Profile
I'm an interactive designer and director in San Francisco, CA with over 8 years of experience. I enjoy using my creativity while collaborating with clients to produce high quality products. Through research and empathy, I'm able to understand a project's direction and the audience it intends to reach.
Skills
Always ready to work. I love what I do and am motivated to do more. I'm eager to work with teams, share knowledge and combine skills to produce excellent work.
Organization, leadership, direction and project management. From concept to deployment, I work on many stages of a project. I am proficient in combining user experience, information architecture and design.
Skilled in designing for interactive websites, mobile applications, content, video, animation and print. Experienced in HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and Content Management Systems.
Technical
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- After Effects
- Fireworks
- Omnigraffle
- Final Cut
- HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Keynote and Powerpoint
- Wordpress
- Expression Engine
- PHP/MySQL
Experience
BDNA Corporation
2012-present
Creative Director of Marketing
2014-present
Assistant Creative Director
2012-2014
Visual, Web, UX and UI design.
BDNA provides the most comprehensive, accurate view into an organization’s IT infrastructure in order to drive critical IT processes and projects such as Windows 7 migration, vendor audits, true ups, app compatibility, software licensing and more. From IT administrators to managers to executives, BDNA transforms data into information and delivers business-relevant information required to accelerate corporate initiatives. Technopedia, the world’s largest catalog of IT product information on more than 90,000 enterprise IT products with more than 14 million market data points, helps more than 350 companies dramatically increase their IT visibility.
Freelance Designer / Director
(Self Employed)
2009-2015
Freelance Web, UI and UX design and direction for web applications, mobile applications (iPhone and Android platforms), and branding.
UpCounsel
Creative Director / Lead Designer
2011-2013
UpCounsel is a legal marketplace that caters to businesses and startups. You can post jobs explaining your legal needs and connect with talented attorneys via online bids. There is also an extensive library of free, community created documents and guides.
I was brought on as the Lead Designer to concept and design the product in collaboration with the CEO and CTO. As Lead Designer, I manage and design the UI, UX, website content, marketing / promotional content, branding, animation, video and print materials. This position has given me experience in building a company from the ground up, project management and direction, and large scale interactive, UI and UX design strategy.
Cobra Creative
Interactive Designer
2008-2012
Interactive Designer and Production Artist for web applications, interactive flash sites, large-scale campaigns, CMS driven html / css sites, mobile applications for iPhone and Android, brand design, content creation, animation, video and print materials.
Clients included: Clif Bar, Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Capital One, Asics, Cheetos, Youtube, Method, STP, Sutter Health, Suzuki, The History Channel, Autodesk and Kenmore.
Cobra Creative is a digital agency, and like digital agencies everywhere we're all about interactivity. But, the kind of interactivity we're focused on goes beyond any digital device. It's interactivity that inspires real people to do real things in the real world.
Education
Augustana College - Rock Island, IL
Dual Major, Business and French
Intermediate Japanese and French
Ryan Bolin — contact@ryanbolin.com — (309) - 453-4059