Timothy Hicks
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Stephen Long
Tim was an absolute pleasure to work with! He did a fantastic job leading Northrop Grumman’s part-time efforts on UX design and consulting with the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Tim is extremely informative about all aspects of the UX process including the research, design and usability. He has a real knack for quickly understanding the client’s business and making software applications easier to use and delight end users. I valued him for his experience and skills, positive attitude, enthusiasm for all things UX and ability to collaborate at all levels. Tim is a great asset to whomever he works with, and I would love the opportunity to work with him again.
Casey Kinsey
Tim and were peers in the Online / Advertising departments of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, where we collaborated frequently to build technology products for our internal teams and customers. Tim has an acute attention to detail, and his design work always focused on providing the best experience for customers and users of the software we built. I particularly recall Tim's ability to understand a customer and build extremely high quality branding products, even after only a brief consultation, leading to many "you've captured it perfectly" type moments from our own internal business as well as the advertisers we served. Tim was also keenly passionate about advancing technology is the business, and together we collaborated to build interactive advertising products that offered new experiences for our advertisers' customer and previously unattainable statistics for our advertisers. Tim often pushed for these types of innovations and did not hesitate to get involved when pursuing these endeavors involved using technologies and skills that were new to his workflow to achieve these goals. I highly recommend Tim, not just as a designer, but as an invaluable resource to the customer, and advocate of the customer's experience--something that any digital product must have in order to achieve success.
Stephen Long
Tim was an absolute pleasure to work with! He did a fantastic job leading Northrop Grumman’s part-time efforts on UX design and consulting with the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Tim is extremely informative about all aspects of the UX process including the research, design and usability. He has a real knack for quickly understanding the client’s business and making software applications easier to use and delight end users. I valued him for his experience and skills, positive attitude, enthusiasm for all things UX and ability to collaborate at all levels. Tim is a great asset to whomever he works with, and I would love the opportunity to work with him again.
Casey Kinsey
Tim and were peers in the Online / Advertising departments of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, where we collaborated frequently to build technology products for our internal teams and customers. Tim has an acute attention to detail, and his design work always focused on providing the best experience for customers and users of the software we built. I particularly recall Tim's ability to understand a customer and build extremely high quality branding products, even after only a brief consultation, leading to many "you've captured it perfectly" type moments from our own internal business as well as the advertisers we served. Tim was also keenly passionate about advancing technology is the business, and together we collaborated to build interactive advertising products that offered new experiences for our advertisers' customer and previously unattainable statistics for our advertisers. Tim often pushed for these types of innovations and did not hesitate to get involved when pursuing these endeavors involved using technologies and skills that were new to his workflow to achieve these goals. I highly recommend Tim, not just as a designer, but as an invaluable resource to the customer, and advocate of the customer's experience--something that any digital product must have in order to achieve success.
Stephen Long
Tim was an absolute pleasure to work with! He did a fantastic job leading Northrop Grumman’s part-time efforts on UX design and consulting with the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Tim is extremely informative about all aspects of the UX process including the research, design and usability. He has a real knack for quickly understanding the client’s business and making software applications easier to use and delight end users. I valued him for his experience and skills, positive attitude, enthusiasm for all things UX and ability to collaborate at all levels. Tim is a great asset to whomever he works with, and I would love the opportunity to work with him again.
Casey Kinsey
Tim and were peers in the Online / Advertising departments of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, where we collaborated frequently to build technology products for our internal teams and customers. Tim has an acute attention to detail, and his design work always focused on providing the best experience for customers and users of the software we built. I particularly recall Tim's ability to understand a customer and build extremely high quality branding products, even after only a brief consultation, leading to many "you've captured it perfectly" type moments from our own internal business as well as the advertisers we served. Tim was also keenly passionate about advancing technology is the business, and together we collaborated to build interactive advertising products that offered new experiences for our advertisers' customer and previously unattainable statistics for our advertisers. Tim often pushed for these types of innovations and did not hesitate to get involved when pursuing these endeavors involved using technologies and skills that were new to his workflow to achieve these goals. I highly recommend Tim, not just as a designer, but as an invaluable resource to the customer, and advocate of the customer's experience--something that any digital product must have in order to achieve success.
Stephen Long
Tim was an absolute pleasure to work with! He did a fantastic job leading Northrop Grumman’s part-time efforts on UX design and consulting with the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Tim is extremely informative about all aspects of the UX process including the research, design and usability. He has a real knack for quickly understanding the client’s business and making software applications easier to use and delight end users. I valued him for his experience and skills, positive attitude, enthusiasm for all things UX and ability to collaborate at all levels. Tim is a great asset to whomever he works with, and I would love the opportunity to work with him again.
