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Lee Ann Jack

Energetic, deadline driven, budget meeting, creative with many years of successfully servicing companies. My goal is to create work that grabs the target audience's attention, stays true to corporate image/policy, meets deadlines and stays within budget. I bring ideas to life and on time. I am multifaceted with additional strengths in writing, editing and event management.

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Senior Designer/Developer

TOOLS

InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, FrameMaker, WordPress, Acrobat, Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSS, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, XML, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, SharePoint, Sitecore, SalesForce Marketing Cloud, Active Campaign, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads,Constant Contact and others

CAREER DIFFERENTIATORS

  • Expertise for researching, designing and developing the user experience and understands how valuable it is to create mechanically produced work that has great user experience as well as design that strikes the much appreciated and needed balance between function and aesthetics. Creates design that has excellent user experience and user interface; enforces a language; and injects beauty and life
  • Expert in juggling and managing many different responsibilities, multiple assignments, job functions, priorities and deadlines each day.
  • Competent at administering the development, coordination, and communication of projects from initial design concept all the way through completion. Experienced working with internal account, strategy, technical and marketing teams and customers on the initial design concepts, to then working with photographers, printers, other designers, other developers and writers on the design and development process, and then going live on the web or to be printed. Communication with everyone is very important throughout the process from assuring deadlines are met to conveying information accurately and presenting technical concepts and defending concepts and deliverable at key milestone to peers clients and executives and providing realistic delivery estimates
  • Ability to clarify big-picture concepts and consider user flow and usability to deliver simple and compelling experiences
  • Extremely skilled at drawing images and illustrations, taking and manipulating photographs, working with images and more
  • Consistently works on search engine optimization (SEO), Google Analytics and more while always keeping in mind their behavior on multiple browsers and devices
  • Skilled at designing, developing and working with web banner advertisements, social media, emails, websites and more
  • Plan, conduct and help conduct A/B testing, multivariate testing (MVT) and other forms of testing; contributes to the QA effort; conducts frame work testing utilizing Protractor and Karma to execute unit tests; provides unit tests documentation and performs code reviews; and conducts Jasmine unit test using Karma to verify Angular JS modules and Java Script utility routines
  • Ensures that websites are accessible for all by following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for websites, Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) for authoring tools and Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) for applications
  • Experience working with team members that might be in different geographical locations and working remotely
  • Embodies a keen interest in staying on top of the latest design trends, emerging web technologies and always trying to apply the most innovative industry best practices

    • EXPERIENCE

    FREELANCE/CONTRACT UI/UX DESIGNER / DEVELOPER / WRITER

    CLIENTS: McDonald’s Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, Plum Tree Group, Ogilvy & Mather, iCrossing, First Alert, Follett Corporation, Chiro One, Triumph Higher Education Group, New Control, Baird & Warner, Genworth Financial Securities and others Appleton, WI and Chicago, IL
    KEY PROJECTS:
  • McDonald’s, developed and designed a Happy Meal Application. Researched, designed and developed intranet sites for McDonald’s franchises by creating wireframes, prototypes and Photoshop compositions. Tested for any multi-device/cross-browser compatibility and accessibility issues. Worked with MySQL Databases, login protection and elastic cloud based AWS and GCP search
  • Abbott Laboratories, assisted with the Visual/UX/UI full stack development and design of an application. Worked with MySQL Databases and login protection
  • Escoffier Online, spearheaded the need to update their eCommerce corporate WordPress based websites. Worked as a key team member performing the full stack development and visual/UX/UI design and more for the sites. The outcome was that the sites saw more overall traffic, were a better user experience and had higher retention rates. Commended for WordPress, design and development
  • First Alert, Chiro One, Herrschners and others, responsible for the Visual/UX/UI of their client’s Drupal and WordPres websites
  • Ogilvy & Mather, Follett Corporation and others, created and developed both HTML5 and JPG marketing materials
  • Panduit, assisted with their eCommerce website. Focused on links, product numbers and organization of their style sheets/CSS

    • SENIOR DESIGNER / DEVELOPER / WRITER

    Tillie Creative Design
    Appleton, WI and Chicago, IL
    CLIENTS: People hosting events
    WEBSITES: tilliecreativedesign.com
    PROJECTS: Event marketing materials
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Created, developed and maintained a Drupal and WordPress website and kept on top of SEO, Google Analytics and email blasts. Created branded materials with specific date deadlines. Commended for design skills and maintained excellent client relations. Worked with Bear Printing, Appleton, Wisconsin to print materials.

