Meng To

Meng To

User Experience Designer Senior at Shopmedia Inc.

Montreal, Canada Area

Current
  • Creative Director at Shopmedia Inc.
  • Consultant Web Designer / Web Developer Senior at Precision Advertising
Past
  • Founder / Web Designer / PHP Developer at XDesigns Studios
  • Consultant Web Integrator at Blue C Communications
  • Founder and CEO at Shadowness
  • Art Director / Web Design at CampusNetwork
  • Web Designer at Gamma
Education
  • Ahuntsic
Connections
87 connections
Industry
Design
Websites

Meng To’s Summary

UX/UI Designer specialized in Social Media, Design & Wireframing, Website Analytics, Viral Marketing, Pixel Perfection, Clean CSS, Semantically correct, Scalable PHP/MySQL coding, W3C-standards & cross-browsers Web Design. Mac & iPhone user.

I have been a key designer and coder for many projects that connects people to the Internet world. I am passionate about technologies and the Web and I would like to focus and take full advantage of my large array of skills and knowledge that are required for high-end social-networking and user experience Web applications.

Meng To’s Specialties:

Photoshop, Omnigraffle, Illustrator, Flash, Coda, CandyBar3, After Effects, 3D Studio MAX, Actionscript, XHTML, CSS, W3C, Javascript, AJAX, PHP, MySQL, UNIX, Subversion, Cross-browsers, Mac, PC, Mobile.


Meng To’s Experience

  • Creative Director

    Shopmedia Inc.

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    December 2008Present (1 year )

    Creative Director & UX/UI Designer for a social network project. Art directed and worked on Hibe.com, Itemcast, Shopmedia, numerous revisions of 300+ pages wireframes, sitemaps, QA, iconography, short videos, business logics and vision and more. Daily operations and brainstorming with Founder, President and CEO Jean Dobey.

  • Consultant Web Designer / Web Developer Senior

    Precision Advertising

    (Online Media industry)

    October 2008Present (1 year 2 months)

    Web Designer / Web Developer and Social Networking Specialist. Flash actionscript developer, front-end and back-end designer and developer, social marketing specialist. Worked on reknowned Web client projects such as FYSH, HotPaws, FDJ. Helped with flash games, websites, social media presence, social marketings, demos and more.

  • UI Designer Senior

    Nstein Technologies

    (Public Company; EIN.V; Computer Software industry)

    July 2008September 2008 (3 months)

    Senior UI/UX, CSS-expert Designer for Web Content Management company. Responsible for the newest releases, Demos and Corporate Website. Also worked on the UI of sister projects such as TME(Text-mining engine – Java platform), DAM (Digital Asset Management -- .NET platform) and WCM (Web content management – PHP/MySQL).

  • Project Manager / PHP Developer / UI Designer Senior

    Codency

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    July 2006January 2007 (7 months)

    Developed and production managed an ambitious photos/videos sharing project in a team of 8. Designed branding, integrated CSS/XHTML, helped developed backend, integrated videos, API, payment system and helped launch viral marketing.

  • Frond-end and Back-end Programmer

    OZ Communications

    (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2006December 2006 (11 months)

    Developed Intranet and Extranet as fundamental tools to communicate between employees and customers. Coded Connectedinstyle.com / Affichezvotrestyle.com + CMS using PHP, MySQL and Flash. ConnectedInStyle campaign expects over 100,000 signups under a month's time. Developed livethemobilelife.com, the end-user site for oz.com. OZ currently has 250+ employees. Participated in a Brew UIOne project in collaboration with Sprint Canada coding in TrigML, a new language in XML format.

  • Founder / Web Designer / PHP Developer

    XDesigns Studios

    (Design industry)

    June 2005May 2006 (1 year )

    Founded this creative agency providing Web Design and Solutions to the media-driven clients from around the globe. Fully designed, coded, animated the Website in Flash. Main designer and programmer for all client projects.

  • Consultant Web Integrator

    Blue C Communications

    (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

    January 2006February 2006 (2 months)

    BLUE, a leading design firm for large clients such as Nokia, Merrell, Desjardins contracted me to help with their client projects. Developed on clients Desjardins bank(citedunord.com) and Quintessence Hotel (hotelquintessence.com).

  • Founder and CEO

    Shadowness

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20032005 (2 years )

    Developped, designed Shadowness.com, a content-driven art community that counts over 50,000 artists and receives 1,000,000 pageviews monthly. Managed a staff of 6 employees. Shadowness has also produced over 35+ client projects and I played a key designer and coder for all of them. EAddixtra projects include eevox.com, eden3.com, ensnare2.com and xdesignss.com. Clients include Columbia University (seas2006.com), CampusNetwork, Government 9/11 project, XTC Radio, DJ AJG. Additionally founded tutorials20.com

  • Art Director / Web Design

    CampusNetwork

    (Online Media industry)

    January 2003June 2004 (1 year 6 months)

    Designed corporate identity, logo branding, promotion tools such as wallpapers, web banners, posters, icons, flash animations, music and tutorials. Helped conceive digital concepts and maximize marketing potential. CampusNetwork.com at the time it was active reached over 100,000 registered college students from around the globe.

  • Web Designer

    Gamma

    (Privately Held; Retail industry)

    July 2000February 2001 (8 months)

    Designed corporate identity, conceived 5+ Websites. Other designs include animated and static banners, flash banners, wallpapers for marketing team. (gammae.com)


Meng To’s Education

  • Ahuntsic

    Multimedia & Design 20002000


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Meng To’s Interests:

Design, Social Media, Brand, Business, New Technology, iPhone, Games, Art, Photography, Video Editing, Movies, Music.


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