Michael Cummings

Wells Fargo Bank F.A.

San Francisco, CA | (800) 869-3557

Senior User Experience Designer

• Translating business requirements into intuitive user experience design solutions
• Participating in user experience research (UXR) and usability testing efforts
• Developing mockups with interaction rules (UI specification) from a synthesis of corporate customer/user needs, technical capabilities, and business strategy
• Supporting a large-scale team on multi-year project for Wells Fargo's corporate (wholesale) treasury management solution
• Applying a thorough understanding of both front-end development frameworks and back-end systems

CRC Health Group Inc.

Cupertino, CA | (877) 637-6237

Senior Web Producer

• Created compelling Web site designs and online marketing campaigns
• Developed coding specifications based on web standards and best practices
• Utilized the latest proven SEO techniques
• Employed analytics and web quality assurance tools and techniques to improve brand experience and conversion
• Created and enhance in-house tools to manage web site operations
• Designed User Interface for customized Salesforce CRM application using advanced AJAX framework

Customer-Centered Interactive

Palo Alto, CA | 650.283.7236

Interaction Desginer/Producer

• Responsible for all aspects of client engagement to plan, design, and produce purpose-fulfilling interactive experiences
• Strategy, branding / identity and user-friendly interaction design for creative services agencies, corporations, non-profit, educational, and governmental organizations
• By applying proven best practices, information gathering methodologies, and the full breadth of my experience, I discover and affirm commonality between end-user and organizational goals to consistently deliver wider market acceptance, increased message comprehension, and application ease-of-use
• Client's include Elemental Interactive (Coka Cola, IBM), Momentum Design Lab (IsoSpace, SelectLeaders), MetaByte (hotdoodle.com) and many others

Aquent

Silicon Valley, CA | 408.626.5100

International marketing and creative staffing agency

Web Designer

• Through Aquent I have served such companies as Franklin Templeton Investments, Seagate Technology, Patrick Mountain Advertising, Sic'm Advertising, Natus Medical, Scree Interactive, KrushMedia and others. In each engagement I advocated for discovering and meeting user needs, and strove to improve project planning, information organization, usability, and coding to WC3 standards
• Contact placement agent Susan Alvarez for client feedback

AtreNet

Santa Cruz, CA | 831.464.0100

Project Manager

• Project coordination and documentation responsibilities for top clients such as Borland, EnterpriseDB, AcceptSoftware, Cenzic, and others
• Defined and maintained project schedules and budgets, conducted meetings to facilitate design, content development, and web development efforts through smooth project phase progression.
• Manageed client expectations at President/CEO level
• Asset management and version control for web site launches, redesigns, localization and print marketing/collateral design projects
• Supported Sales/CEO in marketing and sales efforts.

VirtualMotors

Royal Oaks, CA | 831. 763-1777

Graphic Designer/Web Producer

• Collaborated with company founders for strategic planning, identity, branding, messaging, visual design
• Project management project, implemented collaboration TWiki and facilitated all project related communication
• Integration of server-side technologies for content management and contact routing
• Collaborated with IT Director for database integration with distributed software system

Silicon Valley College

San Jose, CA | 888.203.9947

Silicon Valley College aquired by Western Career College May 2003

Instructor, Web Interface Design

• Responsible for course delivery of Web Interface Design, Web Development and Multimedia courses. Using instruction methods to facilitate dialog, doubt regression and humor, I led students through comprehensive web/multimedia planning, design, production quality measurement processes
• Lectures and exercises included information labeling and organization problem solving, content and functionality mapping, UI conventions, interface prototyping, color psychology, computer generated color issues, web image optimization, usability testing and web development process maturity. I also led students through A/V capture issues, video post-production applications and streaming media delivery
• I also revised course curriculum to reflect best contemporary practices and developed the online Web Interface Design course using WebCT

Seagate Technology

Scotts Valley, CA | 831.438.6550

Project Coordinator

• For Seagate's Web Group, an interdisciplinary team of designers and developers, I improved team efficiency by relentless attention to methods, project stakeholder awareness and expectations, and updating intranet information and project tracking systems
• As the graphics approval authority for Seagate.com, I ensured graphics and layout consistency across thousands of screens to maintain design standards and, by extension, brand trust
• I successfully advocated for internal web quality assurance, for browser compatibility and usability, resulting in the establishment of QA standards and an in-house test lab

Valley Design Group

Menlo Park, CA | 650.327.0771

Web Designer

• In support of their newly formed Web Department, I joined this long-standing graphic design and marketing communications firm after graduating from Platt College. I was quickly entrusted with both client and vendor support responsibilities, and ensured interface design work was as functional as aesthetically pleasing
• I produced web and kiosk-based information access systems on schedule for blue chip Silicon Valley clients:Thermawave, Silicon Valley Group (SVG), KLA Tencor and others. By year's end I eagerly sought greater challenges in an environment with more experience with interactive media