OBJECTIVE

Senior Web/User Interface Designer, Associate Art Director

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

User Experience Designer, 2005 – present
Yahoo! Taiwan, Taipei
  • Created and redesigned portal sites to accomplish business goals and fulfill users’ needs
  • Delivered mockups, flowchart, wireframe, moodboard and HTML web pages
  • Developed new design process model for better project quality and resource allocation
  • Worked closely with multi-functions (product managers, researchers, engineers) to ensure high quality design deliverables that were on time and aligned with product goals
  • Mentor for junior designers and new-hires
Visual Communicator, 2005 March – 2005 July
Uni-president PRESCO, Taipei
  • Constructed a corporate identity system for a traveling agency franchise
  • Designed promotional campaign sites
  • Decorated brand image for the travel agency office
Designer, 2002 – 2005
Costa Leclerc Design Inc., Toronto
  • Developed interactive flash games/sites, ecommerce sites, promotional sites, EDM, etc
  • Assisted company to develop new clients in the Internet industry
  • Designed logos, brouchers, posters, magazines, books, etc
Freelancer, 2000– present
  • Worked independently from business negotiation, project scheduling, project direction, mockups designing, coding to backend database compiling

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Design Honor Degree, 1998 – 2002

Join Program of York University and Sheridan College, Toronto

Training and Certificates
  • Interaction Design training - Yahoo! US, 2007 Taipei
  • Interaction Design/Design Research conference - Yahoo! US, 2006 Taipei
  • Visual Design conference - Yahoo! US, 2005 Malaysia
  • PHP & MySQL certificate - University of Toronto, 2003 Toronto
  • ColdFusion Fast Track certificate - Macromedia, 2003 Toronto
  • QuarkXpress certificate - Seneca College, 1998 Toronto

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • PHP & MySQL
  • CSS (layer semantic markup)
  • Action Script
  • XHTML/XML
  • Javascript
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Dreaweaver/Edit Plus
  • Flash
  • Office
(on both Window and Mac OS platforms)

AWARDS

  • Honored with 2006 Yahoo! Taiwan UED professional awards
  • Nominated in the finalists of 2005 Canadian New Media Awards http://www.volt.tfo.org//ppr/index.cfm (Flash game)

LANGUAGE

Fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese

INTERESTS

Swimming, biking and traveling