Robert Long

As the Creative Director for Gartner’s User Experience and Design group, I am responsible for the look, feel, and creative vision for all products in the Gartner client delivery portfolio with an emphasis on creating and communicating a global user-experience language with our design team as well as external vendor partners.
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• Provided design direction to our external digital design partners on Gartner’s research and Gartner Event Navigator Apps as well as one of largest redesigns in the company’s history to create Gartner’s “Next Gen” of products
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• Collaborate directly with product management and development groups to develop innovative applications that drive revenue and long-term client value
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• Documented and manage communication of Gartner’s interaction design pattern library, design principles and guidelines

As a senior interactive designer at Gartner I was responsible for the look and feel of Gartner prospect facing Web sites and client fulfillment product sites, which tailor Gartner insight to role based audiences.
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• Products included Gartner for IT Leaders, My Gartner, Summit Events, gartner.com, and Symposium ITxpo (the 2008 design won a Web Marketing Association Events Standard of Excellence Award)

As a senior interactive designer at Pitney Bowes I initiated the migration of all future Web initiatives from HTML table-based layout to CSS/xHTML page layout for greater Web Standards compliance as well as allowing for more creative possibilities on their Broadvision CMS platform
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• Served as a lead member of a cross functional team to implement the migration to modern CSS layout (offshore, inhouse, creative agency and IT), resulting in a paradigm shift on how Web pages would be created and maintained

As a multimedia designer at Hyperion I designed user interface designs for Hyperion’s corporate Web site and Hyperion branded intranets, kiosks, and CD-Roms as well as designing online animations, and e-mail campaigns
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• Managed the redesign of Hyperion’s corporate Web site, carrying the design through all phases of development, taking the design from creative brief, to creation of wireframes, presenting comps to senior management, coding the working prototype, creating hand off files for our developers, and finally documenting style guidelines and standards for Documentum CMS template creation

Involved in all aspects of the design and development of innovative internet, intranet projects and sales force multimedia CD-Rom presentations
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• Developed graphic user interfaces, created storyboards for the flow of the interactivity, and produced animated scenes for sales force presentations for clients such as PanAmSat, AT&T, Purdue Pharmaceutical, and CDRadio (now Sirius Satellite Radio)