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Karen A. Jones Design
Director
503.922.3079• karen@kjdesign.com
• www.kjdesign.com
• Website, user interface, and motion designer with broad marketing
and interactive media background
• Consultant with Fortune 500 client base
• Effective project manager, communicator, and instructor
• Strong conceptual and technical skills
Design
Director 2000-present
Karen Jones Design •
Portland, OR www.kjdesign.com
Director of small graphic design studio.
Develop the conceptual and design direction
of print and web-based marketing material. Create
brand identities, creative strategies, and design
documents. Manage creative milestones and staffing
requirements for multiple projects. Create graphics
from concept to final production for marketing
presentations, press or web publishing. Design
video graphics for Interactive TV and create
animations for broadcast television. Develop
look/feel for internet sites and intranet training
modules. Write copy, design and produce animated,
dynamic, and static marketing graphics for the
web.
User
Interface Design Consultant 1998-2000
Fidelity Investments Retail Electronic Commerce
• Boston, MA
Designed user interfaces for investment planning tools on Fidelity.com.
Attended usability studies on Fidelity products; communicated outcomes
and recommended next steps to management, business sponsors, and development
teams. Developed strategies on how to improve the usability of products
and design processes. Collaborated with internal business units, including
senior management, project managers, information architects, developers,
editors, and outside vendors.
Freelance
User Interface Designer 1994-1998
Designed look and feel treatments, created prototypes
and evaluated usability of software interfaces
for educational, training, and marketing CD-ROMs.
Consulted with business stakeholders, subject
matter experts, and human factors specialists
to determine appropriate visual look and feel
for task-based training and educational software,
database design tools, and consumer products.
Created and revised UI flowcharts and storyboards.
Specified treatments for navigation, organizing
content, prompts for user input, visual framework,
and stylistic elements. Managed design workflow.
Motion
Graphics Designer/Producer 1992-1994
John Hancock Life Insurance, Inc. • Boston,
MA
Designed logos and thematic graphics for video
modules. Translated design concepts into storyboard
elements; supervised editing and production.
Animator,
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? 1991-1992
WGBH• Boston, MA
Created animations for children's television game show. Developed
animation concepts from weekly storylines. Painted backgrounds in Photoshop.
Imported drawings and created character motion in Director. Lip-synching,
sound editing
Presentation
Producer 1990-1991
Digital Equipment Corporation • Bedford, MA
Collaborated with business principals, speechwriters, and marketing staff
to produce video, multi-image, and speaker support presentations. Created
storyboards and design specification documents. Directed computer graphic
artists; managed budgets and resources.
Graphic Artist
1987-1990
Cornerstone Associates • Waltham MA
Assisted Art Director in creating animated presentation graphics.
Teaching
Experience
Adjunct Instructor,
Art Institute of Portland, OR 2000-2002
Taught computer applications courses for undergraduates.
Computer Fundamentals: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Internet, theory,
Windows 2000
Image Manipulation: design, theory, and Photoshop 7.0.
Adjunct Instructor, Columbia Gorge Community College
The Dalles, OR 1999-2003
Taught computer applications courses for credit and continuing education.
Photoshop 6.0, MS Office /Intro to PCs: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint.
Adjunct
Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art
Portland, OR 1999-2000
Taught BFA and Continuing Education classes in digital design and animation
using Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Image Ready on the Macintosh.
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Web
design samples:
Ben Neubauer, Metalsmith
Gather Design
Port of Skamania County
Gorge Telecom Consortium
Software Skills
Graphics & Animation
After Effects
Director
Final Cut Pro, Media100
Flash, Actionscript
Freehand
Illustrator
InDesign
Infini-D
Painter
Photoshop
Premiere
Quark
Web Development
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Flash, Actionscript
FTP
GifBuilder
HTML, CSS
ImageReady
Working Knowledge
ASP
C++
CGI, Perl
DHTML
Java
Lingo
PHP
Office & Database
Filemaker
MS Access
MS Excel
MS Powerpoint
MS Project
MS Word
Visio
Awards
New Media Invision Awards:
DIME Interactive
• Invision Award of Excellence
• Gold, Young Adult Education
• Finalist, Best Interface Design, 1995
Association for Multi-Image,
New England
• Camera Graphics, Bronze Award, 1989
Education
Smith College, Northampton, MA
• BA Art, 1986
• Concentration in Architectural Studies
• Dean’s List
Personal
• Volunteer
- Sunday Potluck
- Big Sisters
• Athlete & wellness enthusiast.
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