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TOM HEPBURN
UX/UI DESIGNER/ DIGITAL ARTIST/ANIMATOR
www.tomhepburn.com/UI
www.tomhepburn.com
Email for phone number : [email protected]
CAREER SUMMARY:
Senior UX/UI Designer/Digital Artist with extensive experience, whose passion is UX/UI Design and is always trying to
“be” the user to help make their experience pleasant and productive. Solid experience with art direction, graphic design,
GUI design, common sense marketing, film and video editing, web design, 3D animation/3D design, Flash animation, and
audio design. Expert level knowledge of Axure RP Pro for UX wireframing, but have also has experience with Balsamiq
and Visio.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors of Fine Arts
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
Graduated 1996
SOFTWARE SKILL SET:
Axure RP Pro 7.0, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Flash Builder, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro
Studio, Adobe Premier, Maya 3D, Softimage XSI 3D, Pro Tools audio, Balsamiq, Visio, and Power Point,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Bank of America – (UX) 2016- Present
As a UX Designer, my current project is working on a design that is an add-in for Excel. A user can export their banking
data and use all of the power that Excel has.
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Responsible for new workflow design and wireframes for existing banking applications.
Updating CSS for new styling.
Chase Bank – Senior Client Experience Designer (UX) 2014- 2016
As a UX Designer, I was given variety of projects to redesign and make everything ADA compliant. Chase’s banking
software included Reporting, Statements, Checking, and Help to name a few. I worked primarily in Axure to communicate
Interactivity and workflows to the rest of the Team.
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Responsible for proof of concepts, workflow design, wireframes, and Style Guide for Chase.
Designed new functionality and new workflow for the ADA Compliant banking software.
Set up meetings and discuss the feedback and concepts with product managers. There can be as many as 50
product people at a time.
Use Axure for all Wireframes and Photoshop for all Style Guide tasks.
Media Ocean – Senior UX Designer / Digital Artist 2010 to 2014
Design the visuals and functionality of our media buying applications. Assisted with marketing initiatives by coming up
with content for advertising banners for clients.
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Responsible for visual components, wireframes, proof of concepts, workflow design, and basic coding related to
UX design using Axure RP Pro.
Designed functionality and look and feel of the new MediaBank's DSP
Continuously update the media software (OX, Prisma, Optica) we offer the advertising world, buy adding more
and more needed functionality
tradeMONSTER / optionMONSTER – UI Designer 2007 to 2010
Designed from the ground up a web based trading platform for trading options, stocks, etc. using Visio for wireframing and
was instrumental is planning the workflow from scratch. Produced marketing materials and website content, as well as
played a major role in producing the platform help system and accompanying tutorials.
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Worked as part of the team that produced, designed, and created trade Monster’s online trading platform
Produced, edited, and implemented major parts of the help system for the trade MONSTER trading platform.
These parts ranged from audio recording and editing, to full blown animation, to 2D graphic design
Produced the flash animation for the Trade MONSTER homepage. I also produced most all of the banners and
graphics on this site
Produced signs for marketing the onsite trading seminars
Tom Hepburn Freelance - Creative Director 2001 to 2006
As Creative Director of my own freelance service, directed and created many different kinds of digital media from web
graphics to 3D animation, for various types of clients
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Designed and produced graphics that were used for print, national broadcast television, and live studio sets.
Animated many of these graphics
Clients: INTERSPORT, USA TODAY, CBS, FOX, FSN
Prepared graphics in Photoshop/Imageready for web delivery on different sites. Clients: J AND T HOMES, OCE
PRINTERS, DWD DESIGN
Animated the elements that the TRIX Rabbit interacted with
Clients: CALABASH ANIMATION, NICKELODEON
Designed and produced 3D animation to illustrate the ingestion of a testosterone pill and the process of it moving
into the circulatory system
Clients: BIG SHOULDERS DIGITAL VIDEO, NY DRUG COMPANY
Edited footage for use in a national commercial
Clients: HYATT, CRAMER-KRASSELT
Designed a 3D and 2D look and animation for broadcast
Clients: SOFT SHEEN HAIR PRODUCTS, SOUND/VIDEO IMPRESSIONS
GeneralSearch.com - Web Art Director 2000 to 2001
As Art Director oversaw the art department and worked closely with programmers to produce web pages for corporate
clients as well as universities. I outlined the delivery restrictions and design style for the other web designers. Since we
were a search portal, the lowest common denominator (the dial up customer) had to be kept in mind. Also saw that the
designs were displayed properly on different platforms, different browsers, and different browser versions.
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Helped design the home page of the search portal Generalsearch.com. These pages were the home page, the news
page, the weather page, and the astrology page
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Designed the print media for our advertising campaign
Advertisers: Coke, Pennzoil
Produced all of the animation in ImageReady and Flash. These included seasonal designs on the home page
Created the graphic content for html email campaigns advertising our web portal. After designing the content, I
worked closely with the programming department to insure its delivery balancing file size with image quality
Designed and produced Flash animations for a CDROM that went out to new customers
Educated the other designers, whose backgrounds were in print, of the limitations of the web at that time
Peak Image Communications - Director of Animation 1997 to 2000
As the Director of animation, worked in web design doing Flash, provided 3D graphics for interactive CD ROMs, and
worked with the video editing department shooting footage, editing, and providing graphics and animations.
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Produced and designed the animation that was part of the IBM Worldbook encyclopedia. I would show how the
human heart works to how a frog develops lungs.
Clients: IBM
Assisted with graphics and Flash animations on the Océ Printers web site. The objective was to make a site that
would spotlight their line of high-end printers.
Clients: Océ Professional Documents Systems
Designed the opening animation of a CD ROM produced as a sales tool for Navistar’s traveling sales staff.
Clients: Navistar International
Prepared an abundance of graphics for the Maestro sports catalogue.
This included color corrections and product isolation by producing clipping paths in Photoshop
Client: Maestro Sports
Helped design the stage for the NET Global International Sales Conference as well as produced the opening
animation for the show. The show earned an AURORA AWARD.
Clients: NET Global
In the 3D world, I designed and built a character for the company V-Tech. The character was to be sold as a kind
of “Elmo” toy and potentially a show. Clients: V-Tech Toys
Won a TELLY AWARD for creating and animating a 3D character and a 3D short movie. This was screened by
all potential clients as they attended the annual Peak Image Open House.
Clients: Peak Image Communications (internal)
Engineering Animation - Graphics and Animation 1996 to 1997
EAI assisted in national and international court cases to show in simplified terms, through the use of 3D animation and 2D
graphics, the explanation for the litigation at hand. For example if a small jet had a design flaw, we would build the flaw of
the plain in 3 dimensions and pull it apart (in the 3D world) piece by piece explaining the shortcoming of the jet.
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Worked to prepare 3D models for visual integrity before they were animated.
Cleaned and prepared the graphics that would be used to illustrate a point as well as to be used as part of the
animation. Note: I was then using Photoshop 3
Marketing Support Inc. - Graphic Designer 1994 to 1995
I prepared graphics and logos in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark for print media and packaging. Ace Hardware was one of
the main clients