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Chris Merkel

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Location

Alameda, CA, United States

Doing Business As

Spikesource, Inc.

URL

http://www.spikesource.com

Creative Fields

Art Direction, Interaction Design, Web Design

Tags

Spikesource, Xerox, interaction designer, user interface designer, minnesota tribe

Overview & Objective

I am a design leader with 14 years of design experience in web sites, application interfaces, print, and visual identity, and I have served such clients as Microsoft, Intel, Xerox, Yahoo, and Ask.com.
My drive is to lead multi-disciplinary teams to develop innovative solutions to user experience design challenges.

Key Skills and Qualifications

* 12+ years of experience in visual design and user experience
* Worked in several large brands: Xerox, Yahoo, Intel, Ask.com
* Managed design teams in direction, methodology and style
* Brainstormed and collaborated with technology, marketing and business development
* Assisted in pitches, proposals, and project initiation
* Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, and familiar with several programming languages for coordinating with engineers

Career Highlights

* Intel Corporation: I lead the visual and interactive design for the Intel Software Partner Program's software certification, development and automated testing tools, launched in 2008
* Microsoft: My user experience design for Windows Server 2008 pilot program was so successful and game-changing that the company is expanding the program in 2009
* Xerox Corporation: My 2005 and 2006 redesigns of Xerox.com saw an increase of 40% in traffic and up to 25% in user actions and sales leads
* Yahoo! Inc: The "Real People" campaign of Yahoo! Personals that I produced was the first of its kind at Yahoo to be developed around real users of the product

Chris Merkel on the Web

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http://www.behance.net/merkelwerks

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