Stephen Kelly : Design / CV
Summary
As a professional designer, I seek to:
- Work within a collaborative, tightly knit, and dedicated design team.
- Create useful, usable, and desirable designs that satisfy the goals of the people who interact with them as well as those of the organisation that produces them.
- Contribute to the development of products and services that aim to make things easier for people, even if only in small, subtle, or indirect ways.
Tools and Techniques
- Fluent: User experience design processes and techniques, Accessibility, HTML/XHTML, CSS, Cross-platform and cross-browser consistency, SEO, JavaScript, DOM Script, AJAX, jQuery, XML, XSL, Homesite.
- Proficient: Google Maps API, Interwoven Teamsite templating, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, colour and typography theory.
- Working Knowledge: Microformats, PHP, Perl, Weblogic, JSP.
Experience
The Automobile Association
Design Technical Lead (1996 - Present)- Responsible for user experience design, client-side development, accessibility, technical standards and guidelines of the theAA.com (including the Route Planner, Maps, Traffic News, Breakdown Assistance, Insurance, Savings, Travel and Motoring Advice) since it's launch in 1997.
- Accessibility champion for theAA.com. It is my responsibility to champion accessibility on behalf of our users to the AA e-commerce department.
- SEO champion for the design, development and editorial teams.
- Administration of Google Mini.
- Administration of Interwoven Teamsite.
- Wrote XHTML and CSS standards-based CMS templates.
- Authored the Automobile Association's web accessibility guidelines document 2001. The guidelines are used by other sites owned (at the time) by Centrica including www.centrica.co.uk, www.house.co.uk and www.goldfish.com.
- Responsible for training and development of the design and development teams.
- Collaborate closely with developers, content writers, business change managers, analysts and third party suppliers.
- Designed and developed digital TV site.
- Designed and developed multimedia CD-ROMs.
Round One Media Ltd
Design Team Lead (1994 - 1996)- Lead designer for Penguin Books "The Magic World of Beatrix Potter" and other multimedia CD-ROMs.
- Responsible for interactive design, graphic design, storyboarding, usability testing and specification.
- Authored "The Magic World" using mTropolis object oriented software.
- Designed and developed web sites.
- Administration of studio hardware/software.
- Administration of North Devon's first Internet service, hardware/software.
- Collaborated closely with developers, content writers, researchers, composers and third party suppliers.
- Designed and developed prototype multimedia CD-i discs.
Education
Brunel University, Surrey
1990 - 1994- Industrial Design BSc (Hons)
University of Warwick, Warwickshire
1989 - 1990- Engineering FdA
North Devon College, Devon
1987 - 1989- 'A' Level Pure & Applied Maths
- 'A' Level Physics
- 'A' Level Electronics
- 'AO' Level Pure & Applied Maths
- 'AO' Level Electronics
Pilton School, Devon
1981 - 1987- Eight 'O' Levels
Contact Me
I'm not presently looking for work, however I'm always interested in a good idea. If you think I'd be interested in your idea and could help you, contact me and lets talk.