UI Designer at Staples Promotional Products
Greater St. Louis Area
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- UI Designer at Staples Promotional Products
- Past
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- Sr. Web Designer at Corporate Express Promotional Marketing
- Freelance Art Director at Freelance Computer Services
- Creative Director at Sendouts
- Partner at The ORCA Partnership
- Adjunct Faculty at St. Louis Community College (Meremac)
- Adjunct Faculty at Maryville University
- Inventory Manager at Mobile Comm
- Aeromedical Specialist at United States Air Force
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Kevin Ward’s Summary
Multimedia Developer (Web, Print, Video, Interactive) with extensive project and people management skills. Clear focus on usability and current standards with a solid understanding of branding and marketing.
Highly focused on establishing and manage expectations through a clear metric-guided process-oriented approach. A lover of people and genuinely interested in how to make the world a better place!
Kevin Ward’s Specialties:
Branding and Identity, Project Planning and Management, Print Design, Website Planning, Design and Development, Audio Production and Engineering, Video Production & Editing
Kevin Ward’s Experience
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UI Designer
Staples Promotional Products
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Responsible for UI Design and development across all e Commerce platforms internal and client side. Responsible for setting up and establishing design standards and processes.
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Sr. Web Designer
Corporate Express Promotional Marketing
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
September 2007 — June 2008 (10 months)
Front-end development working primarily with HTML, CSS, and Javascript on high-end, large-scale web and interactive projects.
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Freelance Art Director
Freelance Computer Services
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 2008 (10 years )
Freelance Experience In:
Web Site Planning and Development
UI Design and Implementation
Graphic Design
Video Production
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Creative Director
Sendouts
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for the look, feel, branding and identity of all Sendouts sales and marketing materials. One of the key hiring points was that I would join the company and completely refit the existing website to focus more on our customers and deliver content in an engaging way that met sales and marketing goals.
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Partner
The ORCA Partnership
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 1 month)
ORCA is one of the greatest experiences of my career. At ORCA I functioned as a Knowledge Worker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_workers). A term coined by Peter Drucker that encapsulates the idea of an organic learning/working individual focused on the success of the company and the clients.
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Adjunct Faculty
St. Louis Community College (Meremac)
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2000 — July 2005 (5 years 7 months)
My work at Meramec was as an instructor of Web and Graphic Design in the Creative Department. I was instrumental in the development of the syllabi for the 3 web development courses.
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Adjunct Faculty
Maryville University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 1 month)
At Maryville University I worked as an instructor in the fields of Web and Print Design for 3 semesters.
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Inventory Manager
Mobile Comm
(Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
As regional inventory manger, my responsibilities included managment of the St. Louis inventory department personnel, processes, metrics and reporting.
Achievements: In a matter of 2 months I took our inventory control department from a 60% accountability to 95% accountability for all stock items and improved the reporting and delivery times across all channels. -
Aeromedical Specialist
United States Air Force
(Government Agency; Military industry)
1990 — 1998 (8 years )
Deployed: Establish a highly functional medical unit with the ability to service an entire mobile squadron. Set up and be operational in any theater of operation within a 48 hour window.
Non-Deployed: Manage Physical examinations, OSHA examinations, Immunizations and medical care of my reporting squadron.
Key Skills: emergency medicine, flight crew medicine, OSHA medical standards, medical records management.
additional: during my time in I was also instrumental in developing a computer based physical examinations tracking system. I was involved heavily with the hospital training team where I worked as an EMT course manager, ACLS Instructor, CPR Instructor Trainer.
