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LAURA
VIG
WEB & GRAPHIC DESIGN
WEBSITE
www.lauravig.com
EMAIL
[email protected]
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & TRAINING
Code Fellows, UX Engineer Evening Class - Fall 2013
A class for working professionals, focusing on web design through code. Topics include current and best practices in
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The primary outcome was to learn how to bridge the gap between designers and
engineers in order to develop visually stunning, semantic, and functional code.
Freelance Consulting:
BookRags.com: Ad units & branding
skin design, UI/UX for site redesign
SGN.com: Design/development of
landing pages & wordpress website
maintenance for mobile & social
games
Soundgarden: Website & email
design/development, and Spotify
channel ads for the launch of The
Avenger’s single, “Live to Rise”
Tim Lincecum: Mobile design for
digital baseball card application &
social fan community website design
including Flite integration
Electronic Arts: Graphics for
Battlecast Primetime & BioWare
Pulse/BioWare TV logo design
GoPago: Website & mobile UI design
& development in the startup phase
of the mobile payment application
Interscope Records/Universal
Music Group: microsite & ad
wireframes, design, and development
for various artists
Momo: UX/UI design & branding for a
technology startup focusing on social
shopping & customer rewards
(website & mobile)
Creative Director, Adville/USA, Pasadena, CA • October 2009 - Present (Working remotely since 2011)
Adville/USA is a fast-paced, creative advertising agency with clients in the QSR Industry such as Wienerschnitzel,
Dairy Queen, and The Original Tommy’s Burger. Project range includes website creation and management, online
promotions, email campaigns, marketing videos and televised media, point of purchase materials, direct mail
campaigns, and promotional merchandise. My hands-on role involves taking ownership of projects from concept
through production while managing the creative staff and freelancers to ensure projects are high quality
representations of the agency and completed on time.
Visual Web Designer, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA • March - October 2009
Web designer for the Prescription Refill site along with creating design patterns for the style guide library, working
closely with interaction designers, usability testers, editors, and developers. Member of the CrUX (Creative User
Experience) team working in an Agile development environment with daily scrum meetings.
Web Designer, Kiwee (Division of American Greetings), Santa Monica, CA • January - August 2008
Kiwee was a company formed by American Greetings to create online greeting cards, emoticons, and social graphics.
Responsibilities included designing Flash banners, e-cards, logos, user interfaces, and vector illustrations.
EDUCATION
California State University, Long Beach, Bachelor of Arts Degree 2007 (Graphic Design emphasis, cum laude)
Summer Semester Study Abroad, Florence, Italy 2007
SKILLS & SOFTWARE
Adobe Creative Cloud: Expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Experience in Flash, After Effects, Fireworks
Web Development: HTML/CSS, experience working with responsive layouts, JavaScript/jQuery, Sublime Text 2,
version control with GitHub through terminal, Wordpress, Bootstrap, and designing within Ruby on Rails views
PROFILE
I am a web & graphic designer with a very strong marketing background. I am passionate about consumer-facing
products and how design enhances the customer’s experience. Keeping current on web development standards and
practices allows me to work closely with all types of developers in order to create optimal products. I enjoy attending
meetups, events such as Startup Weekend, and all types of professional networking events.
References available upon request.