Doug Stringham

Current

• Art Manager, Interaction Design (IxD) at Close To My Heart
• Adjunct Instructor, American Sign Language & Deaf Studies at Utah Valley University
• American Sign Language Interpreter, Instructor, Consultant, and Translator at Independent Contractor

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Past

• Senior Designer at Stephen Hales Creative, inc.
• Art Director at Home Financial Network, Inc.
• Graphic Designer at Covey Leadership Center

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Education

• Brigham Young University
• Brigham Young University

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Doug Stringham’s Experience

• Art Manager, Interaction Design (IxD)

  Close To My Heart

  (Privately Held; Arts and Crafts industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  Art and interaction design manager for corporate in-house creative services group. Current work includes:
  • information architecture
  • user experience and user interface design
  • usability for web-based campaigns and initiatives
  
  Past projects include art direction and design/production of tri-annual catalog and management of corporate branding and identity initiatives.

• Adjunct Instructor, American Sign Language & Deaf Studies

  Utah Valley University

  (Higher Education industry)

  1995 — Present (14 years )

  Thirteen years professional teaching experience in a collegiate environment. (August 2000–present) Instruct third- and fourth-year American Sign Language interpreting courses (specialized cultural and anthropological skills):
  • introduction to the interpreting field
  • cross-cultural communication theories and application
  • consecutive interpreting (Colonomos Model and D/C Theory)
  • simultaneous interpreting

• American Sign Language Interpreter, Instructor, Consultant, and Translator

  Independent Contractor

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1992 — Present (17 years )

  Utah State QA/Level III (Master) American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreting Certificate holder.
  Skills/experience include near-native fluency, seventeen years of bidirectional ASL/English interpretation and transliteration. Certificate maintenance includes 60+ triennial hours of professional development. Past employment and client list includes:
  • Utah State Department of Education
  • Brigham Young University
  • Utah Valley State College
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
  • contract freelance services to dozens of national & community businesses and agencies

• Senior Designer

  Stephen Hales Creative, inc.

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

  1998 — 2005 (7 years )

  Research, strategic development, conceptualization, creative and art direction, design, writing, production, and management of corporate branding and identity, collateral, advertising, publication, and Internet-based projects for diverse national client base. Managed and oversaw junior design staff. Art director for LDS Living, Tahiti Tradewinds, and America's Freedom Festival magazines.
  
  Local and national client work for American Diabetes Association (packaging), Ameritech (user interface design), Ancestry.com (corporate identity and integrated marketing campaign), Brigham Young University (identity, Internet), Franklin Covey (international catalogs), HyClone (collateral, catalog, advertising), MyFamily.com (identity), Neighborhood Housing Services (annual report), and Novell (publications).

• Art Director

  Home Financial Network, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1999 — October 1999 (3 months)

  Managed and directed in-house junior and senior design staff as well as provided conceptualization, design, and art direction on Internet sites for financial institutions. Helped develop company Internet site workflow process. Helped reorganize and develop creative services management system. Developed, implemented, and managed job tracking system for creative services organization. Projects included redesign of WebBank (proprietary financial transactional prototype) for deployment on Internet and Palm platforms. Client list included Banco Popular, Emigrant Bank, Old Kent Bank, and National City Bank.

• Graphic Designer

  Covey Leadership Center

  (Design industry)

  1993 — 1998 (5 years )

Doug Stringham’s Education

• Brigham Young University

  MS , Instructional Psychology and Technology , 2005 — 2009

  Research and course work assignments focusing on
  1) integration of small multiples in instructional designs
  2) visual design grammars, languages, and models in instructional design approaches
  3) next-generation instructional design approaches towards signed language interpretation education.

• Brigham Young University

  BFA , Graphic Design , 1988 — 1995

Additional Information

Doug Stringham’s Groups:

Interaction Design Association (IxDA), Utah Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Utah Graphic Artists Forum
•    VizThink
•    User Experience
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    AIGA | the professional association for design
•    BYU-Graphic Design
•    AIGA Salt Lake City
•    Graphic Design Professional Group
•    Utah Apple Users Group
•    BYU Graphic Design BFA Alumni
•    Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

Doug Stringham’s Honors:

Winner, American Inhouse Design Award; 2006

Awards of Merit, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)/SLC 100 Show; 2004 (double winner), 2001, 2000, 1998

Art Director, “Fire in the Bones”; featured in Society of Illustrators 2004 Traveling Show

Bronze Award, Poster Category; 1993 Utah Intercollegiate Design Show

Honorable Mention; 1992 Wolf Trap Preservation Jazz Festival Poster Competition

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