Concur Site Redesign

Concur is the world’s leading provider of employee spend management services. They enable organizations to globally control costs by automating employee expense processes.

I was one of the lead designers on the Concur Redesign project, driving the visual direction after Jonah Sterling (Creative Director) laid down the ground work. I was also the liaison between the design and development practices by supporting the developers with all graphics and html they needed. Once we finalized the site and launched I created the flash movie demos that are currently on concur.com.

Concur.com shortly became a nominee for the prestigious '08 Webby Awards.

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Entellium Rave Site Redesign

Entellium Rave is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution. Designed by and with feedback from sales people who use CRM every day, as well as owners of small and medium-sized businesses.

For the launch of the Entellium ‘Rave’ product, I worked with the Entellium product teams and stakeholders to deliver an ‘out-of-the-box’ design solution to drive interest and transactions to their new WPF Customer Relationship Management tool titled Rave. I played the lead designer role under Jonah Sterling, Creative Director, for the first couple milestones and the UI developer for the last couple. On this project I had the chance to work on a Ruby On Rails development environment.

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Microsoft Exchange: exChange Your Career Site Design

Microsoft Exchange is a thriving and profitable part of Microsoft. The Exchange team has qualities of a mature and a brand-new product, so we had the chance to give them a site that would be remembered.

I played my usual role as a UX Designer on this project by storyboarding the information architecture and creating a few of the easier illustrations of the site. After the project was complete, and we still had budget to burn, I had the change to add a few flash Easter eggs throughout the site.

The exChange Your Career site is currently Ranked 7645 of 15032 at Command Shift 3, winning 100% of its battles.

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Microsoft Exchange: Club Vivek Conceptual Designs

After successfully completing the exChange Your Career site, the Microsoft Exchange Team came back for another creative dose on a different project code named Club Vivek.

I mainly played a visual designer role on this project as our deliverables were only to conceptualize what the web applications UI would look like. My approach was to keep the main task of creating your own private email address at hand by using a stepped wizard UI.

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Microsoft Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor

Vista Upgrade Advisor is a smart application that scans your computer and lets you know what needs to be upgraded before upgrading to Vista. Depending on your system configurtion it also will notify you which version of Vista you should use.

This was one of my bigger projects I've worked on. I worked with Microsoft Project Managers and Designers to come up with the visual direction they were looking for while following the Vista visual guidelines and the HIG. I designed and developed the HTML templates that housed the Vista Upgrade Advisor application.

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Microsoft Panorama Envisioning Project

The Panorama Team is the design team that supports the marketing and business development groups.

This was a 6 month long project that I worked onsite at Microsoft. The application we were envisioning was an applicaiton that would support the business development managers when they are offsite and offline. After interviewing a few of our key persona's I was able to come up with an SAAS solution that would be housed within their number one tool- MS Office Outlook. With my proposed solution I was able to accomplish a lot of their stress' with online/offline problems and organization issues.

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16 Mile Solutions Visibility Application

16 Mile Solutions re-invents the way supply chain management uses electronic data interchange (EDI). They develop EDI tools with web 2.0 technologies.

During the 16 Mile Solutions project I was able to explore how we can leverage AJAX technologies to streamline the order visibility process. During my research with AJAX I was able to redesign and clean up the UI.

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Ramp Group Site Redesign

Ramp is a custom software development company that takes on projects of all sizes and complexity. Their expertise includes the design and development of high-volume consumer applications, internal business applications, ad management, content management and business intelligence.

At my 3+ years I worked at Ramp I was able to touch and work on many projects. One of the internal project we had in ‘07 was to redesign the Ramp Group corporate website. We took the opportunity to mold the site to fit the Ramp Group culture, by adding some fun non-business like imagery, which clients loved. I was accountable for the final imagery selection, visual details, search engine optimization, and search engine marketing that is currently on rampgroup.com

Rampgroup.com is currently top 20% (2947 of 15033 sites) and ranked #6 in the Seattle region by Command Shift 3.

