Jimmy Simmons

5010 w 67th St J I M M Y Prairie Village, KS 66208 SIMMONS 913.626.6777 JSIMMONSCREATIVE.COM [email protected]

SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN Graduation: June 2018

MAJOR ABOUT USER EXPERIENCE My passion for laughter and individualism has led me to the design community where I thrive as a MINORS multi-diciplinary UX designer specializing in visual GRAPHIC DESIGN design, front-end development, user interface and user experience design. Prototyping interactions and ADVERTISING bringing designs to life with motion graphics and animation has served as a valuable skill and a hobby CREATIVE SUITE TOOLS that I implement whenever possible. User research, conceptual validation and design thinking methods PROFICIENCY IN: PROFICIENCY IN: are integral in my process for creating innovative PHOTOSHOP SKETCH products and services. I am driven by the possibili- ILLUSTRATOR PRINCIPAL ties technology presents to inﬂuence the minds of INDESIGN HTML/CSS our generation. At 23 years young, I’m a small town AFTER EFFECTS JAVASCRIPT Kansas native with global aspiration.

WORK EXPERIENCE

DIGITAL EXPERIENCE DESIGNER USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER Advent (Jun 17 - Jan 18) HP Sponsored Collaboration | September 16 - Dec 16 Digital Experience Designer assisting in the Served as a UX Designer in a collaboration with creation of dynamic, inspiring, and engaging HP & SCAD working to research and develop the brand spaces & experiences for corporate, next frontier for the process of printing. Began educational, and civic institutions. A focus in with extensive design research, followed by wireframe development, UI/UX design, prototype ideation, concept development, form exploration, validation, user testing & frontend development. and interface design completed over a 12 weeks.

USER EXPERIENCE INTERN INTERACTIVE WEB DEVELOPER Publisher’s Clearing House Digital | June - September 15 www.Belikin.com | The Storied Brand | June 17 - Present Worked closely with developers on Publisher Lead Web Developer with a focus on UX and Clearing House’s digital team maintaining, testing, mobile interactions for Belikin: The national and designing extensively for three of PCH’s brewery of Belize. Collaboration with marketing mobile applications on Android and iOS and research team to understand Belizean (Realbucks Go, Realbucks TV & PCH Lotto). lifestyle along with technology and network Created personas, wireframes, prototypes and constraints to deliver an exclusive experience for conducted design research over 3 mo. internship. Belikin patrons with beer sold only in Belize.

BRANDING & WEB DEVELOPMENT GRAPHIC DESIGN INTERN Cratus Capital, LLC. | June 16 - Current Artwork Studio Inc. | June - September 14 www.cratuscapital.com | www.facebook.com/CratusCapital Member of creative team in control of entire process of Lead Web Developer and Graphic Designer for interior decor remodel for select Applebee’s locations social, print, and branding material launching across the nation. Researched and collected local Cratus Capital into the Savannah local business images representing “America’s Favorite Neighbor”. scene. Creating original content to engage Member of the design team for IHOP decor prototype client's on Facebook with motion graphic development. Project focus: Design of environmental episodes teaching users the investment process. branded graphics.

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