Freelance interaction designer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Web & Interaction Designer at Ludic Labs
- Past
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- Flash Developer at WagerWorks / IGT
- Senior Designer at SocialMedia
- Web Designer & Developer at Asterpix
- Flash Developer at Wagerworks, San Francisco, CA
- Owner at alabut.com
- Flash Developer at Lambesis
- Web Designer at Anonymizer
- Web Developer at Capital One Auto Finance
- Programmer/Analyst at UC San Diego
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
- Gompers Secondary School
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Al Abut’s Experience
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Web & Interaction Designer
Ludic Labs
(Internet industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Flash Developer
WagerWorks / IGT
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
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Senior Designer
SocialMedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)
* Developing web apps for an application network with millions of daily users across Facebook and MySpace.
* Working closely with a cross-functional group to define and create satisfying user experiences; and creating engaging interactive design solutions project from inception to completion.
* Projects include games, prototypes, landing pages, boutique sites, advertising banners, and promotional email development and other site elements.
* Skills used: UI and graphic design, Fireworks, HTML, CSS. -
Web Designer & Developer
Asterpix
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)
Branding, UI design, Flex/Actionscript/Flash, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Django.
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Flash Developer
Wagerworks, San Francisco, CA
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; IGT; Computer Games industry)
December 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Creating online casino games. Programming in Actionscript, using OOP methodology and XML data integration. Working with a team of artists, Flash programmers and Java coders on projects with quick turnaround times.
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Owner
alabut.com
(Internet industry)
October 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Freelanced for design firms and advertising agencies in the San Diego area, specializing in standards-compliant XHTML/CSS and Actionscript-heavy Flash.
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Flash Developer
Lambesis
(Internet industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
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Web Designer
Anonymizer
(Internet industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
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Web Developer
Capital One Auto Finance
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; COF; Financial Services industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
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Programmer/Analyst
UC San Diego
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
December 2000 — October 2004 (3 years 11 months)
* Lead web developer for an environmental research initiative, the Superfund Basic Research Program.
* Web developer and first webmaster of the Division of Biological Sciences.
Al Abut’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
Political Science 1993 — 1999
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Gompers Secondary School
1988 — 1993
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