Ben Grefsrud

Responsibilities: Conceptualization, design and production of various pop-culture and pet products with a ‘geek-theme’, while working closely with Creative and Art Directors, other Designers and business stakeholders to provide a top-quality product, customized to fit the buyers needs.

Responsibilities: Creating graphics and UX for a number of Microsoft Apportal apps, while retaining impeccable attention to detail and working closely with a variety of stakeholders.

Designer, Amazon Kindle Marketing, May 2013 – July 2013 *contract position via Aquent
Responsibilities: Creation and production of a variety of marketing assets for Amazon Kindle & Kindle-related products, while maintaining tight brand standards in a clean and coherent manner.

Designer, Amazon Prime, May 2010 – October 2010 *contract position via TEKsystems
Responsibilities: Working closely with stakeholders to create compelling, attention-grabbing graphics and to help establish a campaign style and direction for current and forthcoming ads promote and increase revenue for Amazon Prime.

Product Designer, March 2012 – June 2012 *contract position via Filter
Responsibilities: Design and upkeep of a variety of interface icons, as well as UX & graphics, for coming releases of Visual Studio, Office and other applications.

Designer, Microsoft Research, April 2011 – October 2011 *contract position via Volt
Worked closely with stakeholders to uphold an enticing home page and graphic representation on the Microsoft Research site.

Graphic/UX Designer, Microsoft Advertising, October 2010 – February 2011 *contract position via Volt
Responsibilities: Working closely with UX Researchers, Business Team and Developers, as well as Lead Designers to conceptualize, wire-frame, comp-up and ultimately produce final assets for a variety of UI situations, while maintaining utmost clarity of the final solution, as well as applying modern and universal design standards.

UX Designer, MSN, December 2007 – November 2008 *contract position via Filter
Responsible for the design of a new portion of the site as well as redesign and polishing of existing sections. Worked closely with business and Developers in implementation of these projects.

Design Editor/Illustrator, msnbc.com, March 2007 – December 2007 *contract position via Sakson & Taylor/Aquent
Responsible for the upkeep of current design elements, stages, graphics and a number of editorial illustrations. It was a very fast paced and fulfilling design experience.

(Contract position through TAC Worldwide)
Responsibilities included: Providing quick and interesting direct-mail pieces in a variety of sizes and styles, as well as post-scripting and digitally delivering designed and updated pieces to the appropriate vendors for printing.