Web UI Designer/Developer
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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- UI Developer at StashMate
- Web UI Designer/Developer at The Kansas City Star
- Owner at futurehat LLC
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- Interactive Art Director at Bernstein-Rein Advertising
- Graphic Designer at Clickspeed Marketing
- Rich Media Architect at U Inc.
- Graphic/Web Designer at The Covington Group
- Web Designer at Grandfather Clocks Plus, Inc.
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Ian Jennings’s Summary
My goal in life is simple. To make a living doing what I love to do.
Ian Jennings’s Specialties:
Interface Design, web and mobile application design, CSS layout, javascript functionality, information architecture, RSS syndication
Ian Jennings’s Experience
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UI Developer
StashMate
(Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
StashMate.com is the easiest way to keep track of your stuff. If you're moving you can use it to easily track the connection between rooms and boxes then list the contents of those boxes so you can find it later. This is an early stage startup that was formed at Kansas City Startup Weekend.
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Web UI Designer/Developer
The Kansas City Star
(Public Company; Newspapers industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for high-level design and front-end coding for a full redesign of the local news site kansascity.com. The site receives over 30 million page views per month from around 3.3 million unique visitors.
Designs and develop several widgets to fit into the current design of the site to increase usability and visibility of content.
Work with large groups of editors and managers to organize and conceptualize content for the redesign process.
Concepts, designs and codes layouts and skins for social networking platforms.
Supports web editors on a daily basis with graphics and code. -
Owner
futurehat LLC
(Internet industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)
futurehat provides innovative ideas through simplicity, specializing in highly usable web design and development. My duties include:
interactive brand development
user experience research and design
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Interactive Art Director
Bernstein-Rein Advertising
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — March 2008 (10 months)
Worked on a team of interactive art directors delivering banner ads, emails and landing pages for direct marketing customers such as Time Warner Cable, McDonald's and USAA.
Created a multitude of animated flash banners and gained experience with online advertising standards.
Gained experience with advertising email standards and code requirements.
Developed an XML based production management system for landing pages and emails to enable faster turnaround times.
Created flash demos for business pitches that emulated the actions of proposed websites. -
Graphic Designer
Clickspeed Marketing
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Designed and coded many small sites with large lead forms for the financial industry.
Learned to keep a focus on moving consumers forward through a site and devised ways to keep them from getting bogged down.
Created several print marketing pieces and promotional videos. -
Rich Media Architect
U Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
I was responsible for many tasks ranging from corporate re-branding to product design to audio and video recording and editing. I learned a lot about the branding process while in this position and gained a new found love for interface and product design.
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Graphic/Web Designer
The Covington Group
(Internet industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year)
As a designer at The Covington Group I worked on several web projects for large clients. I designed implemented a CMS based site for The Military Vehicle Preservation Association (mvpa.org). I also designed and implemented open source shopping cart systems for several sites.
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Web Designer
Grandfather Clocks Plus, Inc.
(Retail industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Redesigned and developed grandfatherclocksplus.com. Took the site from 500 pages of static product info to a dynamic, database backed index of all products. Enabled searching features and order management through the use of interchange.
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