brian fong

Front-end Developer, Visual Designer

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Work Experience

The Smithsonian Institution

Visual Designer (Freelance)

Designed promotional materials for print and digital media for the National Museum of African American History and Culture's forthcoming Community Curation app.
June 2016 - October 2016 District of Columbia, United States

Twitter

Visual Designer (Contractor)

Created custom emoji as well as infographics for the Twitter blog.
April 2016 - September 2016 San Francisco, California, United States

Bivium Capital Partners, LLC

Front-end Developer (Freelance)

Added dynamic features to existing WordPress website. Made aesthetic changes to the design. Fixed Javascript incompatibilities that hindered site performance, a consequence of a WP upgrade.
September 2016 - October 2016 California, United States

Innovative Marketing & Communications

Front-end Developer (Freelance)

Translated designs into a responsive HTML/CSS/JS website.
March 2016 - March 2016 California, United States

Fort Point Beer Company

Photographer (Freelance)

Documented in-brewery canning process and new packaging.
September 2015 - September 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Natalie Trousdale LAc

Photographer (Freelance)

Photographed acupuncture techniques and medicinal herbs for website use.
March 2015 - March 2015 San Francisco, California, United States

Digital First Media

Mobile Designer & Front-end Developer

Created icons, splash screens, and other visual assets for iPhone, iPad, and Android apps for 80+ news properties.
Created navigation features for primary Article Page template (for the new mercurynews.com and 80+ others that use the same CMS).
Videography and photography for TapIn iPad app.
Created interactive multimedia content for TapIn iPad app.
Created utilities to generate reports for social media engagement.
Translated designs into their HTML/CSS components for use in migration to a new CMS.
Miscellaneous design for both print and electronic media.
Helped deploy new site features.
Redrew 100+ bitmap-type site mastheads as vector graphics (SVG).
August 2010 - June 2014 California, United States

Botany Factory

Product Photographer & Front-end Developer & Designer (Freelance)

Designed website using HTML and CSS.
Photographed glass & plant forms in both studio and "natural" environments.
January 2010 - California, United States

Pocket Bus

UI/UX (Mobile) & Visual Designer

Collaboration with Gilad Gurantz
Created app icon, in-app graphics for the following iPhone apps: Pocket MUNI, Pocket MBTA, Pocket AC Transit, Pocket Chapel Hill, and Pocket Unitrans.
Helped to conceptualize key UI features and app flow, e.g. display arrows along route lines to indicate the actual directions of an inbound or outbound route.
Created informational website.
March 2010 - March 2012 California, United States

DeepFlight

Visual Designer (Freelance)

Designed expedition insignia for Lake Tahoe hydrobatics mission.
June 2012 - June 2012 California, United States

EdVoice

Visual Designer (Freelance)

Document design for political issue briefs.
May 2010 - California, United States

Pillar Real Estate Services

Freelance Web Designer

Custom-built website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
April 2010 - San Francisco, California, United States

Jonathan Furst

Front-end Developer & Designer (Freelance)

Designed a WordPress theme from scratch to serve as a blog and running-portfolio for the sports poet Jonathan Furst.
Features custom illustrations used in the navigational elements.
March 2010 - California, United States

ZDp Models

Digital Technician & Retoucher

Assisted with the photography for a forthcoming book. Helped check focus, verify proper exposure and sensor cleanliness.
Formatted Canon RAW files for visual consistency and print-readiness.
Completed many Adobe Illustrator drawings and adjusted files for print.
December 2009 - February 2010 San Francisco, California, United States

Midsummer Mozart Festival

Front-end Developer & Designer (Freelance)

Completely redesigned existing website.
Built with HTML, CSS, and a pinch of custom photography.
February 2009 - April 2009 California, United States

PETA

Body Painter / Photographer / Videographer (Volunteer)

Body-paint volunteers for PETA's public demonstrations all over the United States.
Record photos and videos to document the demonstrations for in-house use in campaigns, advertising, and analysis.
February 2009 - August 2010 California, United States

EdVoice

Independent Contractor

Researched Drupal 5.10 as a replacement CMS for DotNetNuke for their satellite websites.
October 2008 - October 2008 Sacramento, California, United States

Nikolas Weinstein Studios

Front-end & Database Developer and Model Maker (Contractor)

Performed webpage updates and adjustments using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, and JavaScript.
Modified Filemaker Pro databases to add new functionality and clean up existing infrastructure.
Created initial scale, material, and conceptual models for the sculptural installation "Capella."
November 2007 - June 2008 California, United States

Primarily A Cappella

Full Stack Developer

Maintained and improved local Filemaker Pro databases.
Created online MySQL databases and corresponding web interfaces using HTML and PHP.
Implemented dynamic site elements, e.g. product page templates, search results, current inventory.
March 2007 - June 2008 California, United States

Detect The Mutation

Freelance Web & Graphic Designer

Designed website, logo, and apparel for a fundraising organization specializing in research on Lynch Syndrome, a genetic predisposition to certain gastrointestinal cancers.
May 2008 - July 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Espresso Roma Cafe

Barista

Crafted espresso beverages, coffee, and an assortment of cafe fare. Cash-handling duties, store-closing, and cleaning duties. Worked solo shifts.
April 2006 - March 2007 Davis, California, United States

Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District

Freelance Web Designer

Converted graphical designs into HTML/CSS.
Performed on-site digital photography for website use.
Edited and posted new content, formatted digital photographs using Photoshop.
May 2004 - March 2007 San Rafael, California, United States

Primarily A Cappella

Web Content Manager

Placed new products on website, kept site contents current, and corrected errors using Dreamweaver.
Automated product scanning and image formatting by creating Photoshop Actions scripts.
July 2002 - September 2004 San Rafael, California, United States

Hawkes Ocean Technologies

Engineering Intern

Drafted components of the navigation assembly for a personal submarine with proper physical constraints for mechanical simulations using Autodesk Inventor.
Drafted hydrodynamic wings using Autodesk Inventor.
September 2000 - June 2001 San Anselmo, California, United States

Joseph Campbell Foundation

Web Design Summer Internship

Worked with Mark Watts to create the original incarnation of the Joseph Campbell Foundation website.
Created content and site templates using HTML and CSS.
Created animations using (Macromedia) Flash.
June 2000 - September 2000 San Anselmo, California, United States

Education

University Of California - Davis

Fine Arts, Computer Science

September 2004 - March 2007 Davis, California, United States

Skills

Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Ambigram Design, Autocad, Autodesk Inventor, Boggle, Bootstrap, CSS, Digital Painting, Digital Photography, Digital Post-Processing, Digital Retouching, Filemaker Pro, HTML, Illustration, JavaScript, Latte Art, Mobile Design, MySQL, OmniGraffle, Pysanka, Scrabble, Serigraphy, Sketch 3, Typography, WordPress,