Jacqueline Arnot
Web Design : Creative Direction

Powerful Creative Director with senior-level web design, interactive design, user interface skills and SEO expertise. 15 years experience as sole proprietor of a web design studio, creative lead in an in-house corporate environment and agency experience.

..Develops web sites and online applications from conception and planning through integration and maintenance
..Possesses deep knowledge of branding, design and user experience
..Leads teams of designers and developers to create products that promote usability and user experience
..Ability to communicate and interface well with technical & non-technical team members
..Excellent organizational, time management, communication, and presentation skills
..Deeply passionate about learning new techniques and technologies

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arnot..interactive : Principal : San Rafael : CA March 2004 .. present

Formed full service web design studio offering highly personalized creative direction, web design and integration. Clients include :

..BubbasFineDiner.com : Extended the brand of this popular local fixture to the web. Creative direction, visual design, user interface design, photography, copy writing, html, CSS and SEO.

..PublishersWeekly.com : In collaboration with the President and head of IT, designed the theme for proprietary CMS and increased usability. Launched in record time. Creative direction, CMS design, banner ads, online marketing.

..GuyLawson.com : Creative direction, design and implementation of web site showcasing work of widely published
author and journalist.

..MayaKaimal.com : Redesign of existing site for award-winning fine food entrepreneur. Collaborated with graphic designer, created Store Locator, centralized style sheets, added Google Analytics, customized Facebook page.

..LundyBancroft.com : Redesign and reorganization of existing site for award winning author. Increased usability,
enhancing user experience.

Thomson Financial : Creative Director : New York City : March 1998 .. March 2004

Formed in-house Internet solution. Assembled high-caliber Web team. Successfully led the front-end team to create multiple “clone” sites by individualizing style sheets for each client cutting back on costly development time. Managed designers, writers, coders, illustrators and photographers. Hired outside consultants. Strategized with chairman and executive vice-president. Coordinated and scheduled work with account managers and developers. Responsible for visual design, user interface design, information architecture, html , CSS, banner ads and maintenance of web-sites including :

..IRChannel.com : Dynamic, highly customizable investor relations web site which migrated company cd-rom distribution to
centralized internet solution.

..adr.com : adrWISE : adrInSite : 3 on-line financial applications for client JP Morgan. These sites were all clones using Thomson IRChannel’s back – end.

..TSE Edge : Investor relations site for the Toronto Stock Exchange. Another clone, re-skinned.

Waters Design Associates : Designer : New York City : April 1996 .. March 1998

..IBM S/390 ExecClub : Developed concept for password protected, database driven web-site for company's largest client. Responsible for weekly updates. Created original imagery, wrote HTML. Coordinated programming of macros, cgi-scripts, Java applets, live chats. Hired illustrators and photographers. Supervised production artists.

..Scandinavian Pavilion : Created illustrations for home page of transactional web site for MicroSoft Network™.

Freelance Designer : New York City : 1995 .. 1996

..NewsWeek Magazine Media Buzz : Designed pre-Clinton election web site for Mezzina Brown Interactive.

..Capezzana.it : Design, illustration, html, maintenance.

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Education :
Cornell University : BFA Painting and Printmaking : Dean’s List : Evelyn King Stone Memorial Prize

Skills :
Fluent Italian and French. Some Danish.

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