Visual Designer at Intuit Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Visual Designer at Intuit Inc.
- Past
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- User Experience Designer at Yahoo!
- Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!
- Konfabulator Widget Gallery Administrator at Pixoria, Inc.
- Chief Information Officer at CityStar Group, Inc.
- Education
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- Self Educated
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Ricky Romero’s Summary
A visual designer with 9 years of experience in user interface design, website design, iconography, and photography. Has the unique gift of both being able to design really cool stuff, and to write standards-compliant XHTML and CSS, as well as PHP, SQL, ActionScript, and object-oriented JavaScript.
Ricky Romero’s Specialties:
XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, SQL, MySQL, PHP, ActionScript, object-oriented JavaScript, JavaScript, usability, user interface design, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator, Flash, Flex, Maxon Cinema 4D, Cinema 4D, iconography, photography, Konfabulator, Yahoo! Widgets, Widgets
Ricky Romero’s Experience
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Visual Designer
Intuit Inc.
(Public Company; INTU; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
• Designed the look and feel of a suite of rich Internet applications written with Adobe Flex.
• Assisted with implementation of said designs by working with the ActionScript source code directly.
• Wrote the majority of the XHTML and CSS for couponoffers.intuit.com.
• Mild JavaScript work using the EXT framework. -
User Experience Designer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
November 2007 — February 2008 (4 months)
• Designed user interfaces for display on a 1080p HDTV.
• Created a beautiful set of 30 print-resolution weather icons.
• Continued Yahoo! Widget Gallery responsibilities. Posted over 1,000 new and updated Widgets for download. -
Technical Yahoo!
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
August 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 4 months)
• Continued the Yahoo! Widget Gallery submission reviews from my previous job. Posted approximately 7,000 new and updated Widgets for download.
• Wrote a very complex internal Widget to simplify and accelerate Widget Gallery queue review by over 400%.
• Designed and wrote Yahoo!-branded Widgets which utilized key Yahoo! services.
• Designed advertisements and web pages, including the former front page of widgets.yahoo.com.
• Did moderate amounts of PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/JavaScript development across the Yahoo! Widgets site. -
Konfabulator Widget Gallery Administrator
Pixoria, Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — July 2005 (8 months)
• Reviewed miniature applications called Widgets and posted them for download. The review process was strict and involved QA testing, deep JavaScript review for insecure and malicious code, and testing images to ensure that they aren't being taken from other Widgets. Reviewed and posted hundreds of new and updated Widgets.
• Worked on large amounts of HTML and CSS for the Konfabulator website. -
Chief Information Officer
CityStar Group, Inc.
(Computer Networking industry)
July 2000 — March 2005 (4 years 9 months)
• Designed for banner ads, CD jewelcases, Macromedia Director presentations, and clients' websites.
• Large amounts of HTML development.
• Developed specialized internal Konfabulator Widgets.
• Mac OS and Windows tech support.
• Video editing.
Ricky Romero’s Education
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Self Educated
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Ricky Romero’s Interests:
Adobe Photoshop, Apple, audio engineering, cars, design, digital photography, football, gadgets, Homestar Runner, iconography, JavaScript, Konfabulator, Lego, localization, Mac, Mac OS X, Macintosh, movies, Nintendo, photography, Photoshop, reading, Star Wars, Top Gear, user interface design, video editing, video games, web design, Widgets, writing
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