Chris A. Raymond

Designer/Visual Problem Solver

Falls Church, VA, USA
I am retired from full-time employment but open to inquiries for:
• logo and identity design
• software QA and usability assessments

Work Experience

PBS

Senior UX Designer

Conduct user research, develop wireframes and user flows, design interactive experiences for digital education products for parents and teachers.
Virginia, United States

Consultant

UX, UI, Interaction Design

Specializing in interaction design, prototyping, and UI design, with a dash of content strategy and UI and UX writing.

Monster Government Solutions

Interaction/UX Designer

Led overhaul of Utility module of enterprise applicant tracking system, including:
• Conducting contextual inquiry
• Conducting remote usability testing and documenting user pain points
• Building screen flows and interactive prototypes for 20+ features within the module.
Virginia, United States

Speak Agent Inc

Senior UX Designer

Do visual and interface design, produce screenflows, wireframes and clickable prototypes, write user testing protocols, spec business and user requirements, for an online platform for teaching academic vocabulary to English language learners.
Maryland, United States

Roy Rosenzweig Center For History And New Media

Senior Web Designer/Creative Lead

Designed and coded web sites for historians and the public, and designed print collateral in support of the Center's web projects.
Virginia, United States

Roy Rosenzweig Center For History And New Media

Web Designer

Virginia, United States

Freelance

Design consultant

Completed print and web design projects for a variety of clients, including Monster Government Solutions, the American Society of Interior Designers, INPUT.com, and AARP.
District of Columbia, United States

Crabtree + Co.

Graphic Designer/Art Director

Conceived and executed broad variety of print and web projects, including brochures, logos, newsletters, posters, websites, landing pages, and T-shirts. Did all production and pre-press work on my projects.
Virginia, United States

Meadows Design Office

Graphic Designer

Designed brochures, logos, newsletters, posters, and other print collateral for clients in the cultural and non-profit areas. Did all production and pre-press work on my projects.
District of Columbia, United States

Association Of Science-Technology Centers

Director of Publications and Information Services

Edited and produced monthly newsletter (the production of which I moved in-house); set editorial calendar, wrote feature and news stories; administered $65k budget; brokered co-publishing deals; supervised a writer and fulfillment associate.
District of Columbia, United States

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University

Graphic design coursework

Pursuant to a career change from journalism/editorial, studied graphic design at VCU’s highly regarded Comm Arts program.
Virginia, United States

Cornell University

PhD, Sociology

Focused on sociology of science and social of mass media, completing a dissertation that examined coverage of occupational health issues in the mainstream and alternative press. Graduated magna cum laude.
New York, United States

Buffalo State College

BA, Sociology/Psychology

Buffalo, New York, United States

Awards

Printing & Graphic Communications Assn.

Best of Category: Home Page Design

Printing & Graphic Communications Assn.

Award of Excellence: Poster Design

Art Directors Club-Washington DC

Website design

Art Directors Club-Washington,DC

Invitation/program design

Society For Technical Communications

Award of Distinction, brochure design

Knight Center For Specialized Journalism

Fellowship

American Psychological Association

National Media Award, Excellence in Newspaper Writing,Honorable Mention

Chicago Medical Writers Assn.

Morris Fishbein Award (writing for professionals)

Chicago Medical Writers Assn.

Beth Fonda Award (writing for lay audience)

Chicago Women In Publishing

Excellence in Design, Writing, and Editing

Engineering College Magazine Assn.

Best Recurring Feature

Skills

Copyediting, Illustration, Interaction Design, Print Design, Software QA, UI Design , Usability Assessment, UX Design, Web Design,

Software

Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Sketch, Textmate, Transmit.

Solid working knowledge of html, css3.

Experience with Wordpress, php, jquery.

Learning Figma, Adobe XD.