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Fidelity Investments, FeB Design : Marlborough, MA
03/07 – Present
Web Style Guide Reviewer / Visual Design
- Reviewed new Web 2.0 projects featuring retirement planning tools and workstations ensuring adherence to the corporate style guide and usability guidelines
- Provided recommendations for visual direction, user interface and interaction while keeping usability and accessibility in mind
- Communicated from wire frames an effective visual solution using proper branding, styling and components while employing the latest web standards
- Translated findings from usability testing to ensure an effective and usable product
- Created and maintained graphic assets for products and corporate style guide
- Developed rapid prototypes to convey user scenarios
- Produced product specific style guides and development handoff specifications
EMC Corporation : Franklin, MA 8/06 – 12/06
Web Designer
- Played key role in designing an interactive internal website
- Established design standards, style guide and templates for entire project
- Conducted simple usability test to validate the site’s approachability, clarity and usefulness
- Communicated with owners, systems, business and development ensuring all goals and requirements are met
Fidelity Investments : Boston, MA 2/06 - 7/06
Web Designer
- Created and enhanced the design of Fidelity internal websites with focus in client usability
- Designed logos, illustrations, graphics and business collateral for both web and print
- Worked with customers independently and with teams to gather design requirements, communicated expectations and acquired client approval at each stage of a design project
- Managed the intake and scheduling of design projects and provided management reporting
- Worked with business analysts and software development teams in formulating design needs and seeing the implementation to its completion
Webs Are Us WebsAreUs.com
: Boston, MA 4/02 – 1/06
Lead Web/Graphic Designer
- Designed and maintained over thirty commercial websites ranging from fields in the real estate, automotive, education, construction, retail, healthcare and legal industries
- Improved website relevancy by using search engine optimization and monthly submissions
- Developed interactive flash animations, product demos and banner ads
- Created advertisements, product packaging, logos and collateral
- Responsible for generating monthly e-newsletters and e-mail campaigns to over 800 clients
- Involved with client relations, customer support and backend administration
Fun Enterprises: South Weymouth, MA 3/97– Present
Senior Caricature Artist
- Entertained clients with full color caricatures, airbrushed T–shirts, and henna tattoos
- Drew tourists in downtown Boston at the historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace
- Traveled nationwide, drawing at hundreds of high schools and colleges, and private and corporate events
- Researched, developed and managed the “Henna Tattoo” and the “Chinese Name Painting” programs
Digital Learning Interactive: Medford, MA 1/00 - 8/01
Interactive Designer
- Created Interactive Flash movies for “Dis Donc,” an interactive French online textbook
- Responsible for art direction of product, character development, user interface screens and graphic assets library
- Specialized in using phonemes in character lip-synching
Intermetrics : Burlington, MA 12/97 – 3/98
Conceptual Artist
- Developed concept sketches and illustrations for ‘Mini Racer’ a third-person Nintendo racing console game
Looking Glass Studios : Cambridge, MA 9/96 –
11/97
2D Artist
- Built texture map library, designed user interface screens and digital illustrations for ‘Flight II Unlimited,’ a first-person flight simulator CD ROM game
- Illustrated cut-scene animations for ‘Thief: The Dark Project,’ a first-person RPG CD ROM game
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Credits
Activision Studios : Los Angeles, CA 12/95 –
3/96
Illustrator
- Produced thirty illustrations for ‘Zork Nemesis,’ a first-person strategy CD ROM game
MCV Arts : CA & MA, 3/96 – Present
Freelance Designer
Henry Holt & Company
Painted jacket illustration for "Life Magic", a young
adult's book
Four Flowers Oriental Medicine Four-Flowers.com
Designed website for acupuncture health clinic.
ADCO Diamond AdcoDiamond.com
Developed flash website for jewelry business.
Redpoint LLC RedpointLLC.net
Logo and website design for structural steel detailing company.
Rich Hill Illustrations for Simons & Schuster, Inc.
Digitally colored several dozen illustrations for ESL workbook
titled "Word for Word," for Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Edufusion, LLC
Worked on flash interactive modules and illustrations for Spanish learning tools.
Backbone Entertainment, Inc.
Produced concept sketches for scenes for Willy Wonka PC Game.
Floodgate Entertainment
Developed conceptual digital illustrations for CD ROM game.
Genetic Anomalies
Provided illustrations for “Chron X,” an online collectable
card game.
Cynseria, Inc. Featured
in Boston Magazine
Illustrated concepts sketches for "A Bug Brigade,"
a children's book. Marlon also created the poster for "A Passport to the Arts: A Midnight
in Paris," a fashion runway event and arts exhibit for The
Boston Center for the Arts.
Various Projects
- Wah Lum Athletic Association – Various T-Shirt Designs
Signage & Illustrations
- Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Kay – Nursery Mural
- AARTPACK – Illustration for Business Collateral
- Koliba Photography – Logo
- University Of Massachusetts, Boston – Logo
- Mindent – Web design mockup
- Presto Technologies – Icons
- Big
Fat Records – Digital illustration
- Irrational Games – Three concept paintings
- Low Magazine – Mixed-media art
- Corazon del Fuego – Logo
- Fearless Records – T-Shirt design
- 33:3 – CD jacket cover
- Warhate – CD Cover
- Crawl – CD Cover
- Antares – CD Cover
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