Casey Kinsey
Tim and were peers in the Online / Advertising departments of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, where we collaborated frequently to build technology products for our internal teams and customers. Tim has an acute attention to detail, and his design work always focused on providing the best experience for customers and users of the software we built. I particularly recall Tim's ability to understand a customer and build extremely high quality branding products, even after only a brief consultation, leading to many "you've captured it perfectly" type moments from our own internal business as well as the advertisers we served. Tim was also keenly passionate about advancing technology is the business, and together we collaborated to build interactive advertising products that offered new experiences for our advertisers' customer and previously unattainable statistics for our advertisers. Tim often pushed for these types of innovations and did not hesitate to get involved when pursuing these endeavors involved using technologies and skills that were new to his workflow to achieve these goals. I highly recommend Tim, not just as a designer, but as an invaluable resource to the customer, and advocate of the customer's experience--something that any digital product must have in order to achieve success.
Experience
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Focus Laboratories Inc.
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr. Visual Designer
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Jan 2019 - Present
As Senior Visual Designer, I play an integral role in the creative development and execution of product marketing, product branding, and consumer reception of the product. My many roles encompass; creating a positive creative team-work environment, collaborating and partnering up with product managers, product development, as well as interacting and guiding developers for our many digital assets as a Sr. UI/UX Designer. I worked with the Marketing Director to meet the standards of our many brands we had in place, by using research and design improvement processes and tools, needed to achieve our goals with great success.
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Owner / UI & UX Designer
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Jul 2016 - Jan 2019
Providing Creative Art Direction / Visual Design / UX & UI / Advertising / Animation / Print Design for all types of client work, including design and development of CMS websites, in both informational and e-commerce driven applications. Landing pages, microsites, animated HTML5 & static banners, advertising, collateral assets, promotional and fund-raising materials based on agency & client objectives; recommend appropriate and effective creative strategies; coordinate, consult & work with CMO's, creative directors, freelance writers, developers, and photographers. My work experience has allowed me to join with national & regional clients to build better brands, increase sales, and help communications, and relationships for my clients.
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Creative Director
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Aug 2016 - May 2018
As the Creative Director, I worked with copywriters, graphic designers, web designers, developers, account managers, brand managers and other marketers on a daily basis to make sure the quality and objectives are being met for our clients. While serving clients and team, my work duties consisted of: managing a creative team in an advertising agency. Approve or reject advertising campaign ideas. Ensure team meets deadlines and stays within budget. Attend photo shoots and supervise production team. Determine what makes products appealing to consumers through focus groups, surveys, etc. Develop unique, new concepts for our clients and the products they produce. Conceive, develop and produce effective advertising campaigns. Work with account executives to determine client needs and budget, and ensure campaign(s) stay within budget. Create and present storyboards of ideas. Perform search engine optimization techniques. And oversee campaigns from production to completion.
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Northrop Grumman
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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UX/UI Designer - Contractor
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Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product(s) UX/UI direction. Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering. Conceptualize effective user proven ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to many design roadblocks. Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders. Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback. And worked with product managers and team to establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards.
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Newspaper Publishing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Sr. UX & UI Designer/Developer
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Feb 2010 - Aug 2016
Collaborated with Digital Director, Sales team(s), Writers, Developers, and Account Executives to create fresh and engaging online experiences for our News subscribers and the general public. This work was manifested in responsive mobile/web design/development, third-party mobile app design, HTML5 design & development, brand design for product releases, and advertising/marketing design for internal and external client needs. I was the lead designer for the award-winning re-launch of UX/UI focused ArkansasOnline.com. And, lead the designs for many of the Palmer Papers online websites run by the parent company WEHCO Media. I had the great opportunity design & developed the responsive email marketing solution for our paper-centric and online advertisers. My primary duties have included taking the creative brief from concept to wireframe, to design, to front-end development, then working with a very talented team to integrate into our development structure.
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Owner / UI & UX Designer
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Jul 2008 - Feb 2010
Provide Creative Art Direction and Development for all work: Websites, E-Commerce, Landing Pages, Microsites, Flash & Static Banners, Advertising, Collateral, Promotional and Fund-raising Materials based on client objectives; recommend appropriate and effective creative strategies; Coordinate with Creative Directors, freelance writers, developers and photographers; Work with national & regional clients such as Acxiom, Notre Dame, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas Parks & Tourism, and The Family Money Show.
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Stone Ward
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Sr. UI/UX/Multimedia Designer & Developer
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Jul 2002 - Jul 2008
Collaborated with Creative Directors, teams of designers, writers, developers, account planners and media to create fresh award-winning online experiences that integrate holistically with the brand and supporting mediums. Worked on national clients such as Terminix, Tru Green, Meineke, TCBY, ABF, Checkfree and Regional clients such as Entergy, Bancorpsouth and LR Chamber of Commerce. Duties included taking creative brief from concept, to sketch, to design, to FLASH or XHTML development, then on to web.
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