Donald Burnett

Current

• Designer/Developer at UXMagic.com (a branded service of DonBurnett.com)
• User Experience and Interactive Designer/Developer at www.DonBurnett.com (Self-employed)
• Founder and Presentation Content Coordinator at MichiganInteractiveDesigners.org

• Software and Multimedia Development at TrueMedia Services (Self-employed)

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Past

• Phizzpop.com Moderator/Content Contributor at Murphy & Associates for and at Microsoft Corporation
• Technology Evangelist/ Smart Client Team Project Manager at The 9thXchange, Inc.
• Contract Webmaster at HunterPersonnel.net

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Education

• Eastern Michigan University
• Web Development Training
• Multimedia Developer Training

• University of Michigan
• Ypsilanti High School

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Recommended

10 people have recommended Donald

Connections

316 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Donald Burnett’s Summary

20 + yrs experience with a focus on user-centered design for rich internet/interactive applications consulting. Solid understanding of the benefits and limitations of Internet technologies (Silverlight, Flash, Java, WPF/SIlverlight CSS, XHTML). Experience supervising creative resources, mentoring designers and developers.

Team player with excellent organization, communication and presentation skills.

Specialties:
• UI Design
• Branding
• Fluent in the suite of creative software for both web and print and Rich Internet Application platforms.
• Experience leading the design and development of Flash based projects.
• Sound Design
• Art Direction for Video and Animation (CD/DVD)
• Photography (Product and Lifestyle) and Video
• Programming WPF/Silverlight in C#/VB.NET
• Multi-touch UX Design and Development with WPF 4, and Microsoft Surface
• Windows Azure Cloud Application Development

Internet Tools
ASP.NET, Visual Studio 2008, Java, XHTML, CSS, XML, XAML, HTML, Microsoft Expression Studio, Dreamweaver, Flash, PHP, MySQL, Project, MS-Office (all versions)

Languages
C#, VB.NET,Java and JScript, Ruby, Python, C++

OS & Servers
Micorosoft SQL Server, Oracle, Windows Server, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7, DOS, Unix, IIS,. NET 3.5x, SharePoint, MacOS X, Amiga OS, MS-Surface, Windows Azure

Graphics Design
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, LiveMotion, Acrobat, Flash , Freehand, Fireworks , Dreamweaver, TrueSpace, 3D Studio Max, Microsoft Expression Design, Microsoft Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Media Encoder, Microsoft Silverlight

Education
Eastern Michigan University (Ypsilanti) - 3 years of study completed (Communications Technology Program)

Developer Certifications and Training
Microsoft Expression M.V.P. 2008-2009
Multimedia Developer Training - Microsoft - October 1994
Microsoft Sitebuilder 1996
Direct3D and HLSL Training - Seattle, WA 2003
Microsoft Partner Program member since 2005

Donald Burnett’s Specialties:

Telecom, and games development, marketing, brand creation, web design development, CD/DVD design/ development, UI Design , Fluent in RIA (Rich Internet Application) platforms. Experience leading Flash projects, WPF and Silverlight projects. Sound Design, Art Direction for video and animation. Photography (product and lifestyle). Multi-touch application design and development with Microsoft Surface and WPF 4.0, and Windows Azure cloud services development.

Donald Burnett’s Experience

• Designer/Developer

  UXMagic.com (a branded service of DonBurnett.com)

  (Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  User Interface and User Experience Designer Developer
  
  Services Offered:
  XAML, WPF, and Silverlight- Custom Control Development
  XAML, WPF, and Silverlight- Control Design and Styling
  XAML, WPF, and Silverlight- Site Design
  XAML, WPF, and Silverlight- Training Classes
  
  SHAREPOINT, ASP.NET, and LAMP Design, Development and Training
  
  Flash to Silverlight Conversion including video transcoding in VC-1 and H.264, MPEG-2

• User Experience and Interactive Designer/Developer

  www.DonBurnett.com (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  User Experience Designer and Interactive Designer/Developer, assisting with creation of the Armory Arts Interactive Design consultancy.

• Founder and Presentation Content Coordinator

  MichiganInteractiveDesigners.org

  (Internet industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Responsibilities include: scheduling and development of monthly presentation content and meeting scheduling for not-for-profit group, interactive design educational material production.
  
  Areas of interactive design expertise includes Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and WPF/E (Windows Presentation Everywhere), Adobe Flex and Adobe "Apollo"and Flash Rich Internet Applications. XML, XAML, MXML, ASP.NET, AJAX, keyframe and tweened animation in 2D and 3D.

• Software and Multimedia Development

  TrueMedia Services (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Software Development and Strategic planning for internet and PC development, Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Multimedia creative services development and deployment. Software planning and testing. Server development, planning, implementation and scalable services development. SQL database planning, implementation and deployment. XAML/WinFX user interface development.

Donald Burnett’s Education

• Eastern Michigan University

  1986 — 2006

• Web Development Training

  1996 — 1996

• Multimedia Developer Training

  1994 — 1994

• University of Michigan

• Ypsilanti High School

Additional Information

Donald Burnett’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Blog

Donald Burnett’s Honors:

Ann Arbor News Article, Business Section Front page for HarmonyCOM, Inc. October, 2000