David Wall

Current

• UX Designer at Aquent

Past

• UX design on contract from Aquent at Microsoft
• Technical Illustrator - Contract at Costco Wholesale
• CS PRODUCT DESIGNER 2 at Microsoft - Through AQUENT at Microsoft

• Contractor at www.davidmwall.com
• Art Director at ALivingPicture
• Creative Director at DARK PRODUCTIONZ
• Barista at Starbucks Coffee Company
• Art Director at TNPRO INC.,

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Education

• Seattle Central Community College
• Highline Community College
• South Seattle Community College

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website

David Wall’s Summary

* UX Design
* IA and Design Specs.
* Client Study, Bug Bashing, Research, etc.
* F.E.D. web
* Comprehensive working experience with PHP, .NET, SQL & MySQL
* Strong print background.
* Icon Design
* Technical Illustrator.
* Action Script 3.0 - studying integration of XML in Flash.
* Highly creative and constantly expanding skill set.
* Excellent public speaking abilities.
* Quickly acclimates to any project and not afraid to "jump in"
* Experience in product design and packaging.
* Highly focused on trends in the web and tech markets.
* Understands branding and the importance of maintaining corporate brand within design structure.
* Member of the technical advisory committee for S.C.C.C.
* Member of Phi Theta Kappa W/ S.C.C.C.
* Teach Night Courses in Flash and UX design at S.C.C.C.

David Wall’s Specialties:

UX and Front End Designer (F.E.D.) with highly versed understanding of application development in both open source and proprietary languages. Skilled in flash and Graphic Design utilizing the Adobe CS3 Pro package.

David Wall’s Experience

• UX Designer

  Aquent

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  January 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)

  * UX/UI Designer for contract on both web and software related projects.
  * Icon Design
  * Teaching courses in Flash and UX design @ SCCC summer 08
  * XHTML web Slide Deck and Story Boarding
  * User Flows and IA
  * Wire frames and site architecture.
  * Technical Illustrations
  * Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
  * Project Consultation and IT duties for existing clients.
  * PHP, MySQL development
  * Spec Sheet and Monthly Reporting .

• UX design on contract from Aquent

  Microsoft

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

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• 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.

• 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.

Additional Information

David Wall’s Websites:

• My Website

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]

David Wall’s Honors:

Phi Beta Kappa - 2005-present

David Wall’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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