Lawrence Siulagi
Traditional Design for a Digital World
Address
+1 503 310-1920
lawrence@siulagi.com
Objective
A position that will utilize my years of experience in graphic design, animation, music and film, web development, leadership and management skills, and my strength in parsing data.
Summary
Web design and content management professional with over 20 continuous years of experience in traditional and digital design, database management, UI, concept-to-launch product tracking, and art direction and creative management. A self-starter with a strong work ethic, excellent analytical skills and works well with others.
Experience
– Sixteen years experience in building websites, high-level decision-making, problem-solving, and staying up-to-date with burgeoning technology
– Twenty years leadership and management experience with skills in team building, oral and written communication, and improvements in productivity
– Twenty-four years hands-on design experience in graphic arts and multimedia including traditional methods, film and digital video, and web media
Skills
Film & Animation: Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, iMovie; and Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Soundbooth, Screenflow
Image Tools: Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks; Design & Layout: Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress
Programming Software: Titanium Appcelerator, BBEdit
Languages: XHTML, XML, CSS, Javascript, 70wpm
SPECIFIC JOBS AND DUTIES
Lewis & Clark Law School
Web Developer
Office of Academic Affairs
Portland, Oregon
July 2009—present
Summary: Works with law school administrators, faculty and with the Senior Communications Officer for New Media to develop and implement a law school plan including policy and strategy for electronic media and to create the overall look of the official law school web site. Provides individual training when needed to law staff and faculty on site updates. Designs web pages, including graphics, technical elements, database integration, and navigational features. Creates and maintains official law school web pages, both by hand and using the college’s content management system, Live Whale. Consults with departments throughout the law school to assist with web and other electronic projects created and maintained in those departments. Works with faculty, administrators and students at the law school to identify stories to tell on the law school’s web site. Writes and edits content for web site features.
Advance Internet, Inc.
Senior Product Manager
Portland, Oregon
July 2007—February 2009
Summary: Served principal role in the research, creation, development, and management of a high school sports content and statistical management system.
– Primary in research, creation, development, and management of a high school sports content and statistical management system
– Maintained communication between project teams including company, third-party developers, technical support, nine affiliates and multiple newspapers
– Wrote detailed technical documents such as specifications, instructions, QA test scripts and project release notes
– Met regularly with project lead, project manager and lead developer to organize and prioritize project tasks
– Actively tracked the progress of tasks using a shared, web-based application
– Created screen casts of step-by-step tutorials and features for end-users
– Tested, developed and managed statistics and formulas for 37 sports
– Positioned as the “go to” person for developers and users
– Developed a wiki style guide for the project’s contributors
– Sought to reduce waste and increase efficiency through automation and removing redundancies
– Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, BBEdit, Filemaker, Trac, MS Office, Screenflow
OregonLive.com
Production Manager
Portland, Oregon
September 1997—July 2007
Summary: Managed editorial production through web design, production tools, implementation of standards, equipment coordination and training.
– Researched, designed and implemented a dynamic high school sports application for reporting of statewide scores and schedules
– Designed tools and forms to promote community involvement for news and sports
– Analyzed, created, and implemented site-wide templates and coordinated with technical support for quality assurance
– Liaised with affiliate newspaper and third-party content providers along with technical support in the management of XML content streams
– Standardized styles and parameters for images, audio, video, and directory organization and trained producers on latest web tools and techniques
– Produced in-house studio recordings, telephone streaming for video and audio to promote content on the web for sports, news and entertainment
– Coordinated with producers and equipment for reporting on local event coverage and provided training in digital tools to facilitate reporting
– Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, BBEdit, Filemaker, MS Office, Helix Producer, Flash
Oregon Business Magazine
Art Director and Webmaster
Portland, Oregon
July 1995—September 1997
Summary: Guided art direction and produced layout for statewide business magazine (20K subs.); designed websites for the magazine and its complements.
Webmaster Duties
– Designed and programmed content-rich, subscription and advertising-based websites to complement Oregon Business Magazine
– Programmed and implemented database conversions of lists to desktop publishing and HTML pages
– Liaised with ISP technical support on web formatting and security
– Designed additional web images, animations, forms, tile and banner ads
Art Director Duties
– Designed and performed digital layout of covers and editorial features of Oregon Business Magazine, a monthly regional w/20K subscribers
– Provided art direction and attended photo sessions for cover and feature stories
– Maintained design integrity of custom publications through careful art direction
– Worked closely with editorial and attended weekly meetings and retreats
– Selected photos and illustrations for publications and performed digital manipulations when necessary
– Designed in-house print advertisements to promote web presence for the magazine and web banners
– Software: Quark XPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Filemaker, BBEdit
RFD Publications, Inc.
Graphic Designer and Advertising Coordinator
Wilsonville, Oregon
February 1995—July 1995
Summary: Designed display ads for weekly advertorial and led a team to improve page and ad production for printed products.
– Led a team of four designers to improve coordination of page and ad production
– Designed and produced numerous display, classified, and spec advertisements for The Downtowner, a weekly advertorial
– Educated and coordinated with sales representatives to produce higher quality ads
– Performed numerous scans and digital touch-ups using Photoshop
– Placed ads and prepped folios for output
– Researched software and typefaces for suggested improvements and upgrades for the creative department.
University of Southern California, School of Business Administration
Creative Manager
Los Angeles, California
June 1990 – January 1995
Summary: Supervised, designed, and provided graphic and web standards to support for the School of Business Administration’s in-house design department
– Supervised, designed, and provided graphic standards and support for the School of Business Administration’s in-house design department
– Supervised and evaluated three full-time graphic designers and one intern
– Advised, created, and executed design solutions for visual media objectives
– Developed and implemented requirements for the school’s 300 clients
– Developed and managed budgets for specific projects ranging from $500 invites to $30K MBA catalogs
– Managed over 100 projects per year
– Prepared print and image setting specifications for work to be performed by off-campus vendors
– Reviewed production work and suggested improvements
– Worked with a four-person team of designers, content and technical departments to create the School’s identity on the web
Freelance Web and Graphic Design
Clients include AT&T, Nike, Gilda Marx, Radisson Hotels
EDUCATION
Portland State University, Portland Development Center, 1999, Certificate Macromedia Flash
University of Southern California, 1992—1994, Film and Marketing
San Diego State University, 1982—1986, A.B. Drama, Directing Emphasis
