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Chad Tempest
UX / User Experience Design Director and Consultant
for brands including American Express, AOL and Dun & Bradstreet.
Work samples available at TempestUX.com
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Business-focused creative lead with a proven track record of guiding established companies from reactive approaches to innovative solutions utilizing proficiencies in usability, conceptualization, visualization and design methodologies
Specialties: UX, UI, IA, user experience, usability, art direction, design, wireframes, information architecture, user interface, user workflow and personas, project management, prototyping, documentation, concept and execution, back-end and client-side developmentExperience- May 2013 - PresentDirector of Experience Design / Dun and Bradstreet
- May 1999 - PresentDesign / Development / UX Director / Consultant
Partial client list:
- Advanced Card Systems
- Archaeological Institute of America
- Bag the Habit
- Car Talk on NPR
- Dubworks Photography
- Echo Engineering
- Gaming Green Pages & New England Gaming News
- Gucci
- The Horn Group
- Launch Snowboards
- Peter Trumbull Crellin Fine Furniture
- Sara Wight Photography
- Storyville Apps - Mar 2011 - Apr 2013UX Design Lead, Innovation Lab / Dun and Bradstreet
Partnering with internal stakeholders to conceptualize, prototype and test potential sources of revenue growth in mobile and web-based data products.
Building and managing a team of designers -- while constructing and embedding design process and methodology -- within a functional product group.
- Sept 2010 - Sept 2012Co-founder / CMO / Rentrr
Landlord and Tenant CRM apps
- Jul 2007 - Mar 2011UX Lead / Senior UI Designer / AOL
• User Experience Lead for Winamp and AOL Video products. Senior UI / Visual Designer across various entertainment properties including Black Voices, AOL Music, Moviefone and AOL Television.
• Translated complex technical, business and product requirements into new functionality, page layouts and user experiences.
• Refined existing and created new interaction models based on site metrics, audience testing and consumer feedback.
• Advised managerial teams on best practices to enhance product delivery methods and improve overall advertising display and revenue.
• Managed and directed vendors and internal design teams.
- May 2007 - Jul 2007Senior UI Designer / TD Ameritrade
Redesign of Investment Advisor site
- Mar 2005 - May 2007Art Director / Senior Designer / Flightpath
• Completely re-concepted, re-named and re-branded web services company with leadership team (formerly Xworld) to reflect overall directional shift.
• Oversaw, educated and art directed designers and producers in latest web / SEO standards, layout, CSS, javascript, Actionscript and HTML composition and techniques as well as project scheduling and estimating.
• Led expansion of company's capabilities into Flash Video, Actionscript development (server/client-side) and other web 2.0 RIA technologies, in addition to design requirements, specification and documentation services.
• Branding, UI and IA lead for numerous clients including:
- American Express
- AOL
- Chock full o'Nuts
- Diageo
- Erno Laszlo Cosmetics
- Goya Foods
- Harvey Electronics
- Larry King Access
- The New Yorker
- Schering-Plough
- United Jewish Communities
- World Trade Center Memorial - Jul 2000 - Mar 2005Lead Designer / Developer / Clockwork Design Group, Inc.
• Architected and developed custom PHP/MySQL CMS solutions and workflows for clients such as SMPS Boston, Downtown Women's Club and Metric Corp.
• Responsible for transforming and growing company's primarily print-based revenue sources to include front-end web design, email marketing and development services (HTML, CSS, JS, Flash) while enforcing web standards and QA best practices.
• Design, production, advertising and branding strategy lead for numerous clients including:
- American Bar Association
- Bridgeline Software
- CB Richard Ellis
- Ernst and Young
- Goulston & Storrs
- Metric Corporation
- Precise Software
- Primavera
- Progress Software
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr - Mar 2000 - May 2000Intern / Keenan-Nagle Advertising
Education-
1997 - 2000Kutztown University of PennsylvaniaBFA in Communication Design
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Honors:Society for Marketing Professional Services: Corporate Brochure Legal Marketing Association: Identity Package W³ Award for creativity and innovation in web design
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