Richard Ruiz For address and phone numbers, please contact me via email. Email: richard@ruizdesigns.com Portfolio: www.ruizdesigns.com S u m m a r y: _______________________________________________ Creative and detail-oriented designer with nearly 10 years of experience in interactive, graphic and corporate information design. Focused on internet/intranet design with exposure in traditional graphic design as evidenced by work in both identity and illustration. Breadth of experience in branding, information, web and graphic design. T e c h n i c a l S k i l l s: _______________________________________________ Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Image Ready | Macromedia Dreamweaver | Macromedia Flash | Macromedia HomeSite | Microsoft Front Page | HTML | DHTML | JavaScript | Cascading Style Sheets | Active Server Pages P r o f e s s i o n a l E x p e r i e n c e: _______________________________________________ Ruiz Designs, Houston, TX 2000 - Present Self-owned firm offering graphic and web design/development solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. Freelance Designer Designed and developed over a dozen web sites, from start to finish, for clients in the Houston metropolitan area, throughout Texas, Georgia, New Jersey and Madrid Spain, often in both English and Spanish Created effective identity solutions which span all media applications, from stationery to signage systems, for several Houston based businesses. _______________________________________________ JPMorgan Chase, Houston, TX 2000 - 2003 Leading global financial services firm with assets of $742 billion that provides investment banking, asset management, private banking, equity and transaction services. Interactive Designer Successfully redesigned the five geographical hubs of the JPMorgan Chase global intranet that increased site usability for the 95,000 employees by providing easier-to-use tools and resources to locate information. Developed a wide range of identity solutions and associated creative collateral for business units throughout JPMorgan Chase, increasing brand recognition and familiarity among employees, vendors and the public. Designed and developed a user-friendly web interface to display and process legacy mainframe data, increasing employee productivity while streamlining the flow of information between the user and the back-end system. The project’s success influenced the redesign of similar financial data front-end products within the company. Designed and maintained over three dozen intranet web sites for various business units within JPMorgan Chase. _______________________________________________ Microsoft Corporation, Houston, TX 1997 - 2000 Leading global technology firm. Interactive Designer Specialist in the development and production of internet advertisements for Microsoft msn and sidewalk.com web sites. Production of internet advertisements entailed meeting with advertising clients to photograph, layout, design, copy write and create ads on paper and/or desktop publishing systems. Developed advertisements which met the needs of the client and attracted internet users to the clients web site while matching the specifications set by Microsoft. Provided a high level of customer service through all stages of the ad creation process. Worked closely with ad development managers, account executives and local office staff to support and further the success of msn's efficiency. Pro-actively identified with Workflow, suggested solutions for improvement, and contributed to the long term success of the project. Designed and maintained over sixty Houston area client web sites and or advertisements to be displayed on msn and sidewalk.com. Developed a client proofing system which was approved for nationwide use . _______________________________________________ Education The Art Institute of Houston Degree of Associate of Applied Science in Graphic Design _______________________________________________ References Provided upon request.