mattcorcoran.com

Over 1 Billion Pixels Served

Resume

Summary of Professional Qualifications

  • Possess the talent, skills, experience, and determination to be dangerous to your competitors.
  • Highly respectful of guidelines, but able to break restrictions of normal boundaries.
  • Tactful, innovate problem solver, can easily identify and meet needs and goals.
  • Communicate effectively with necessary contacts to ensure project deadlines and specifications are met.
  • Live to undertake new challenges head-on.

Summary of Skill Set

Languages
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
Software
  • Adobe Creative Suite (CS): Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Illustrator CS, and ImageReady CS
  • Dreamweaver and Flash MX 2004
  • Google applications: Analytics, Sitemaps, Blogger & Trends
  • Axialis IconWorkshop
  • Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio & SharePoint

Education

Art Institute of Dallas - Associate of Applied Arts in Computer Animation
Graduated: September 1999 - Dallas, Texas

Experience

RamQuest Software, Inc. - Marketing Developer

October 2002 - Present

Differentiated RamQuest in the Title Software marketplace with an overhaul of branding, advertising campaigns, and marketing materials. Designed, developed, and managed the brand, content, and delivery of corporate, portal, client support, and user group web sites; prospect and customer e-newsletters, branding and marketing materials for products and services, trade show presence, and even wrote white papers, press releases, and articles for distribution in the industry. Responsibilities also include product user interface design to reinforce the brand, and increase usability to reduce the customer's time for completing tasks and overhead to manage the enterprise software solution.

mattcorcoran.com - Freelance Designer

November 2001 - Present

Completed several projects including complete corporate identity packages, user interface design for web applications, instructional animations with Macromedia Flash, and many other new media dilemmas requiring scalable solutions. List of clients includes:

  • Technology Resources International, LLC
  • Global Financial Aid Services, Inc.
  • LifeSpace
  • Specialty Graphics, Inc.
  • EMR America, LLC
  • United Title of Texas, Inc.
  • PhaseWare, LLC
  • Plus many more
Intelemedia Communications - Graphic and Web Designer

May 2001 - November 2001

As a full-time contractor, did any graphic work Intelemedia needed. Designed the company web site, sales materials, presentation templates and graphics for prospective clients. Designed sites, user interfaces for web applications and many other materials for existing and potential clients, such as Post Nexus, Survey USA and Nationwide.

Brookhaven College - Interactive Media Instructor

January 2001 - July 2001

Taught Macromedia Flash to both credit and non-credit students. Created curriculum, lesson plans, course overview, tests, quizzes, and project assignments. Enriched the practical training of Flash by teaching and reinforcing the basics of animation, interactivity, and interface design.

Coollink Broadcast Network - Interactive Visual Designer

January 2000 - April 2001

Worked with a team to create and establish the corporate brand, and to design and maintain company site. Streamlined design and production procedures for streaming media ads and browser-based streaming audio player skins. Created several sales presentations using Macromedia Flash that served as foundations of Business Development and Sales presentations to prospects.

Nortel Networks - Retain Programmer

June 1999 - January 2000

Assembled and organized Retain Courses, a CD-ROM training product for Nortel and its clients. Extensive use of QuickTime Pro to assemble media for integration into Authorware shells, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for graphic content, and Adobe After Effects for animations.

References available upon request.