Lead UX Developer at Cie Studios
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Lead UX Developer at Cie Studios
- Co-founder at Collagr.com
- Director, Interface Design at Break Media - break.com
- Freelance Photographer at Drew Kim Photography (Self-employed)
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- Lead UX Developer at Spark Networks
- Director, Interface Design at Break.com
- Lead UI Developer at McElroy Advertising
- Web Developer at Genex Interactive
- Education
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- California State University-Long Beach - College of Business Administration
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Andy Kim’s Experience
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Lead UX Developer
Cie Studios
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
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Co-founder
Collagr.com
(Internet industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
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Director, Interface Design
Break Media - break.com
(Online Media industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Freelance Photographer
Drew Kim Photography (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Photography industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Got my own camera a little over 3 months ago...can't seem to put it down. Need a photographer for something? View my portfolio (www.drewkim.com) and give me a call.
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Lead UX Developer
Spark Networks
(Public Company; LOV; Internet industry)
June 2009 — November 2009 (6 months)
Responsible for redesigns of multiple SPARK properties from an IA & UI standpoint.
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Director, Interface Design
Break.com
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 11 months)
Responsible for all art direction/user interface work for Break.com. Helped Break.com grow its traffic of a minimum of 50% by focusing on usability rather than pure functionality. What use is functionality if the user is doesn’t know how to use it or even worse, doesn’t realize it’s even there.
Became lead designer for other Break.com properties such as Chickipedia, AllLeftTurns.com and Mademan.com I was responsible in creating a brand image, a friendly interface and coding a front end that was optimized in every way possible. Chickipedia.com became one of the most popular wiki destinations and #5,941 on Alexa.
Worked with a group of talented designers to ensure a clear message as well to entice and engage the user for all initiatives with Break.com and its related properties by creating interface standards.
Worked with the developers in integrating all front-end code with the middle tier and backend.
Integrated frontend with both PHP & .Net
Created, maintained and enforced user interface standards with all Break.com properties.
Managed various projects from beginning to end. For example, MadeMan.com, I wrote a 80+ product requirement document, created the brand, performed much of the design work and manage a team of talented designers, coordinated the front end build with our XHTML vendor, fixed CSS/XHTML issues and help integrate within Drupal with our PHP developers, oversaw the QA process and helped launch it.
Produced innovative ways in viewing videos such as the first online video slow motion functionality and stretchable players.
Responsible for many product development initiatives for all Break.com properties and wrote many product requirement documents including technical/functional specifications.
Developed with various CMS systems such as Wordpress and Drupal.
Designed user interfaces and hand coded templates with knowledge of SEO optimization. H1 tags, alt tags, title tags, meta data and a minimal use of graphic text. -
Lead UI Developer
McElroy Advertising
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2004 — June 2006 (2 years 6 months)
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Web Developer
Genex Interactive
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; MDP; Internet industry)
June 2000 — November 2003 (3 years 6 months)
Andy Kim’s Education
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California State University-Long Beach - College of Business Administration
1996 — 2000
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