Jason Cranford Teague

Current

Sr. Design Manager at Marriott International
Principal at Bright Eye Media
Author at Pearson Education

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Past

Director of Web Design Standards at AOL Programming
Creative Director at AOL RED
Senior UI Designer at AOL

Interface Designer at Bank of America
Senior Information Architect at Lante
Senior Information Architect at iXL
Web Designer at Persimmon IT
Technical Writer at IBM - MWave

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Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
UNC Charlotte
Kingston University

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Jason Cranford Teague’s Summary

Jason is a designer, writer and teacher, who helps people creatively apply technology to build a positive future. He has over 15 years of experience in the online world, starting in 1994 when he designed the first Web based magazine, "Computer Mediated Communications." More recently, he has worked with the W3C CSS Workgroup, Yuri's Night: The World Space Party (www.yurisnight.net) and was the Director of Web Design Standards for AOL/MediaGlow.

Jason's books on interactive, print, video and photographic design include the best Selling CSS, DHTML, and Ajax and Final Cut Pro and The Art of Filmmaking. His most recent book, Speaking In Styles: The Fundementals of CSS for Web Designers, is available now. His next book, Fluid Web Typography, will be published in fall 2009.

http://www.speakerrate.com/speakers/3072-jasonspeaking

Jason Cranford Teague’s Specialties:

Web Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, Visual Design, Video Editing, Technical Writing, Creative Writing

Jason Cranford Teague’s Experience

Sr. Design Manager

Marriott International

(Public Company; MAR; Hospitality industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

I am responsible for overseeing the visual design of marriott.com (a top 10 ecommerce web sites) and related properties.
Principal

Bright Eye Media

(Internet industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

Freelance designer. Provide a wide range of strategy and Internet consulting services to clients including The Ansari X-Prize (designed intranet for corporate donors), Yuri's Night (design community Web site to register parties hosted around the world), Blake's 7 (built Web site for revival of British TV cult classic). This work includes all graphic and user interface design and development.
Author

Pearson Education

(Public Company; Writing and Editing industry)

1998 — Present (11 years )

Wrote the books:
DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web
DHTML and CSS Advanced

Contributed to the books:
Dreamweaver MX Magic
XML, HTML, XHTML Magic
Director of Web Design Standards

AOL Programming

(Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

September 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 7 months)

As a member of the AOL Global Programming Team, the Director of Web Design Standards promotes web application and content development tools, technologies, and best-practices techniques to visual designers, UI designers, Web technologists, web application developers, and web content authors developing solutions for AOL Programming.
Creative Director

AOL RED

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

April 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 6 months)

I am responsible for the day to day creative operations for the AOL teen channel (RED) and will be working to bring RED to the Internet.
Senior UI Designer

AOL

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

April 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Worked as a consultant to redesign various "channels" in the eCommerce division of the popular ISP and Web destination. Projects have included Automobile, Travel, and Careers. Responsibilities include site-mapping, story-boards, visual comps, and wire-frames.
Interface Designer

Bank of America

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

2003 — 2005 (2 years )

Worked as a consultant redesigning user interface for Intranet used by over 12,000 employees. Tasks included Web site strategy, site maps, storyboarding, visual comps, graphic design, wire frames, user testing, HTML prototyping and design documentation.
Senior Information Architect

Lante

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Provided a wide range of strategy and Internet consulting services to companies including IBM (created Knowledge Management System), AON (designed user interface for insurance Client Tracking on-line application), and GreenDex (created an online horticultural marketplace). In addition to production work, I served as the Creative Lead on multiple projects, regularly managing groups of 4-8 employees, including budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation.
Senior Information Architect

iXL

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Provided a wide range of strategy and Internet consulting services to companies including Synovus (created an online bank), DuPont (prototyped marketing Web site for Stainmaster Carpet), Virgin (prototyped design for major online shopping site), Coca-Cola (created extranet for top 35 Hip-hop DJ's in US), Kodak (prototyped user interface for photo searching system), BellSouth (redesigned primary Web site and redesigned ISP registration process), The Technology Association of Georgia (designed online Web presence), WebMD (created final prototype and first two versions of popular medical resource). In addition to production work, I served as the Creative Lead on multiple projects, regularly managing groups of 4-8 employees, including budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation.
Web Designer

Persimmon IT

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Technical Writer

IBM - MWave

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Jason Cranford Teague’s Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS , Technical Communication , 1994 — 1996
UNC Charlotte

BA , English, Visual Art , 1986 — 1992

Activities and Societies:

The Guild, Sci-fi, Fencing, Amnesty International, International Club
Kingston University

English, Visual Art 1990 — 1991

Exchange Student

Activities and Societies:

Sci-fi, fencing, RPG