Scott Christipher Romack's Resume (Last updated May 8th 2008)

A functional minimalist with a focus on holistic Information Design, usability, accessibility, Human factors, and heuristic evaluation with a deep understanding of HCI, Web Design and Web Technology, Typographic Grid Layout & Design systems both traditional and modern.
An early adopter of Style Sheets using them in early print work using QuarkXpress it was a natural transition to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) & eXtensible hyperText Markup Language (XHTML) in web design, using this technology exclusively on all projects since 2000.

Why use Web Standards?

Speed Web Development,
Simplify Testing & Maintenance,
Reduce Bandwidth Costs (over 50%),
Improve User Experience (love thy user).
Aid accessibility, usability, searchability & etc...

Wieck Media - www.wieck.com, Senior Web Designer/Developer, Dallas
Had a lot of fun with the great people at Wieck designing and building sites for Honda, Ford, Allstate, and last but not least The New York Times, using the cool Ruby on Rails framework and jquery javascript libraries, and my own CSS framework.
Conceptualised, prototyped and built a system to video interview job candidates via the internet.
Developed some smaller sites in Expression Engine a pretty good content management system built in php.

ABI Insurance, senior web designer/developer, Ft. Worth (Feburary 2007)
Designed coded tested and sent standards compliant html email that looks good in all major email clients, no small feat. Redesigned coded and maintained six internal and external websites. Edited and published streaming video and multimedia. Educated and trained creative staff on the merrits of standards based web development. Drank copius amounts of coffee.

powered.com, senior web designer / developer, Austin (August 2006)
Powered - www.powered.com
Senior Web Designer / Developer, Austin (August)
Using the usual suspects Photoshop Dreamweaver as well as new (to me) tool IntelliJ IDEA a Java IDE and together with the excellent team at Powered, Designed and built online learning centers for both Yahoo! http://www.yahoolearningcenter.com/ and Corel http://photo101.corel.com/ using Powered's own content management system which uses Java JSP on the backend. All Powered's sites are 100% standards compliant and these are no exception.

Ciber - www.ciber.com, Senior Web Developer / Designer, Dallas (may 2006)
Using .NET, Sitecore, CMS, CSS, XHTML & XML, XSL & dom scripting, Photoshop, Dreamweaver
Single handedly designed implemented customs Content Management System (CMS) for Collin County Community College District (ccccd) using Sitecore a .net based cms on an iis server with seven sql databases. Used Photoshop for the conceptual designs and hand coded the standards based XHTML templates.

Esoterix, Senior Web Developer / Designer (Februrary 2006)
Redesigned & refactored web based j2ee application used by Esoterix and their clients to record complex pharmaceutical testing data, generate reports and send data to various systems using; XHTML, AJAX, JSP and the frameworks; MoJo, Capability Framework, Struts, and TopLink - Object-Relational Framework. The redesigned site was over 50% lighter (download times) easier to code for the back end developers and was more visually appealing and more usable

Imc2, Tribal Ddb, Dallas (November 2005)
For IMC2; Organized Information Architecture for several Pharmaceutical clients, participated in brainstorming sessions and produced functional UI wireframes using Visio.
For TRIBAL DDB; Multimedia Design and production for various clients including Apple, Lucas arts, Pepsi, Mountain Dew etc... Designed Animated banner ad units in a Yahoo compatible format working with creative personnel on storyboards in Adobe Photoshop and Flash.
For ACKERMAN MCQUEEN; Designed and produced streaming video and animation for political website using macromedia flash.

Nokia - www.nokia.com, Senior Web Developer / Designer, Irving (october 2004)
Nokia.com Government section
Created working XHTML / JSP prototype for usability testing and redesigned the entire section and uploaded improved content via NOKIA's custom CMS (content management system) built upon vignette.
Receivables Management
Prototyped in Adobe Photoshop graphic user interface for user testing and to assure that all requirements were met, then, developed (X)HTML and CSS based templates to speed development and assure consistent look & feel in the final application.

Prologic, senior web developer / designer, Richardson
Rapid development of ERP system for Plano Independent School District through partnership with Austin based Prologic using Java and JSP combined with Custom Framework and Struts with 100% CSSP layout to separate content from the presentation layer . Responsible for layout, design and heuristic evaluation of Highly Usable and Learnable User Interface to manage entire Plano ISD including personnel and payroll as well as student management and reporting. Introduced human factors techniques into web application design process reducing development cycle. Developed custom 'skinable' interface using CSSP, Standards Compliant XHTML, DHTML, XML, Javascript and Java Server Pages using industry standard tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash, IBM Websphere Application Developer and ClearCase.

Rsi International, senior web developer / art director, Home ( March.2003)
Scoped, designed, implemented and promoted the standards compliant, usable and accessible XHTML, DHTML, CSSP site and media campaign for www.the-hacienda.net using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash and Bradsoft Topstyle following the principals of Usability, Inductive User Interface, and HCI (human computer interaction). Development included; photo shoot, online booking system, Search engine optimization (Google, Yahoo, and MSN) and a content management system.

Verizon, Web Designer / Multimedia, Irving (Februrary 2001)
Staffed and lead creative development team in designing and producing wireless web application for collaborative effort between Verizon and Microsoft. Conceptualized custom interface elements, icons, logotypes, and overall aesthetic as well as functionality of web interface using DHTML, CSS, and flash. Created dynamic animated online marketing campaign to promote the product. Our team leader was onstage with Bill Gates see. http://www.twistsolutions.com/media/gates.wmv

Objectspace, Dallas (November 2000)
For GALILEO INTERNATIONAL Designed and implemented user interface design for complex travel management system following corporate style guide.
For NOKIA and SOUTHWESTERN BELL Developed prototype interface for cobranded ringtone website.

Alphagraphics Sir Speedy, Graphic Designer, Dallas (November 1995)
designed 4 color printed material, brochures, business cards as well as web and multimedia design.

XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML, XSL, HCI, SEO, svg, ECMA Script, ActionScript, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, UI Design, Visualization Design, Visual Display of Information, Animation, Typography, Motion Graphics, Iconography, Corporate Identity, Architecture, Photography, Painting, Sculpture, Gardening & Music.
With; All things Adobe, Macromedia, not Microsoft and of course TextMate

UCDA Award of Excellence for North Lake College CDROM
"You have a knack for this" - JR Jackobs (Richard's Group)
"Exudes professionalism" - Judy L. Lembke
"Visionary" - Cristian Trescudu