Doug Levi

Current

• Associate eMarketing Manager at W.W. Grainger, Inc.

Past

• Senior Web Designer/Customer Experience Consultant at Hewitt Associates
• Graphic Designer at Raymond Design Group
• Graphic Designer at SGDP

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Education

• Northern Illinois University
• Niles North High School

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Industry

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Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Doug Levi’s Summary

Highly creative and multi-talented graphic designer with wide expertise in both Web and print design.

– Focused on branding, customer experience, information architecture, usability, and human factors.

– Skilled in understanding client requirements, and translating them into user-friendly Web prototypes using extensive technical abilities.

– Dynamic team player with well-developed written and verbal communication skills.

Doug Levi’s Specialties:

Customer experience, information architecture, interface design,
front-end web development, usability, HTML, JavaScript and CSS

Doug Levi’s Experience

• Associate eMarketing Manager

  W.W. Grainger, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Senior Web Designer/Customer Experience Consultant

  Hewitt Associates

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HEW; Human Resources industry)

  June 1999 — December 2006 (7 years 7 months)

  Directed information architecture, visual design/branding, and overall customer experience (CE) of HR outsourcing (HRO) Web site for Fortune 500 companies within Hewitt's creative design and human factors department.
  
  – Supervised design team in the creation of the overall concept, brand, design, and information architecture for multi-million dollar HRO Web site.
  
  – Facilitated requirements meetings with subject matter experts to create a product that meets the needs of the business, client, and end user.
  
  – Worked with business analysts to understand and gather requirements/use case scenarios to create intuitive and efficient prototypes used for functional specifications and development.
  
  – Streamlined the design/development process by creating a reusable suite of HTML and Cascading Style Sheets. Files were leveraged by designers, production specialists, and development resources, and used across all HRO Web site implementations.

• Graphic Designer

  Raymond Design Group

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

  Created concepts and designs within a variety of media while working closely with design team.
  
  – Led projects from conception through completion, implementing all facets of creative development, production and pre-press.
  
  – Assisted video direction and art directed production for promotional video.
  
  – Worked on an array of designs for logos, packaging, brochures, catalogs, advertisements, Web sites, and touch-screen applications.

• Graphic Designer

  SGDP

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  1991 — 1996 (5 years)

  Designed an assortment of printed material from original layout through client handoff.
  
  – Ensured all electronic files were output ready, and trained other designers on similar techniques.
  
  – Developed logos, packaging, point-of-purchase displays, brochures, sell sheets, calendars, and baseball cards.
  
  – Art directed photo shoots for products such as water pumps and magnetic ferrite cores.
  
  – Managed computer network, which included set-up and maintenance of file server and over 15 workstations.

Doug Levi’s Education

• Northern Illinois University

  BFA , Visual Communications , August 1988 — May 1991

• Niles North High School

Additional Information

Doug Levi’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Doug Levi’s Groups:

•    Hewitt Associates

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