Passionate Visual Designer that brings fresh focus and dedication to a design team that demands excellence. User Experience perfectionist who keeps abreast of current and future industry trends. Efficiently constructs clean, intuitive UI for the web, smart devices and interactive media that exhibit results-driven, esthetically elegant simplicity.
Specialties: Visual Design, UX Design and Multiplatform Production Design
Visual Designer @ Accounts: Google Search Ads/Apex Systems
Provides Visual Design, UX Design, user research and commercial experiences for Google Search; seen by millions of people daily. Focuses on efficiency, collaboration, and flawless attention to detail. Uses influencing and relationship-building skills to provide a Google-caliber design service. Anticipates how decisions are made, constantly suggest new ideas for improvements to concepts and processes. From February 2015 to Present (11 months) UX Production Designer @ Accounts: Google Fiber/Apex Systems
Bridged the communication gap between Design and Engineering teams by providing production design support for new Google Fiber products and features. Worked with Design, Product Management and Marketing to propose design solutions for clearly scoped features and create mocks for development. Provide production-ready graphics, pixel-perfect specs and Material Design templates from mock-up designs. From August 2014 to January 2015 (6 months) Visual Designer / Computing Infrastructure Engineer @ In charge of Visual Design and production of proprietary military websites and software. Provided support for architecture, data flow diagrams, software analysis and testing for various missions. From 2011 to 2014 (3 years) Freelance Graphic Designer / UX Designer @ Accounts: Cloudbase3, Tom's IT Pro, American Express, C3SV, Anchor TV, Rize Above Media, RAM, Tap’d In, Bayview Hope CDC, Heli-Mart, CloneSkills, Excellor, and Nu Horizons Electronics. From 2007 to 2014 (7 years) Graphic Designer / Information Systems Technician @ At the Historic Onizuka Air Force Station, designed NSOM event collateral. Performed corrective and preventive maintenance on AFSCN Mission Secure Communications equipment. From 2009 to 2010 (1 year) Graphic Designer @ Accounts: Boeing, TRW, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman
Government contractor for the Schriever Space Complex. Served as a results-oriented, decisive lead designer, who shattered the limits of mediocrity to achieve greatness by establishing an award winning design team. Coordinated a wide array of projects including web design, print collateral, trade show displays, and branding from concept to completion.
• Worked closely with colleagues and clients to create vision, conceive designs and consistently meet deadlines and rigorous demands of military officials.
• Assisted in building websites allowing them to flourish in the military field.
• In charge of digital file organization, backup and product research.
• Monitored quality control over all design projects allowing us to thrive as a renowned art department. From 1997 to 2007 (10 years) Lip Sync Animator @ Performed as a Lip Sync Animator for the cartoon feature film, “South Park Bigger Longer and Uncut.”
• Animated mouth movements of characters and synchronized to match celebrity voices.
• Met stringent deadlines in making one of the most controversial cartoon films of our time a reality. From 1999 to 2000 (1 year) Production Artist / Graphic Designer @ Contributed in launching Walt Disney into the digital age by designing interactive media products. Projects included production of websites, package design, and marketing material.
• Scanned original Disney artwork from paint medium and digitally recreated as vector based art. From 1996 to 1997 (1 year)
Certification, Web Design / User Experience Design @ University of California, Santa Cruz From 2011 to 2012 Certification, Visual Communications / Graphic Design @ Los Angeles Trade Technical College From 1993 to 1996 3D Animation/Design @ Art Center College of Design Scott Ellsworth is skilled in: Graphic Design, Logo Design, Graphics, Web Design, User Experience, User Interface Design, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Production Design, Web Site Production, Concept Development, Advertising, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash
Websites:
http://swankdezign.com/