Michael DiMauro - Designer

Objective:

To use vision as a designer and a love of interactivity to exceed
expectations. Also to use organizational skills, leadership ability, and
problem solving to achieve goals and deliver successful projects.

Experience:

Art Director
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 03/2004 - present
Created all graphic and interaction design for UR's 11 River Campus Libraries. 
Focused heavily on user centered design and worked extensively with UR's 
usability team and anthropologist. Managed staff of student interns. 

Freelance Web Design
New York, NY 10/2001 - Current
Created a myriad of projects from online advertising to full blown ecommerce
web sites. Worked both alone and in tandem with programmers.
Involved in all aspects starting from the sales pitch to finishing with the
quality assurance. 

- Developed long term relationship with PETA. 
- Hired by Nickelodeon to create banner ads for the Nintendo game "Pikmin"
to be displayed on nick.com.
- Honed client relation skills.
- Gained a much better understanding of the web development process by
experiencing all aspects first hand.

Graphic Designer
Elementk, Rochester, NY 04/2003 - 03/2004
Creating elearning content in flash for Cisco and Microsoft, as well as
doing promotional projects for Elementk. Managing media producers both
locally and at Elementk's counterpart in India. Skills used: Flash, Actionscript, 
XML, Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, Dreamweaver, Sound Forge, 3DS Max.

- Received multiple bonuses for exceeding project expectations.
- Called on to create graphical standards used by all members of the design
staff.
- Part of a small exclusive team that developed actionscript for Elementk's
new content delivery model.
- Training new hires since second month of employment.

Lead Designer
Alltrue Networks, Inc./Sunshine Amalgamedia New York, NY 10/1998 - 10/2001
Sushine Amalgamedia became Alltrue networks in June of 2000.
Responsibilities at Alltrue included creating, updating, and overseeing the
look and feel of alltrue.com as well as all marketing and internal print
projects. Prior to Alltrue responsibilities included designing and
programming for a wide range of clients, mostly in the entertainment
industry. Also managed freelance designers. 

- Kept design fresh and exciting by continually creating new animations for
the home page, which helped entice over one million users to register at
alltrue.com.
- Worked with many high profile clients like Microsoft, Intel, PBS, PBS
Kids, ABC, and DIYnet.
- Coded and designed the original "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" web site.
Design was used for two years, throughout the height of the show's
popularity.

Lead Designer
MJMI, New Providence, NJ 01/1998 - 10/1998
Created all art and design for the internet division of an ad agency in New
Jersey that specialized in auto dealerships. Was also in charge of the
division's print work. 

- Designed the Cherry Hill Motors website which was awarded Automotive
Weekly's Web Site of the Year Award.
- Designed and created over 20 websites in the short time i was there.

Webmaster
Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI 06/1996 - 01/1998
I was the sole designer/producer/programmer for the second generation Rhode
Island School of Design official website. I held a staff of 20 student
employees at times, and designed a site encompassing all 18 academic and 28
administrative departments. In this time i also developed an intranet and
created a site for the museum with over 300 artworks.

- Won Kaplan's College Site of the Week Award several times.
- Created a web site that was used by one of the top design schools in the
world for over three years.

Education:

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
BFA Illustration, 1996

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
1991
Won a scholarship to Syracuse's summer program for advanced high school
students. Gained college credits while learning about art and design.


Skills:

Flash, Actionscript, XML, Illustrator, Photoshop, HTML,
ImageReady, HomeSite or BBEdit, Quark, Dreamweaver, Director, Art Direction,
Graphic Design, Illustration, Traditional Animation, FTP, HTML, DHTML,
JavaScript, After Effects, Premiere, 3D Studio Max


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