ANDREW V. SPINA

SUMMARY

Over six years of product design and production experience, ranging from brochure sites to server-side application suites and software. Strong interpersonal skills, highly organized, meticulous about documentation, creative thinker with a broad understanding of software and web technologies.

EXPERIENCE

Interaction Designer / Information Architect - LearnTech, New York, NY
October 2000 - January 2002

• Established, documented, maintained and revised functional specifications. Developed and documented product function and structure through wire-frames, use flow charts, use cases, site maps and screen diagrams. Translated functional requirements into effective and usable designs.
• Designed and built HTML and Flash mock-ups and was a hands-on manager for the team of developers and artists that produced the final prototypes.
• Initiated and managed creative brainstorming meetings. Lead design workshops and presentations with clients and was in constant contact with the production team and off-shore engineering group.
  

  Clients included: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., Kaplan Inc., Scholastic Inc., Cultura Inglesa/Sao Paulo, Grupo Editorial Norma, ClickRadio Inc., Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing.

Producer - LTI/Voyager, New York, NY
January 1998 - October 2000

• Maintained project budget, timelines and deliverables through project completion. Scheduled resource allocation. Coordinated quality assurance.
• Successfully managed production team of artists, associate producers and off-shore engineers.
  
• Produced additional graphics and interface designs as needed. Tracked asset production (over 50,000 multi-media assets for one project alone).
  
  Clients included: American Social History Project Inc., Scholastic Inc., Ravensburger Interactive GmbH.
  

Web Developer - Freelance
September 1997 - Present

• Define content structure, design user interface and produce art assets including file optimization. Hand code HTML and JavaScript.
• Combined disparate sites for New York University's School of Education into a single unified site using a common information structure.

Software Engineer - Inficon, Syracuse, NY
October 1994 - August 1997

• Wrote system firmware in C, DSP firmware in Assembler and the data collection application in Visual Basic.
• Authored technical user manual and built on-line help using RoboHelp.
  
• Installed and tested product at primary client's beta site in Aachen, Germany.

QA / Software Tester - Inficon, Syracuse, NY
September 1993 - October 1994

• Led a six member QA group responsible for testing a large-scale Windows application.
  
• Drafted test plans and automated test scripts.
  
• Maintained database of over two thousand problem reports collected from testers and beta-sites and generated reports for the software development team.

EDUCATION

APPLICATIONS & LANGUAGES

HTML, Java Script, Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, DreamWeaver, Debabelizer
Visio, MS Project, MS Office (Word, Excel, Access)
C, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Assembler, C++, Lisp