    SENIOR DESIGNER/DEVELOPER

    Chicago Tribune
    Chicago, Illinois
    CLIENTS: Chicago Tribune advertisers such as Navy Pier, Sotheby's, Broadway in Chicago, Hilton, Volkswagen, Marriott, Sony, Autobarn, University of Chicago, P.F. Chang's, Rosebud, Comcast and many more
    WEBSITES: Chicagotribune.com, cars.com, metromix.com and others
    PROJECTS: Advertisements, landing pages
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Designed web advertisements and landing pages on a timely basis

    SENIOR DESIGNER

    Shure, Inc.
    Niles, Illinois
    CLIENTS: Internal engineering/marketing departments
    TEAM INTERACTION: Reported to publication manager and interacted with writers and engineers.
    PROJECTS: Publications, catalogs, user guides, posters, illustrations
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Designed and wrote publications adhering to corporate image and policy that used XML as their foundation. Illustrated products to show how the products are installed and used.

    SENIOR DESIGNER

    Andrew Corporation
    Orland Park, Illinois
    CLIENTS: Internal marketing departments
    TEAM INTERACTION: Reported to art director and interacted with project managers, print buyer and printers.
    PROJECTS: Catalogs, product brochures, print advertising campaigns, newsletters, marketing kits, direct mail pieces, sales support materials, identity development, packaging, signage
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Designed product collateral materials and catalogs adhering to corporate image and policy. Maintained the corporate catalog and made updates. Worked on multiple projects simultaneously while under tight deadlines.
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Commended for production and design skills, and maintained excellent client relations.

    INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER/WRITER

    Square D
    Palatine, Illinois (Contract for Digital People)
    CLIENTS: Square D Customer TrainersTEAM INTERACTION: Reported to customer training manager and worked with trainers and information experts that included engineers, instructors and service technicians.
    PROJECTS: Customer training materials that included PowerPoint presentations, student guides, catalogs and software procedures manuals. A few of these projects were multi-lingual
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Designed and wrote these projects on a timely basis.

    ART DIRECTOR

    American INVSCO Corporation
    Chicago, Illinois
    CLIENTS: General Managers of American INVSCO's real estate properties
    TEAM INTERACTION: Reported to creative director, interacted directly with marketing representatives and worked with photographers, artists, printers and media sales people.
    PROJECTS: Print advertising campaigns, signage, newsletters, direct mail pieces, billboards, sales support materials, identity development, web page design
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Created and oversaw marketing projects through print production.

    GRAPHIC DESIGNER

    Fortis Inc. (Time Insurance)
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    CLIENTS: Five internal marketing departments
    TEAM INTERACTION: Reported to graphics supervisor and interacted directly with marketers, photographers, artists and printers.
    PROJECTS: Product brochures, print advertising campaigns, signage, newsletters, direct mail, marketing kits, sales support materials, identity development, forms
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Designed, edited and wrote product collateral materials adhering to corporate image and policy.

    FREELANCE TECHNICAL DESIGNER/WRITER/ILLUSTRATOR

    Almon Studio
    Waukesha, Wisconsin
    CLIENTS: Johnson Controls, GE Medical and other Fortune 500 companies
    TEAM INTERACTION: Reported to Almon Studio's project manager and to client, worked with information experts that included engineers and was responsible for an assistant.
    PROJECTS: Product catalogs, technical illustrations
    RESPONSIBILITIES: Functioned as the lead technical writer/designer for product catalogs; trained and oversaw workflow of an assistant; trained client employees in FrameMaker and illustrated technical drawings.
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Asked back two years later to handle revisions for Johnson Controls.

    FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER

    (1991-Current)
    CLIENTS: Panduit, Chicago Tribune, Littelfuse, Ball Horticultural Company, Ball Publishing, I'd Rather be Grilling, Riverside Publishing, Square D, Johnson Controls, GE Medical, Ad 2 Milwaukee, Downers Grove Junior Woman's Club, Dentistry for the Health Conscious, Harley Davidson, Star Language Lab, Baird, Warner, Genworth Financial Securities
    PROJECTS: Brochures, advertisements, banner advertisements, magazine pages, identity and much more

    EDUCATION

    St. Norbert College, DePere, Wisconsin, May 1990, BA in Graphic Communication and Concentrations in Biology and Marketing/Advertising

    PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS

    Downers Grove Junior Woman's Club
    Present: Society of Technical Communicators
    Judge for the Society of Technical Communicators Annual Competition
    Chairperson of Milwaukee Advertising Club's 1996 Career Day
    Secretary/Treasurer, Special Event/Education Director of Ad 2 Milwaukee (Ad 2 Milwaukee and Milwaukee Advertising Club are members of AAF (American Advertising Federation))

    AWARDS

    Rookie of the Year" Downers Grove Junior Woman's Club
    Placed 3rd in Education Efforts for AAF National Club Competition
    Girl Scout Gold Award
    Trees For Tomorrow, Eagle River, Wisconsin participant (I was one of four students awarded this honor)
    John F. Kennedy Service/Leadership Scholarship
    Sandy Ninigar Award (High School Spirit Award) for service and leadership to school and community

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    Appleton, Wisconsin

    leeann@leeannjack.com

    920.574.7394...

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