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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. • 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. • • 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. • • • 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. • • • • 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 • • • • • • 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. • 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 • • • • • 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. • • • • • • • • 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. • • 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