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Susan Patton

2104 Atchison Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66047

785-865-6103 • susan@susan-patton.com • http://susan-patton.com

Summary

Creative, results driven, & motivated Website & Interface Designer with more than eight years of experience. Designed the user interface, visual look & feel, developed, executed, along with supported a wide variety of successful websites & applications.

A team player & problem solver with excellent communication, presentation, & documentation skills. Comfortable working as part of a team as well as independently & work best in a fast-passed, deadline driven environment.

I believe the starting point for all successful website projects is listening & underst&ing the stakeholders functional needs, then researching & collaborating with stakeholders & programming resources to develop successful solutions that meet & exceed the needs of the project.

I also am a firm believer in developing within web standards & implementing current usability best practices. I am always interested in learning new skills & keeping abreast of current trends.

  • User Interface Design
  • Website & Graphic Design
  • HTML 4/5
  • CSS 2/3
  • Javascript/jQuery
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Website Analytics
  • Content Management
  • Video Production & Design
  • Presentation Skills
  • Team Player
  • Good Communicator
  • Problem Solver
  • Documentation Skills
  • Results Driven

Software Proficiency

  • Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
  • WordPress, Final Cut Pro, Compressor, QuickTime

Professional Experience

Silpada Designs, Lenexa, KS, 8/2012 — present (seasonal position)

Web Designer

Website & User Interface Design
  • Responsible for the user interface & visual design of landing & promotional pages maintaining established brand guidelines.
  • Designed & executed HTML email campaigns.

Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, MO, 1988 — 4/2012

Website Producer / Manager, 2004 — 4/2012

Website, User Interface & Graphic Design
  • Facilitated the objectives of company websites including visual design, user interface design, front-end coding including hand-coded HTML, CSS styling, Javascript & jQuery, along with content management.
  • Designed, & customized multiple WordPress sites, including extensive theme & CSS customization, plug-in selection & modification to establish site functionality.
  • Ensured Search Engine Optimization. Monitored & analyzed traffic.
  • Served as the project manager & web producer for the company's intranet project. Lead the requirements gathering, presentation to stakeholders, & website documentation.
  • Presented website design solutions for approval by internal & external project & content owners.
  • Authored an 50-plus page Author Toolkit to educate & guide authors in their online marketing efforts.
  • Implemented multiple website design & redesign projects. Overcame technical challenges. Successfully created multiple websites & supplemental pages following current usability trends & coding best-practices.
  • Worked with the IT & Marketing departments to create strategies for website content & functionality.
  • Designed graphic elements to accomplish the goals of websites including banners, promo spots, & buttons created using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & Flash.
  • Designed the user interface & executed a suite of a WordPress website, landing pages & Flash advertising to leverage the book Honey Badger Don't Care based on the viral YouTube video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger.
  • Added, categorized & maintained over 3,000 products on the publishing website, preparing, editing & hand-coding the HTML markup from inception to distribution, maintaining accuracy.
Video Design, Production & Marketing
  • Created successful book promotional videos utilizing Final Cut Pro software that resulted in a significant increase in awareness of the books they promoted. Several of the videos have had over 15,000 views.
Social Networking
  • Created & managed a social networking presence for the company across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, & Eventful as well as creation & management of several Widgets.
E-Book Team Member
  • Grew the e-Book list from the ground up to more than 550 titles.
  • Distributed, monitored & reported the availability of the e-Books at a variety of retail partners including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo & Sony overcoming multiple challenges, resulting in the books being top in their category.
Network Administrator/Desktop Support
Graphic Designer

Partners Design, Kansas City, MO

Graphic Designer

Education & Training

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Bachelor Fine Arts, Visual Communication

  • HTML & CSS Advanced, Programming Fundamentals, JavaScript & Ajax for Non-Programmers, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro Advanced, as well as numerous web design conferences & educational seminars