User Experience Designer at Intuit Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
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- User Experience Designer at Intuit Inc.
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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.
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- Self Educated
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Ricky Romero’s Summary
A visual designer with expertise 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, and object-oriented JavaScript.
Ricky Romero’s Specialties:
XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, SQL, MySQL, PHP, object-oriented JavaScript, JavaScript, usability, user interface design, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator, Director, Maxon Cinema 4D, Cinema 4D, iconography, photography, Konfabulator, Yahoo! Widgets, Widgets
Ricky Romero’s Experience
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User Experience Designer
Intuit Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
March 2008 — Present (3 months)
Responsible for the look and feel of a suite of Flash-based applications, as well as mild HTML and CSS markup.
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User Experience Designer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
November 2007 — February 2008 (4 months)
Worked in the User Experience Design group at Yahoo!, on initiatives on both the desktop and the television.
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Technical Yahoo!
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
August 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 4 months)
My job responsibilities at Yahoo! as a Technical Yahoo! included the Yahoo! Widget Gallery submission reviews from my previous job, as well as creating Yahoo! branded Widgets which utilize the Yahoo! developer APIs. I also did lots of design work on advertisements, web pages, and, of course, Widgets. I was also responsible for most of the HTML upkeep and small amounts of mild PHP scripting.
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Konfabulator Widget Gallery Administrator
Pixoria, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2004 — July 2005 (8 months)
As the Konfabulator Widget Gallery Administrator, my duties were to review miniature applications called Widgets and make them available for download. The review process is strict and involves testing the Widget functionality to ensure there are no bugs, reviewing the code to ensure that there's no malicious functionality, and testing images to ensure that they aren't being taken from other Widgets, among other duties.
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Chief Information Officer
CityStar Group, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 2000 — March 2005 (4 years 9 months)
During my long work history with CityStar, my duties were numerous and varied. I was given tasks of Macintosh and Windows tech support, Macintosh and Windows dialup connection setup, designing websites for major and minor clients, editing video, creating PowerPoint presentations, creating Macromedia Director presentations, designing CD labels and jewelcases, banner ad design, 3D and 2D design, et cetera.
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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