Specialties:

UX Design
Information Architecture
Flash
Adobe Creative Suite
Spec reports and scenarios for end to end slide decks.
F.E.D. web
Comprehensive working experience with PHP, .NET, SQL & MySQL
Strong print background.
Icon Design
Technical Illustrator.
Highly creative and constantly expanding skill set.

David Wall’s Experience

  • Principal/Exec Design Architect

    OurRecruits.com

    (Sports industry)

    January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

    Principal/ Design Architect / Creative Direction / Co-Founder

  • Owner

    davidmwall.com (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Internet industry)

    January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

    Web solutions for growing companies

  • XBOX - Web Design

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    June 2009 — September 2009 (4 months)

    Web Design Architect/UX Design - Design micro site - author in refresh of current lips.com 09Sept. Primary responsibilities: fleshing out potential updates and key features for future scope projects. Design architecture and updates to content on test and production sites for .NET. Updating and editing of RESX files to update for loc content. Build design specs and create wireframes and high fidelity screenshots to emulate scenarios...Slide deck and XHTML/CSS editing.

  • Freelance

    Grist

    (Non-Profit; Online Media industry)

    March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

    Web design, XHTML, Javascript, CSS, Graphics, Flash design

  • Flash Designer

    Amazon.com

    (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

    March 2009 — June 2009 (4 months)

    Flash Designer On contract

  • UX design on contract from Aquent

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

    Web Design, Usability studies and application, redlines, Graphic Design, Icon Design, Internal site manager, localization.

  • Technical Illustrator - Contract

    Costco Wholesale

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Design industry)

    March 2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

    Contracted as a Technical Illustrator for Costco in the month of March 2008.

  • Instructor

    Seattle Central Community College

    (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

  • CS PRODUCT DESIGNER 2 at Microsoft - Through AQUENT

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    October 2007 — February 2008 (5 months)

    UX/UI design for software program working in SQL Reporting Services.

    I use: Adobe CS3, VSTS, MS Office 2007, Sharepoint, SQL Server, & Visual Studio 2008.

    Project requires: UX/UI design, Wireframe, Bug Bashing in VSTS, Javascript, .NET, Visual Studio ad hoc reporting. Excellent verbal skills and communication.

  • Contractor

    www.davidmwall.com

    (Design industry)

    2000 — 2008 (8 years )

  • Art Director

    ALivingPicture

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

    Contract Position with company in East Sussex UK. Art Director:
    Create end cap design, illustration and graphics. Flash and product testing. Worked closely with creative director on all design and web work.

  • Creative Director

    DARK PRODUCTIONZ

    (Design industry)

    2003 — 2004 (1 year )

    Web Designer, SEO Management, UX Design and flash. Promotion, Design and consultation. Talent Management, Art Direction

  • Barista

    Starbucks Coffee Company

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SBUX; Retail industry)

    2002 — 2003 (1 year )

    I have over a decade of experience in pulling espresso. I am trained in a more classic Italian pull but have worked for more commercial and American companies in my past. I have loyal fans and take espresso and the barista craft seriously. I enjoy amazing coffee and would never intentionally subject any customers to anything less than perfection. My favorite coffee's seldom come from the big chains...but the smaller houses that maintain better quality control.

  • Art Director

    TNPRO INC.,

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

    October 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 6 months)

    Marketing, Branding, Graphic Design, Layout, Web Graphics, and Flash. Private client consultations, Organize schedule and manage photographers and models in creation of unique stock art. Work with CEO in expanding upon current business ideas and managing our group of companies under the TNPRO Monicker.

David Wall’s Education

  • Seattle Central Community College

    2005 — 2008

    While a double degree is the end goal... I am following a line of technology that will actually improve upon my current active skill set rather than focusing on simply completing college. I believe that in my industry, college will be a life long venture.

    Activities and Societies:
    PHI THETA KAPPA
    TAC committee member as of 2007

  • Highline Community College

    Grpahic Design / Business 1991 — 1992

    Activities and Societies:
    Focused on graphic design business and marketing.

  • South Seattle Community College

    Graphic Design 1990 — 1991

    Activities and Societies:
    Studied graphic design and Production Illustration - Worked as apprentice for in house design department - This is in the days of Ruby Lithe, Hot Wax, and Camera's people... Long time ago.

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David Wall’s Interests:

XML, PHP, FLASH, ROR, Action Script 2/3.0, FLASH, Investing, Martial Arts, Travel, Real estate, Italy, Food, Music.

David Wall’s Groups:

S.C.C.C. Technical Advisory committee member - Status [active]

  •    User Experience
  •    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)

David Wall’s Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa - 2005-present

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