Jonathan Woolson

Current

• Webmaster at SUNY Fredonia
• Freelance Designer at thinkplaydesign (Self-employed)
• Book layout & design at Peachpit Press

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Past

• Senior Multimedia Designer at StorageTek / Sun Microsystems
• Associate Designer at Macworld
• Document production artist at Quark

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Education

• Alfred University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Company

Jonathan Woolson’s Summary

Apply my diverse experience in graphic design, Web publishing, programming, information design, editing, and writing to develop Web sites that are engaging, accessible, and easy to maintain.

Jonathan Woolson’s Specialties:

Web design, project management, brand & identity

Jonathan Woolson’s Experience

• Webmaster

  SUNY Fredonia

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

  Formal roles:
  - University Webmaster
  - Chair, SUNY Fredonia Web Steering committee
  
  Responsibilities:
  - manage and design web architecture for the university's 20,000+ page web site
  - support all web visitors and users -- 5,500 students, 1,000 faculty and staff, and 200 campus web authors
  - manage online brand development
  - provide development, training, and tech support for campus web authors using OmniUpdate Campus WCM.
  - refine web usability and campus information architecture
  - accessibility programming
  
  Technical:
  - OmniUpdate Campus is the primary web content manager (WCM) used by the 200+ campus web authors
  - secondary production WCM frameworks include DotNetNuke, custom PHP, Drupal, and SquareSpace.
  
  www.fredonia.edu average monthly site traffic for 2008:
  - 600K avg. monthly visits
  - 120K monthly absolute unique visitors
  - 1.3M monthly page views

• Freelance Designer

  thinkplaydesign (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)

  July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)

  Create design and branding for web and print. Technical editing and writing. Book layout and design.

• Book layout & design

  Peachpit Press

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years)

  Composer on all editions of Jim Heid's "Macintosh iLife" and "Sell it on eBay", a few Real World and Hands-on-Training titles, and design and template work.

• Senior Multimedia Designer

  StorageTek / Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; STK; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2000 — July 2004 (4 years 3 months)

  Created interactive marketing materials in corporate brand for DVD and CD-ROM, including web, 3-D, animation, and video.
  
  Designed and developed intranet Web sites.

• Associate Designer

  Macworld

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  February 1998 — April 2000 (2 years 3 months)

  Designed feature story layouts. Created templates for the magazine's
  mid-2000 redesign.

• Document production artist

  Quark

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 1994 — February 1997 (2 years 6 months)

  - Produced product manuals, marketing materials, product boxes, and newsletters

Jonathan Woolson’s Education

• Alfred University

  BFA , Multimedia/Studio Art , 1987 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Gallery director, radio station DJ, theatre, student orchestra

Additional Information

Jonathan Woolson’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Company

Jonathan Woolson’s Interests:

technology, linguistics, design, sustainable architecture, history, music, art, ...heck, all the Muses, really...