Steve C Gehring

EXPERIENCE:

Merant / Serena – Jan. 1999 – Present
Hillsboro, OR

Responsibilities: Website design, UI design for corporate site & web applications, information architecture, animation, HTML coding, basic ASP coding, flash design, logo design, illustration, promotion design, photo manipulation, advertisement design, project management, managing archives, managing corporate ID on intranet & extranet

Major Contributions:

• 2002 Merant.com site redesign – Collaborated with marketing to design the master templates and home page for Merant.com.
• Dimension console UI – Teamed up with a contract designer to slice and code a complex layout forthe main log-in screen and main console page of biggest selling product Merant Dimensions.
• Merant License Manager demo – Coordinated with a team to develop and design a flash demo that introduced customers to Merant's new licensing application.
• Merant Collage sample website – Led the design for a example website that shipped with our Web Content Management Application named Collage. This website was to act as an example for the customer to see how to implement the product with their website.
• 2001 Merant.com site redesign – Evolved a design from an out sourced ad agency and worked with a team of developers to implement the design in a Web Content Management Application.
• 2001 Insight & SupportNet e-mail newsletter – Collaborated with the marketing department to design templates for the monthly e-mail newsletter tailored to customers.
• COBOL Portal design – Designed a UI for a portal for COBOL developers to help drive business leads for Microfocus products.

VOLUNTEER:

Surfrider "State of the Beach Report 2003" – Nov. 2003 – May 2003

Responsibilities: Website design, information architecture, HTML coding, basic ASP coding, photo
manipulation, project management, print design

Major Contributions:

• Website information architecture – Significantly improved the architecture of the website
  which resulted in an easier to use navigation making the information more accessible.
• Master template design and development – Reduced the master templates & designed a layout that
  is scalable which enabled Surfrider to achieve their goals of expanding the website.
• Print design featured In How magazine – Print design was featured in the April 2004
  How magazinee.

INTERNSHIP:

Dalloz Safety Internship - Jan. 1997
Reading, PA

Responsibilities: Illustration, Instruction manual layout, Product design

Major Contributions:

• Fit Sizer design – Designed the packaging for a tool that measures the face for a suitable respirator.
• Fit Sizer Illustration – Created the illustration used on the Fit Sizer demonstrating the use of the tool.
• Instruction Manual Layout – Laid out several printed instruction manuals ranging from 1 - 30 pages that informed the customer how to use the product.

FREELANCE:

Sales Growth Alliance: Corporate Branding, 11/2002
KIDTOGRAPHY: Corporate Branding, 4/2002
CCS Technology: Website Design, 3/2000

SKILLS:

Design Skills
Animation, Color theory, Desktop publishing, Illustration, Interactive design, Typography, 3-D design, 2-D design

Software Skills
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Premier, BBedit, Electric Image Amorphium, Electric Image Universe, Felt Tip Sound Studio, Macintosh OS9 / OSX, Macromedia Director, Macromedia MX Studio, Macromedia Homesite, Macromedia SoundEdit, Merant Collage, Merant Tracker, Merant Version Manager, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows XP, Quark Xpress, Strata Studio Pro, Ncompass Resolution

Programming Skills
Action Script, ASP / VB SCRIPT, CSS, HTML, JAVA Script,

ART:

Vinceties Restaurant, Portland, OR — Art showing - 9 B&W Drawings 03/2004 - 04/2004
IRISH BANK Restaurant/Bar, Portland, OR — 3 commissioned drawings 03/1999

EDUCATION:

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Graphic Design 5/1998
Concentrations in Business and Computer Science