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©2007, Chris Maverick

Chris Maverick

mav@elseworld.com
(412) 885-7469

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. June, 1992 - May 1998
Double B.A. in Creative Writing/Literary and Cultural Studies with a minor in Art
Course-work included: Creative Writing, Computer Science/Programming, Art/Design, Cultural Studies, Rhetorical Studies, Professional and Technical Writing, Desktop Publishing

Employment

Freelance Contractor - Graphic Artist/Interface Programmer – 1994 – Present
Visual design, layout, content writing and editing, prototyping, usability testing and reporting, and implementation on a number of projects for various clients in the artistic, architectural, visual design, web application, software development and desktop publishing realms.

Including: websites, software packages, concert promotions, art galleries, literary journals, video game design, music videos, comic books, web sites, enterprise software applications and T-shirts. See Major Contracts (below) for details regarding long term contract work.

Collaborative Fusion Inc. - Information Architect – September 2007 – January 2010
Duties include: Design and development of businesss rules for proprietary web applications. Information architecture desig and application flow structure. User interface and experience development, wireframes and mock-ups. Visual desig, documentation, usability testing and quality assurance.

CombineNet - Software Engineer – July 2004 – October 2005
Duties include: Design and development of implementation code and databases for production websites for Fortune 500 company auction events. Design and development of software and interfaces for future CombineNet projects in both ASP model and thin client interfaces. Improvements of User Interface for existing CombineNet projects.

Design and implementation and integration of proprietary utilities optimization software suite. Contextual analysis of utility company business practices for design.

MAYA Design - Interaction Designer – July 1998 - July 2002
Duties include: design, prototyping and testing of a variety of products in physical, software and web realms. Information Architecture and Design. Software design and Development.

Expert Analysis of product and system usability. Contextual analysis of business practices and working environments. User testing, video editing, technical writing and documentation, proposal and report writing. System and application level QA testing. Also responsible for the tabulation of results, analysis and generation of final reports.

Also served as system and network administrator, responsible for mail and web servers and the installation and maintenance of a network of servers and workstations including Linux, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and SunOS/Solaris machines.

Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon - Systems Programmer – Aug 1994 - July 1998
Duties include: programming, debugging and maintaining of software. File System and Account maintenance and support. Operating System installation, patching and maintenance. Responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and repair of the mail and news systems as well as General and Expert troubleshooting, consulting, help desk and systems support for the user community. Supported software and operating system installation as well as network troubleshooting and system programming.

MAJOR CONTRACTS

Vision Benefits of America - UI Designer/Information Architect – March 2006 – January 2007
Duties include: Design of the user interface for an insurance claim portal to be used by patients and healthcare professionals. Usability analysis and recommendation building. Requirements gathering and use case specifications. Screen flow, navigation and information architecture design and development. User Interface wireframing, visual and graphic design.

Affiliated Computing Services - Usability Engineer/Information Architect – November 2005 – July 2006
Duties include: Design of information architecture for commercial production software and website products. Design of user-friendly interfaces for those products and usability testing and analysis. Wireframe and prototype production. Usability testing and report writing. Content writing and development. HTML and CSS coding. Requirements and design documentation.

Helium Networks - HCI Consultant – January 2005 – Present
Duties include: expert evaluation, analysis and redesign of user interface for proprietary software package dealing with wireless networking management and administration. Recommendations to information architecture, application structure and experience and graphic and interface look and feel.

CEI America - UI Designer – February 2004 – April 2004
Duties include: design, programming, testing and implementation of graphical interfaces and web sites for the firm and clients of the firm. Graphic design and content development of print and email media. CMM process development and interviewing of prospective employees for international development team. Content writing and editing. Logo design.

MAYA Design - Software Engineer – August 2003 – October 2003
Duties include: design, programming, testing and implementation of prototype and production digital sign and wayfinding system. Responsible for the implementation and design of the Macromedia Flash prototype and some of the back-end systems that run the software. Development of the SQL(Access) and XML backend that run the content management system for the project. Assisted in interface and content template design.

TechRx - UI Designer – November 2002 – June 2003
Duties include: design, prototyping and testing of pharmacy database and workflow management system. Design, prototyping, testing and implementation of proprietary peer-to-peer pharmacy transaction system.

Implemented design methodology utilizing information architecture, rapid-prototyping and user-testing leading into an iterative design process.

PUBLICATIONS

PRESENATIONS

Lights, A Photographic Exploration – 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Featured Artist. An art exhibit based on my photographic series, Black and Light.

Pittsburgh Comicon – 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Featured Artist/Publisher. An art exhibit based on my comic book and photographic glamour project photographic series, Cosmic Hellcats.

Good vs. Evil – 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Featured Artist. An art exhibit based on my comic book and photographic glamour project photographic series, Cosmic Hellcats.

365 Days Video Podcast – 2007-2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania & Montgomery, Alabama
Host. A photography instruction class presented as a podcast and cable access show teaching viewers both photography techniques and skills as well as design philosophy and encouraging growth in photography as a means of self-expression.

The National Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Annual Conference – 2007, Boston, Massachusetts
Featured Speaker on Masculinities Panel. A discussion based on my paper, My Life as a Professional Wrestler, A Firsthand Analysis of Professional Wrestling as Performance Art.

Capturing Pittsburgh – 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Featured Artist. An art exhibit based on my photographic series, 365 Days: One Year of a Life Lived on the Internet.

SKILLS

Graphic and Web Design (Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Painter, Fireworks, Flash, Director, Dreamweaver and others), Programming (Python, Perl, DHTML, Javascript, Actionscript, XML, C, Objective C (Cocoa), SQL, PHP, and others), System Administration (Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, Mac OS 9/X, Linux, Solaris and other Unix Systems, IMAP and other mail systems, Apache Web Server, TCP/IP, and others), Professional and Technical Writing, Graphic and Information Design, Social and Cultural Theory, Employee Management, Person-to-Person Interaction Skills, Symantec ITA & Net.Prowler certified.

ORGANIZATIONS

ACM, ACM: SIGCHI, ACM: SIGGRAPH, Kappa Delta Rho Men's Fraternity alumnus, Oakland Review Literary Journal, Association of Writing Professionals. Pop Culture Association

References available upon request.