Dan Poynor

Dan Poynor

Creative Director for UX, Interactive, and Visual Design

Location
Austin, Texas Area
Industry
Design
Current
  1. Dan Poynor Design
Previous
  1. Adobe,
  2. Yahoo!,
  3. Adteractive
Education
  1. California Institute of the Arts
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Summary

Dan's body of work shows more than artistic talent, it represents successful collaborations between a client, himself, and others in reaching defined goals. He is comfortable working with established styleguides or creating new innovative solutions. Dan defines design as the ability to control a medium and apply thoughtful and responsive messaging which communicates effectively. With this intent he has developed above average skills in all necessary production and design needs in both print and interactive arenas.

With a solid foundation of design and production experience, combined with on-going education, Dan will consistently exceed goals and maximize your overall return on investment.

• Over 10 years B2C and B2B experience working with global brands.

• Hands-on experience with concept development, presentation, design strategy, and project management.

• Strong knowledge in direct response and brand marketing to large audiences with strategic communication requirements.

• Comfortable working with tight deadlines and meeting targeted milestones in fast paced environments.

• Experienced at providing creative guidance and leadership within multidisciplinary teams.

• Can maintain high quality style guide and brand management standards.

• Solid understanding of what's doable on the web and print media environments.

• Comfortable learning and working with new technologies as needed.

• Degreed and certified by CalArts, UC Berkeley, and Adobe.

Experience

  • Freelance Designer / Developer / Director

    Dan Poynor Design
    – Present (16 years)Austin, Texas Area

    As an independent design consultant I specialize in personalized service primarily focused on gathering objectives, product marketing ideas, content assets, and creative input from business stakeholders and then presenting potential solutions, devising production plans, and creating final products for use within both large organizations and small companies. Project tasks typically include development of content, navigation, visual design, strategic branding, prototyping of new functionality, and final production.

    Specialities: Creative strategy, UX design, art direction, visual design, brand extension, development, website maintenance, CSS3, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, WordPress, wireframes, landing pages, banner ads, print advertising, print production, lifestyle photography, product photography, illustration, photo manipulation, package design, mockups, and prototypes.

  • Creative / Webmaster

    Adobe
    – (1 year 8 months)

  • Creative Director

    Yahoo!
    – (1 year)

  • Art Director

    Adteractive
    – (8 months)

  • Interactive Art Director

    HP
    – (2 years 2 months)

  • Lead Screen Designer

    AOL
    – (2 years)

  • Freelance Designer and Production Artist

    The MacPhee Group
    – (1 year 5 months)

  • Contract Corporate Communications Specialist

    Health Net
    – (1 year 6 months)

  • Intern

    Studio Dumbar
    – (less than a year)

  • Intern

    Total Identity
    – (less than a year)

Certifications

Skills

Education

  • California Institute of the Arts

    BFA, Visual Communications
    –

  • University of California, Berkeley

    Professional Certificate, UNIX/Linux System Administration
    –

    Activities and Societies: Berkeley Extension Program courses completed in marketing, management and organization, competitive analysis, linux systems administration, and psychology.

  • Seminars for Success: Google Analytics Advanced Topics & Implementation Training

    Certificate of Completion, Google Analytics
    –

  • Marketing Experiments Professional Certification Program

    Professional Certification, Landing Page Optimization
    –

    Completed August 2009

    Activities and Societies: Member of the Marketing Experiment Group

  • Seminars for Success: Google Website Optimizer & Landing Page Conversion Testing

    Certificate of Completion, Google Website Optimizer
    –

  • Austin Community College: Rio Grande

    Austin, TX

  • Auburndale High School

    Auburndale, Florida

  • Westchester High School

    Los Angeles, California

  • McCallum High School

    Austin, Texas

  • Orville Wright Middle School

    Los Angeles, CA

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  • We hired Dan to help redesign our website. He did a great job at creating a design that was clean, clear and most importantly driven by the goals of our site - ie. converting visitors into leads.
  • Dan is great to work with. Not only is he very prompt with the deliverables, but he provides great options and is very thorough. He is also very easy to work with and always makes you feel that your needs...no matter how urgent or last minute, are no problem!

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