Creative Director at Standard Bamboo
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
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- Creative Director at Standard Bamboo
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- Working Interface Group (WIG) Lead at Motorola
- Creative Director at Sillysmart
- Director of Marketing at Ironbuilt Steel Buildings
- Creative Director at Think Technologies
- Education
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- Florida State University
- Boston University
- Pine Crest Preparatory School
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Jose Sierra’s Summary
Professional experience began in graphic design. After several years, accepted management positions within the design industry, including Art and Creative Director.
Moved into development positions shortly afterwards, as experience with Coldfusion, PHP, MySQL, HTML, Javascript, and CSS became more valuable. Continued into internet-marketing related positions, developing expertise in SEO and SEM techniques and training current internet marketing team for Ironbuilt Steel Buildings. Expanded experience to include traditional marketing and analysis techniques.
Revisited usability and user-experience analysis techniques, as well as demonstrating expertise in interface development and design for Motorola.
Currently working as Creative Director for a "Green" design/build firm in Pompano, Standard Bamboo, utilizing recycled and sustainable materials to design and create Green construction projects.
Jose Sierra’s Specialties:
Usability analysis and implementation, interface design and development, branding and identity development, graphic design.
Jose Sierra’s Experience
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Creative Director
Standard Bamboo
(Architecture & Planning industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Creative design and development of corporate brand & identity, marketing, and associated development.
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Working Interface Group (WIG) Lead
Motorola
(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
April 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 11 months)
Usability analysis and interface design. Analyze and improve interfaces for current and newly developed business applications. Create and design high-usability interfaces for internal high-visibility software applications.
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Creative Director
Sillysmart
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
February 2003 — February 2009 (6 years 1 month)
Create and enforce standards of development and design for web applications in a variety of technologies. Spearhead and drive business development. Direct production environment.
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Director of Marketing
Ironbuilt Steel Buildings
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Building Materials industry)
February 2003 — January 2006 (3 years )
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Creative Director
Think Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2001 — February 2003 (1 year 6 months)
Jose Sierra’s Education
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Florida State University
1995 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- Fencing club
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Boston University
Fine Art 1993 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Rugby Club, Fencing Club
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Pine Crest Preparatory School
High School , HS Degree , 1990 — 1993
Additional Information
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Jose Sierra’s Interests:
Usability, interface design, Ruby on Rails, AJAX... spearfishing, rock climbing, judo. And a partridge in a pear tree.
Jose Sierra’s Groups:
AIGA, Access Fund, RRGCC (Red River Gorge Climber's Coalition), Appalachian Trail Association, RoR SiG (Boca Raton)
Jose Sierra’s Honors:
Received national commendation for IRCC (Indian River Community College) SPOL (Strategic Planning Online Learning) interface design in 2002. Delivered seminar on interface design at South Florida ITEC 2002.
Jose Sierra’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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