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Freelance Designer and Artist
Hope Bryant
Largo, FL
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About
Professional designer offering my considerable multidisciplinary skill set, insight, and 20+ years’ experience with a complementary in-depth animation & motion graphics background providing creative and engaging visuals, interfaces, and/or designs.
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Education
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Bachelor Degree ( BS ) Computer AnimationArt Institute of Philadelphia1993 - 2003Volunteered as an Orientation Leader for 7 Quarters. The T-shirts given to us for Orientation day I would wear the first two weeks of classes. The shirts were recognized by the new students who would come to me, and others who did the same, and ask questions. Often they were lost or confused. This action received several compliments from faculty and staff. Volunteered as a Peer Tutor for 4 Quarters before the school hired me as a Student Worker in the role of Peer Tutor for another 6 Quarters. I helped any number of students in various studies, from math to specific program questions. During this time I also volunteered to run an HTML basics Workshop. This ran for about a year. I was one of the Founding members of AIPH's Animation Club, Commotion, as well as its original Website Admin. I was also hired by the Technology department as a Computer Lab monitor, then upgraded to Help Desk. Much of my understanding of computer systems comes from the knowledge base of the Tech Staff.
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n/a Environmental ScienceWoodstown Vocational Techincal Center1996 - 1997
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Experience
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Illustrator & Web DesignerDrakenhart StudiosJul 2002 - Present (22 years 5 months)Design, envision, create, re-work and re-create fantasy characters as commissioned. Work in various mediums both Traditional (pencils, inks, pastels, paints), and Digital (Photoshop, Illustrator). Designed informative websites based on the ideal goal of content immersion, navigation simplicity, and information accessibility. Represented the content information in a clear-cut but interesting layout. Responsibilities included management of content, supervising assistants, gathering information for inclusion to the sites, and working in conjunction with clients to provide the best possible spread of correct information.
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UX/UI Designer / Business Development CoordinatorLakeland, FLMar 2014 - Jun 2018 (4 years 3 months)User Experience/User Interface Designer and 508/Accessibility Subject Matter Expert on team for VA’s My HealtheVet Portal redesign.
Team’s efforts netted a SUS score of 80, improved find-ability with dashboard features on front page, and IA restructure.
Lateral promotion from contractor to BD to help capture contracts, worked with team to upgrade CMMI level to 3, and oversaw ISO 9001:2015 upgrade with Director of IT. -
Web DesignerNational A-1 AdvertisingNov 2006 - Mar 2008 (1 year 4 months)Major duties included: redesigning template "box-cover" designs for amateur film companies, skinning default ppv theaters, creating banner advertisements in various sizes and styles, designing promotional graphics for the front page of pvp theaters for specific videos, creating promotional single-page websites for specific videos, QC work on various non-english domains to ensure they pointed to the correct pages, and multiple flash advertising banners for on-site use.
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DigitizerPindar Set Inc.Jul 2005 - Feb 2006 (7 months)Primary duties included digitizing hard-copy paperwork into a compressed format for artist rendering, QC work on hard-copy paperwork, organization of advertisement paperwork, batch-scanning multiple advertisements for later digitizing, and correction of rejected advertisement instructions. Worked both as a member of a team, and independently on individual assignments.
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Graphic Artist SpecialistCadence ExhibitsJul 2004 - Feb 2005 (7 months)Designed graphics with intent to produce them in Large Scale for use with tradeshow booths of various shapes and sizes. Designed, created layouts, and scaled up images by hand for use with multiple-use graphics, logos, headers, banners, bubble panels, and central graphic images. Promoted company, products, and services in conjunction with company sales staff through direct client relations as well as advertising design. Directly consulted clients in order to facilitate a better concept to production understanding of the products and services offered by the company. Aided in set-up and tear-down of large booths, storage of booths, and shipment of booths when management requested.
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Affiliations
• AIGA
• National Association of Professional Women (NAPW)
• International Web Association (IWA) -
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On Coroflot@HopeBryant, member since 2013
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