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David Phillips

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I am an energetic and hard working designer recently graduated from ITP, seeking a UX position that fits my skill set and personality with opportunities to learn. Coming from a creative background, I provide a right brained perspective on problem solving. I love rapid prototyping, learning from mistakes, and healthily obsessing over details -
in short, every element of the process.

Education

ITP, New York University

Degree: MPS, Interactive Telecommunications

Santa Clara University

Degree: BA, Theatre & Dance

Skills

Office skills

Office and records management, inter-personal skills, event organization, teamwork skills

Computer skills

Keynote, Adobe CS5, Textmate, HTML5, CSS3, JS, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Wordpress, Git, Sinatra
Learning:Rails, DataMapper, Java/Android, Mobile Processing

Experience

Control Group Design Technologist - New York, NY - 2011-(Current)

  • Many hats, including product vision, wireframes, visual design, and front end.
  • Worked alongside partners for pitch presentations.

TechStars HackStar - New York, NY - Summer 2011

  • Free agent product designer amongst 12 selected TechStars companies.
  • Product vision, wireframes, visual design, branding, and front end.
  • Actively engaged with mentors and partners.

Apple Product Design Intern for MobileMe - Cupertino, CA - 2010

  • Coordinated and supported an international design team
  • Maintained style guides for impending MobileMe products
  • Brainstorm, illustration, and wireframing interactive products
  • Pitched and presented upcoming projects directly to Apple executives

Arkany Design Web Designer - North Hollywood, CA - 2004-2008

  • Supervised teams of up to six designers to handle various projects in multiple time zones
  • Directed workflow & project development, assigned projects to lower level employees
  • Primary liaison for clientele, actively listened, aided in concept from vague to concrete
References
Available on request