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Resume

Ben Ullman
Graphic Designer/Art Director

ben@benullman.com
215-284-9023
http://www.benullman.com

Qualifications Summary
Eleven years experience in graphic design and art direction including print and web design, user interface design, multimedia design, and presentations. Skills include marketing and visual communications strategy, document design, information and interaction design, typography, copy writing, illustration, photography, and animation.

Computer Skills
PC and Mac platforms, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Freehand, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Fireworks, HTML, CSS, and Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Employment Experience
User Experience Designer, Bank of America
Charlotte, NC, July 2007 – Present
- Partnering with business and technology stakeholders to deliver world-class online banking experiences, web products, and marketing
- Facilitating interactions between company and customer via branding, interaction design, user interface design and production, visual standards governance, visual identity and icon design, information design, and presentations
- Involved in efforts to promote team collaboration, social media, knowledge management, and process improvement

Freelance Graphic Designer, BUdesigns
1991-Present
- Supplies clients with a variety of design services, including marketing and promotional materials, web design, logo development and corporate identity.
- Manages strategic partners and vendors.
- Clients include BMG Distribution, Ernst & Young LLP, Afroglyphics, Neoteric Media, Employer Services Corporation, and the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

Graphic Design Manager, Barclays Bank PLC
Wilmington, DE June 2004 – Present
- Managed all marketing creative services at one of the fastest growing credit card issuers in the U.S.
- Designed credit cards and all print and online acquisition materials including brochures, ads, applications, point-of-sale signage
- Designed customer communications including customer service websites, emails, letters, statements, gift cards, and special offers and promotions
- Worked with clients to gather requirements, expectations, desires, to develop a unique marketing plan for the product that supports the clients' existing branding
- Coordinated with vendors to ensure expectations are communicated and met, and to ensure a quality final product
- Redesigned customer account statements for improved usability, increased messaging and ad space, and decreased paper consumption.
- Implemented and maintained a database-driven job request and tracking system

Graphic Designer, Warner Construction Consultants
Rockville, MD June 2002-April 2004
- Managed the graphics operations of a nationally renowned consulting firm.
- Assisted in developing corporate and division-level marketing strategies and designs visual components including brochures, mailers and multimedia presentations.
- Managed graphics and publications workflow including reports, proposals, interactive presentations, and graphics for mediations, arbitrations and trials.

Graphic Designer, Precise Software Solutions, Inc.
Bethesda, MD January 2001-December 2001
- Provided graphic and interface design for the Mid-Atlantic division of an international software company.
- Worked with a team to improve usability and add new functionality to a software product, while integrating the product into the parent company's existing lineup.
- Compiled extensive user interface and interaction data, designed GUI interfaces, and other application graphics and collateral.
- Designed and programmed a CD-ROM intro and installation menu, as well as various Flash applications.
- Designed an online repository of R&D resources and division-specific information.
- Maintained and edited help systems and user manuals.

Graphic Designer, AtomicTangerine
Arlington, VA May 2000-December 2000
- Served as East Coast graphics leader for a venture consulting company based in Menlo Park, CA.
- Coordinated graphics workflow by assessing client needs and assigning projects to appropriate staff members.
- Designed internal and client-facing materials, including advertisements, publications, presentations, logos, interactive Flash content, animations, and other web graphics for the company and its subsidiaries.

Senior Graphic Artist, Robbins-Gioia, Inc.
Alexandria, VA July 1998-May 2000
- Led a team of marketing and publications employees in redesigning and implementing corporate identity.
- Designed logos, brochures, posters, advertisements, direct mail pieces, and promotional materials.
- Designed graphics for use on the corporate website, edited HTML web pages, and contributed to a redesign of the company�s E-commerce site.
- Coordinated print production of brochures, advertisements and other promotional materials with outside vendors.
- Improved procedures of production workflow and compiled quality control checklists.

Graphic Designer, Washington Post Apartment Showcase
Vienna, VA October 1997-June 1998
- Created monthly, 4-color publication in a deadline-oriented production department.
- Redesigned overall layout for new look and enhanced readability.
- Designed and updated advertisements, surveys, icons and related signage.

Production Artist, The New Haven Register Newspaper
New Haven, CT 1997
- Worked in the advertising department of a major news publication.
- Responsibilities included page layout, designing page headlines and special section logos, assisting clients in writing and editing advertisements and compiling inter-office materials.

Education
Visual Communications program, The George Washington University, Washington, DC December 1991 – 1995
Technique: Digital Artists at Work, Thunder Lizard Productions, New York, NY 1997
Project Management for Multimedia, EEI, Alexandria, VA 1999
Project Management for Publications, EEI, Alexandria, VA 1999
Mastering PhotoShop, CompuMaster, Washington, DC 1999
Presenting Data and Information, Edward Tufte, Arlington, VA 1999
Macromedia Flash, EEI, Alexandria, VA 2000
Web development 1 –3, EEI, Alexandria, VA 2000

Awards/Affiliations
Member, AIGA 2006 – 2007
Vice President, Publications, Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington 2001 – 2003
Innovation Philadelphia, Marketing Campaign for Philadelphia's Creative Economy
CityCreatives.com, icon design competition winner
aBetterEarth.org poster design, Judges Choice Award
Tarheel Trailblazers Mountain Bike Club, 2007 Trail Crew T-shirt design