About Us - Henry Tavarez

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Experience Summary

Bachelor of Science in Interactive Media Design – Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale

10 years professional experience in user interface design and development
Strong user experience and interaction design skills
Experience in full product development lifecycle
Front-end web development
Rich internet application and ecommerce development
Flash animation and development
Product / project management

ASP.NET Web Forms
ASP.NET Web MVC
Web Services
C#
JavaScript / Ajax
jQuery / Dojo
XML / JSON
(X)HTML / CSS
PHP
SQL
Microsoft Visual Studio
DotNetNuke
Silverlight
Sharepoint

Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator
Adobe Flash / Dreamweaver / Fireworks
Microsoft Expression Blend / Expression Web
Microsoft Visio

Recent Projects

Below are some of Henry's most notable works and speaking engagements.

Hilton Grand Vacation Club – DNN Website (Primary and Mobile)
Created a skin and developed a DNN marketing website for Hilton Grand Vacation to promote its services to customers. Primary website features a customized gallery module that utilizes jQuery to provide a timed slideshow for each page based on CMS controlled photo gallery.

Also designed and developed the mobile version of this DNN site for use on all modern smartphones including the iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms.

Destiworld Resorts – DNN Website
Created a skin and developed a DNN website for Destiworld to promote resorts and vacation. The system integrates with reservation system for each of the vacation destinations and packages, utilizes a property manager to manage the available resorts by availability and is designed to feature random destinations to the user both on the home page and through their “Inspire” section of the website.

PricewaterhouseCoopers – Financial Application
Redesigned the themes and master pages used throughout the company’s Financial application. Designs were created to both provide the user with an easier, clear and more defined UI while adhering to the company’s newly designed branding. The project also established the UI framework and pattern library for any future software development of the application. Interface changes were implemented to the master pages, stylesheets and all pages and controls that utilized this new framework.

Previous Work Experience

ResumeSponge – User Interface Architect
Created the entire user interface for www.resumesponge.com, a professional social network. Utilizing the latest HTML, CSS and AJAX methodologies, established the UI framework and developed all of the interface layouts and functionality within an ASP.NET 4 environment.

Campus Management – Senior Interaction Designer
Established a signature brand and UI for the company's web products as well as develop the framework used for creating both the UI prototypes and the future architecture of the software presentation layer. Designed and developed the full pattern library for the UI using modern front-end web technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/AJAX. Applied pattern library to the entire suite of products as they transitioned from legacy desktop software into web applications. The use of semantic web standards and progressive enhancement techniques have added increased usability, accessibility and made the applications 508 compliant, making the software available to additional institutions and markets.

Extinction Level – Interactive Developer
Design websites, e-commerce stores, flash applications, media for ad campaigns and other design projects for various clients.

Clients include:

Mini Cooper, Volkswagen, Virgin Atlantic and Slim Jim (with Crispin Porter & Bogusky)
CareerBuilder & Nike Running (with Weiden & Kennedy)
eDiets.com

Niche Consulting and Applications – Senior Interactive Developer
Designed, created and managed the production of several websites and e-commerce stores for various direct selling companies such as: