BACKGROUND

Goal Oriented Design

DSC Studio understands your audiences. We make their needs, expectations and experiences our top priority. We make our technologies invisible to our users and create web sites that appeal to them rationally and emotionally. In short, we create web sites that are interactive, dynamic, compelling, easy-to-use and most importantly keep our users happy and establish strong long-term relationships with them.

About the Developer

Daniel S. Chen
Multimedia & Web Developer

SKILLS

Software

Industry Standard: Adobe Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS, InDesign CS, Acrobat Professional, Macromedia Contribute 2, Director MX, Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004, SoundEdit 16, Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Microsoft Project 2000, Microsoft Visio, ProCreate Painter, Real Producer, Swift 3D, Optimaze, 3D Studio Max
Working Knowledge: Media 100, Maya, Windows Media Encoder, Vegas Audio, Fireworks, QuickTime Pro, Premiere, After Effects, Filemaker Pro, TOAD, CVS, Eclipse

Programming

Industry Standard: HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash ActionScript, Database design and set up
Working Knowledge: ASP, PHP, Java, JSP, Struts and Tiles, UML, XML, CGI/Perl, mySQL, SQL, VRML, Director Lingo, Mel Script

Hardware: Set up small networks, servers, troubleshooting problems and add/remove components

Language: English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese

Artistic: Watercolor, oil, colored pencil, pastel, pen and ink, acrylic, solo piano, choir, small ensemble

EXPERIENCE

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY — LIVERMORE , CA 05/2003 – Present
Web Developer & UI Designer & Graphic Designer

Provide advanced support in web analysis and optimization, information architecture, usability, accessibility, visual design, user interface design, client/server side programming for both external and internal sites at LLNL
Provide and facilitate hands-on training sessions, and mentoring for employees. Develop training materials, document templates, web production methodologies for different web-related technologies.
Create and implement web-based enterprise application Graphic User Interface (GUI); document GUI standards and guidelines and work with the software engineering team to implement software to the web
Design and maintain dynamic web framework, navigation and complete quality assurance process including standard guidelines for ongoing review and release of web-based information in complex, secured environment
Create effective methods for website maintenance, content collection from multiple divisions; reinforce consistent quality and style of pages, train web administrators to maintain site areas and QA their work
Rewrite and maintain an application that interactively displays the latest news, scorecard, and statistic on plasma TV throughout various locations in the Laboratory
Create interactive web-based multimedia training courses for LLNL
Design, produce, and revise publication materials, intermediate-to-complex illustrations, graphs, brochures, interactive materials and poster displays

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR / CONSULTANT — LIVERMORE , CA 11/2000 – Present
Multimedia and Web Developer

APG Media, San Francisco , CA 08/2002 – 05/2003
Project Manager / Web Developer

Redesign project for APG Media website

Design and develop both web interface and dynamic site infrastructure

Developed training resources by setting up the source library with explanatory documentation for internal design team

File size management to optimize website download time

Lead both internal team and client meetings

Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, PHP, Flash

Kairos Systems Inc., Fremont , CA 04/2002 – 05/2002
Graphic Designer / Web Developer

Designed corporate logo and implemented both front & back end of the site

Optimized website for search engines

Clarified copyright clearance by researching Internet law

Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, DHTML, PHP, Flash

AMD/Tyan Computer Corp., Fremont , CA 03/2001 – 06/2001
Interactive Flash Web Developer

Worked in a team environment to design Flash interactive demo of computer motherboard for international tradeshow demonstrations and website

Technologies: Flash, ActionScript

West Oaks Publishing Co., Houston , TX 11/2000 – 11/2001
Graphic Designer / Web Developer

Designed brochure and Flash e-commerce site to facilitate purchases

Developed content management site to allow the company to update website content

Created information resource center as part of the content management site to enable client to access billing, product, order, hosting, and site information

Technologies: Flash, ActionScript, PHP

VECTOR MARKETING CORPORATION, HOUSTON , TX 05/1998 – 02/1999
Field Sales Manager

Sold and marketed company's products: Cutco Cutlery
Provided trainings and tips in workshops to new sales representatives
Recognized as "Sales of the Year 1998" and "President's Club" of the company
Obtained highest career sale in Houston office in year of 1998
Achieved "Gulf Division 2nd Place Sales Team in Summer 1998"

EDUCATION

B.S., Multimedia & Web Design — The Art Institute of California–San Francisco
GPA: 3.8 — December 2003

The Art Institute of Houston. Houston, TX (07/2000 – 03/2001)
Coursework towards A.S., Multimedia & Web Design. GPA: 3.8

University of Houston - Central Campus. Houston, TX (08/1998 – 05/2000)
General Education and Business Coursework. GPA: 3.5

AWARDS

Directorate Award (Industrial Partnership and Commercialization) — Administration and Human Resources Directorate (LLNL)
Best Practices Example Website (Plant Engineering Safety Campaign) — Department of Energy (DOE)
Best of Portfolio Award in Bachelor Degree (Fall ’03) — The Art Institute of California - San Francisco
Best of Show — Houston Rodeo Art Show