Thomas Marks

Current

Lead UX/Visual Designer at Datatel
Principal at Three Last Names

Past

Front-End/UX Designer at VoIP Supply
Online Designer at Aurora Consulting Group
Intern/Online Designer at Cyber Design/Liquid Matrix

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Education

Art Institute of Pittsburgh

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Thomas Marks’s Summary

Visual Designer, User Experience Designer, and Online Marketer with almost 10 years of experience in many different facets of online media. Specializing in Visual Design, with experience designing sites for major manufacturers, e-commerce stores as well as smaller non-profits. Several months of online marketing experience at an Inc. 500 online retailer.

Conferences:
- User Interface 13 2008 (Boston)
- eduWeb 2009 (Chicago)
- DavidCo GTD 2009 (Fairfax, VA)
- Adaptive Path's UX Intensive 2009 (Washington DC)

Speaking:
- 2008 Southeast Datatel Users Group Conference (Myrtle Beach): Using Personas to Guide Design Decisions.

Thomas Marks’s Specialties:

User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Art Direction, Search Engine Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Email Marketing, Data Feed Optimization and Comparison Shopping Marketing, Print Advertising, Logo Design

Thomas Marks’s Experience

Lead UX/Visual Designer

Datatel

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Design/UX Consulting, Team Leadership, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Ethnography, Focus Groups, Visual/UI Design, Public Speaking, Usability Testing & More.

Clients include Monmouth College, Carl Sandburg College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Widener University, County College of Morris, Texas Wesleyan University, Troy University and more.
Principal

Three Last Names

(Online Media industry)

May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Freelance design, User Experience, Usability and Online Marketing consulting. Responsible for all client interaction, project planning, cost estimation , and proposal writing.

Clients include Intrapromote, LLC, Plaintiff Support, Innovative Tuning, and Trinity Episcopal Church. Regularly managed and collaborated with third party developers.
Front-End/UX Designer

VoIP Supply

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Primary Visual Designer, as well as User Experience lead and Information Architect for all web properties and projects within VoIP Supply and Sayers Media Group.

Common tasks include ethnographic research, creation of flowcharts, design of wireframes and visual comps. Other activities include close collaboration with developers and stakeholders to define project requirements as well as to introduce new methodologies and technologies to the company.

Also served as Online Marketing Specialist for several months managing paid search, datafeeds, and email marketing efforts.
Online Designer

Aurora Consulting Group

(Online Media industry)

February 2002 — March 2006 (4 years 2 months)

Online Visual and UI Design, Flash Based Product Demos, Email Blast Design and Coding, HTML, CSS, File Management/Naming Standards.

Designed dozens of new sites, demos and interfaces for Fisher-Price & Mattel Companies.

Evangelized Web Standards to Stakeholders and Development Team
Intern/Online Designer

Cyber Design/Liquid Matrix

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Started with Cyber Design as an intern during my senior year in high school. Promoted to Junior Designer within several months. Gained invaluable experience working with experienced designers and developers. Eventually left to pursue college at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

The company eventually changed it's identity to "Liquid Matrix" and was later acquired by Datatel.