Dan Defenbaugh

Digital Strategy Director at Digitaria

Greater San Diego Area

Current
  • Digital Strategy Director at Digitaria
Past
  • User Experience Director at 212 Interactive
  • Director of User Experience at Digitaria
  • Director of Multimedia at Digitaria
  • Multimedia Designer at Digitaria
Education
  • University of California, San Diego
Connections
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Industry
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Dan Defenbaugh’s Summary

Experienced user-centered design manager focused on defining and creating interactive systems based on best practices, user research and business requirements.

Dan Defenbaugh’s Specialties:

web technologies, interaction design, visual design, information architecture, flash development, html development


Dan Defenbaugh’s Experience

  • Digital Strategy Director

    Digitaria

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

    May 2008Present (5 months)

    Work closely with client and multi-disciplinary project teams to discover and define strategy for interactive experiences. Combine business requirements and user research to provide a strategic perspective for project decisions. Involved throughout the project to ensure all deliverables are centered on the defined strategy.

  • User Experience Director

    212 Interactive

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

    September 2007May 2008 (9 months)

    Define and create interactive systems based on best practices, user research and business requirements.

  • Director of User Experience

    Digitaria

    (Internet industry)

    June 2006September 2007 (1 year 4 months)

    Oversee a team of talented user experience designers with whom I define and create interactive systems based on best practices, user research and business requirements.

  • Director of Multimedia

    Digitaria

    (Internet industry)

    January 2002June 2006 (4 years 6 months)

    Oversee the design and development of interactive elements, primarily for online projects.

  • Multimedia Designer

    Digitaria

    (Internet industry)

    October 1999January 2002 (2 years 4 months)

    Design and develop interactive elements for online and CD-ROM projects.


Dan Defenbaugh’s Education

  • University of California, San Diego

    Visual Arts Media, Film, Video, Computer Science, Photography, Electronic Music, 19951999

    Activities and Societies:
    Driving around looking for parking, dodging falling tree branches in windy weather, explaining to others what Visual Arts Media means, explaining to others that yes UCSD has a Visual Arts department

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Dan Defenbaugh’s Interests:

science fiction, new media, technology, interaction design, nintendo, modernism, Apple


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