jm3d.co.uk

Jamie McDonnell

Emy Destinnove 866
Velke Prilepy 25264
Praha Zapad
Czech Republic
jamie.mcdonnell@gmail.com

objective

To provide clear, creative, usable, effective design solutions for web front end, traditional print design and related digital mediums. I work well when defining a front end to suit a business solution, or re-defining an existing solution that is not working for firm, or user, as they would like. My contact is "jamie( . ) mcdonnell ( at ) gmail ( . ) com"

skills

Design from business description to high-finish graphic presentational mockup.
Information architectural structuring to achieve simple, intuitive navigation.
Defining work flows through wire-frame prototyping to achieve optimum user experience
Building the front end in HTML / CSS / javascript / flash (actionscript 3) as appropriate.

work experience

web designer / front end developer / solutions architect

July 1st 2008 > present day 360Cities.net Prague

Designing, developing and evolving public facing pages of 360Cities. This includes brand management, front end production, user testing and graphic design.

Freelance Multimedia Designer / User Experience Consultant

Summer 2000 - Present day - Jm3D Productions Where ever I am needed

I work as a freelance graphic artist, mainly producing interface and web design, interactive widgets and full website projects.

Driven by an insight into how people use the web and how effective web marketing can benefit a company on many facets, this is my inspiration and helps me when finding a suitable web solution for my client.

Wether working remotely or along-side my client, I deliver on time, understand the process of web development from conception to publishing and insist on providing a result that out-performs what is expected of it.

Senior Web Designer / Art Director

December 2006 - May 2008 Monster Technologies Prague, Czech Republic

Designing new pages, work flows and components for new projects and sites that fall under the Monster.com technologies product. Creating art work, logos and page idents for various countries home and landing pages. Localizing design solutions from external agencies.

Coding html, CSS and Actionscript for full pages and page elements such as media components. Assisting in defining and improving site architecture, user experience and work flow through different features and processes users will encounter while using Monster.com.

Front End Designer / Developer

May 2006 - December 2006 Monster Technologies Prague, Czech Republic

Research, design and development of vutting edge front end projects for Monster Labs. As well as graphic design, I learned a lot about application design (.NET), pure web development and object orientated programming in Actionscript.

New Media Designer

January 2005 - April 2006 Symbius Ltd Maidenhead, England

I worked with the Symbius Design studio in Maidenhead, England, as senior Graphic and New Media Designer, producing web design solutions, interactive interfaces, 3D modelling and animation, video editing and effects, and HTML based web design projects.

As a small team of 4 people we handled creative make-overs for many top-class clients including ARUP, British Airways, BP (British Petrol) and EcoCentroGen. was the main client contact on all new media projects, and helped guide them through their creative and technical challenges.

graphic / map technician

September 2003 - October 2004 Dumfries & Galloway Council Dumfries, Scotland, UK

I worked as a poster / visual material designer and Map Technician initially, but got involved in a wildlife film project that consumed half my career for the council filming, editing and producing DVDs of some rare birds that were found on the South Coast of Scotland.

I offered technical support for the planning department in the council, fixing computer issues and providing designs and prints for media when they were taking a project or presentation on the road. During the course of this employment I was working freelance as a designer / animator on a variety of video and web projects.

education

September 1998 - July 2000 Reading Art & Design College Reading, Berkshire HNVQ Level 2 Digital Graphic Design Graphic Design Distinction Grade Point Average

September 2000 - July 2003 Cumbria Institute of the Arts Cumbria, England BA(Hons) Multimedia Design & Digital Animation UI / Web Design and 3D Animation

references

For my references see my linkedIn account:, http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiemcdonnell

interests

I love art, design, visiting interesting places and drawing. Photography is a passion of mine, as is reading and going for a few pints when I have the time. I also like the gym, swimming and the sauna, they are good for the mind, body and soul :)