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Count Me In Site Redesign

Count Me In is a service provider for online registration, integrated webstores and league management software for sports league administrators.

When I took the redesign project for Count Me In the main thought that was running through my head was to kill their current site. Their current site does not do them any justice from an information architecture stand point nor from the design standpoint. Main problem I had when designing the site was that I had to work under the constraints of their Rainier Development Platform.

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We Energies Site Redesign

We Energies is the PUD of the midwest and probably the single biggest project I've worked on. We Energies looked to my team (Business Analyst, Samantha O'Hanlon and Director of Technology, Scot Fordyce) to establish account modification, usage data, & bill payment workflows.

For the We Energies project I was the lead designer for the envisoning and early design phases. Project deliverables included interaction maps, wireframes for there big bet workflows and a stab at establishing their brand.

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Shoreline Arts Promotional Poster

Shoreline City has a pretty big design following due to their design curriculum at their community college. During their art fair I was approached to design a typographic poster which helped promote the design curriculum at Shoreline Community College.

This was a 18” by 24” offset print promotional poster which was promoting typography and Fredrick Goudy. This was a fun project I did just for the hell of it.

Resonance Magazine Ads

Resonance Mag champions the independent creative spirit. With every issue they prospect the artistic spectrum, filter out the riff-raff, and bring savvy readers the innovative edge of modern music, film, literature and the arts.

I really like what Resonance Magazine has become thoughout the years. In '03 I made these advertisments that were in the '03 September Issue. (maybe? It might have been October '03) These ads were just regular half page full color prints.

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Crown Systems Tradeshow Booth

Crown Systems was a mechanical engineering company that made most of the worlds 35mm film developing accessories.

During my time spent there I was able to create and design 2 of the tradeshow booths for the Photo Marketing Association tradeshows. I worked with external vendors for printing and exhibit furniture under the supervision of the Global Vice President of Sales and Marketing of Crown Systems.

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Everett Surplus Promo Poster

Everett Surplus is a Military surplus store located in the heart of downtown Everett. A few years back they had extra gas masks hanging around that they wanted to get rid of, so they came to me to get a promotional poster designed.

This project was a quickie, the owner of the store wanted to stress how important it is to own a gas mask (I never really agreed with him!) so I was able to come up with a few smart quotes and a news article that I turned into a poster. This project included a good amount of photo and type manipulation in order to visually show the impact of the global warming crisis.

Accurate Marble & Tile Logo Design

Accurate Marble & Tile is a granite and marble construction shop that is the prefferred vendor for the Street of Dream Homes.

With this logo I wanted to grab the sophistication of the work they do, but at the same time keep it in the same color palette and simplistic image of their current logo and brand.

Concur & Product Icons

After the successful redesign of the Concur website that became a nominee for the '08 Webby Awards I was tasked to come up with a new set of product icons that would nicely mold to the feel of the new website.

After consulting with Jonah Sterling (Creative Director) I was able to come up with the 3D "box" design that would encompass a colored infographic on the cover that would distinguish the product from the other products.

Piranha Lox Logo Design

Piranha Lox is a patented locking mechanism that has the ability to hold heavy and large objects in its place securely, while being very small and some what invisible.

This was a joint venture I worked on with Marciano Lucero, 3D Animator and Designer. We wanted to capture the aggressive nature of piranha fishes within the logo but at the same time try and make it stand out as an icon. We ended up with many revisions which we finally were able to come up with a logo that was bold, aggressive, and strong − which exactly is the product.

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Procordia Design Logo Design

Procordia Design is an LLC that friend & I started to pick up freelance work. We have been around for about a year and steadily growing.

This was a joint venture I worked on with Rollo Mapallo, Artist & Designer, a contractor of Procordia Design. In this logo we wanted to give Procordia Design a brand that would withstand all the competition out in the world, but at the same time giving off the feel of superiority. We played off the Greek mythology character Pegasus, who was able to fly over all obstacles no matter how complex or devastating they were. Pegasus also has an identifying symbol to it that would work as a strong logo.