Web designer, UI and Information Architect, Graphic artist and flash animator for Internet
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Web Designer at selfemployed (Self-employed)
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- Manager, Development at Care Touch
- Creative Director at Technologent Inc
- Senior Web Producer at Firemans Fund Insurance Company
- Senior Web Designer at Kaiser Permanente IT
- Developer at ABC Sports
- Adjunct Professor at York College of Pennsylvania
- Adjunct Professor at HACC
- Education
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- California State University-Hayward
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Sherry Wacker’s Summary
I am a web designer and artist living in Oakland California.
• MS in Technical Education Leadership studying instructional design of e-learning, Cal State East Bay
• BA in Art Education, University of Maryland
• As Web producer at Fireman's Fund and Senior Designer at Kaiser Permanente, managed work and performed in web site use cases, user interface design, web design, and graphic design for all purposes. Interacted with all areas of the companies including marketing, corporate leaders, IT, potential clients and conducted use tests, implementing changes according to findings.
• Prior experience includes illustration, commercial and fine art, and teaching at York College and Harrisburg Area college. Designed screens for the first Monday night Football Computer game made for ABC Sports.
• Portfolio of work can be viewed at http://Sherrywacker.com.
• Today I am interested in working in web design, e-learning, or graphic design in a freelance, part time or full time capacity.
Sherry Wacker’s Specialties:
Web accessibility, user interface design, CSS, style templates, web based work tools, e-learning, graphic design, flash animation, interactive design, computer game screen design, illustration
Sherry Wacker’s Experience
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Web Designer
selfemployed (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)
Web design including:
Discovery, the period of time you learn what the client's intended goals are for the website, what former designs and or corporate identity issues are in place, what technical specifications are needed.
Site architecture, organizing the information or flow of information and or transactions that will take place on the site
UI design, putting a skeletal functioning system to work to figure out the user interface
User testing, to feed back into the UI design as it progresses
Graphic design and graphic optimization for web to make images quick to download.
Search optimization, making sure that content and meta tags match identically, properly naming every image to be searched easily and having individual page titles that apply to each pages content.
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Manager, Development
Care Touch
(Internet industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
Oversee all creative projects involving web interface, user experience, creative branding and implementation into web sphere site Carepanion.com
Oversee all marketing creative work including print advertisements, web advertisements and catalogue
Accomplishments: Redesigned the web site Carepanion.com, designed the Carepanion 2000 Product Catalogue. -
Creative Director
Technologent Inc
(Internet industry)
September 2000 — January 2001 (5 months)
Management of design staff
Establishment of site requirements, design of information architecture, implementation of corporate brand "look and feel" and iterative usability testing
Coding of front end and design and implementation of templates -
Senior Web Producer
Firemans Fund Insurance Company
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)
March 2000 — July 2000 (5 months)
Production of corporate wide web site
Coordination of web site development activity across multiple departments, outside agencies and vendors
Recruitment and management of design staff
Accomplishments: Integrated numerous company applications into one common interface and initiated subsidiary integration into the Fireman's Fund site. -
Senior Web Designer
Kaiser Permanente IT
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
January 1998 — March 2000 (2 years 3 months)
Recruitment of designers and determination of needed equipment, software and other tools for web site development
Management of relationships with clients including defining business requirements, establishing web site "look and feel" and conducting usability testing for the sites (including Intranet, Extranet and Internet)
Development of user interface (UI) and information architecture (IA) for web sites including HTML coding and adapting java script
Implementation of multimedia applications for kiosks, including design, illustration and animation
Accomplishments: Successfully recruited a team of 5 web designers; designed and coded several web sites; designed interactive modules for an exhibit in Disneyland; and participated in the UI design for the KP online appointment system. -
Developer
ABC Sports
(Entertainment industry)
December 1996 — October 1998 (1 year 11 months)
Design of interface screens in 3D Studio Max and Photoshop
Design and coding of web site using HTML, Frames, Java scripting, Active X, Cool Edit, Map It, Photoshop and Fractal Painter
Accomplishments: Created interface screens for ABC's Monday Night Football and "Heroes of the Gridiron" PC games and designed web site for interactive play of the Monday Night Football game. -
Adjunct Professor
York College of Pennsylvania
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1989 — January 1998 (9 years 1 month)
Taught: figure drawing, computer design, commercial design, and art appreciation. Initiated course of study and
helped design courses and implement for computer art major. -
Adjunct Professor
HACC
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 1990 — May 1993 (3 years 5 months)
Taught elementary art education, art appreciation.
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Sherry Wacker’s Interests:
Painting, nature hikes, swimming, photography, people watching
Sherry Wacker’s Groups:
Pro Arts, MesArts, Bay CHI
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Women in Photography
Sherry Wacker’s Honors:
Accepted into the California Modern Art Gallery REFLECTIONS OF THE BAY, Artworks selected for show by jury:Alan Bamberger, DeWitt Cheng and Inga Fischer
Baltimore Add of the Year for best illustration in an add for the March of Dimes Walkathon
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