Alicia Schepis, Lead Visual & UI/UX Designer, Platform Strategy, and Product Management in Manhattan Beach, CA

About

I've worked on digital innovation teams where the goal was to ideate, design, and develop multiple mobile and web experiences for the internal brand departments. Many projects included responsibilities such as art direction, creating brand guidelines, UI/UX design, motion graphics, presentation design, brand writing, and illustration. With multiple web and mobile apps for all devices in my history, I look to continue pursuing all forms of the digital and non-digital user experience ideations.

Industries I have worked for include greeting cards, film & television production/post production, and web/mobile innovation.

Currently looking for a job that will allow me to utilize all talents, and continue to grow into larger roles. A good balance of creative direction, design, product/user experience, and motion graphics is highly preferred.

Education

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Interactive Media Design

Full Sail University

2011 - 2012

Full Sail gave me the opportunity to earn a Master's degree in Media design - to finesse the skills I'd developed at my job and turn them into something more than just a job. I learned the back-roads to getting to the production part of a project, such as legal documents, further research into what a brand is/was/should be, and how much consumer information can be useful in determining goals for a brand. The master's program stretched every part of my media career from copy writing, to defining experience, to design, to building, and ending with presenting the final solution - in a printed book. Print wasn't very common for me other than with the greeting cards at work, so creating a book was extra fun and challenging. I felt pretty good at the end of the program, as I had an extra piece to add to my portfolio, and I could tell I showed intense improvement in my job. *Program was directed/managed online throughout the course of 12 months.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Cinema and Television Arts

California State University-Northridge

2003 - 2007

College life consisted of learning anything and everything video and film related. I spent many hours editing and working on production sets. Here, I also developed an interest in web development and design. These skills grew the more my interests grew.

Experience

Lead UI/UX Designer

IMAX Home Entertainment

Apr 2015 - Mar 2016 (11 months)

Responsibilities include:

UI/UX Designs for new products under IMAX Home Entertainment
UI/UX Designs for Tablet / Mobile App
Marketing Materials
Website / Mobile Site Design
Product Brand Definitions - Brand Identities
Content Production
Presentation Design
Digital Designer 2

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Oline

Glendale, CA

May 2014 - Apr 2015 (11 months)

Creatively designed & maintained the Disney style for multiple brand sites.

Web Design
Mobile Design
Responsive Design
User Experience Design
User Interface Design
Senior Creative Developer - Digital Innovation

American Greetings

Mar 2013 - Nov 2013 (8 months)

The Foundry is a digital innovation team tasked with ideating new digital products and content for all brands associated with American Greetings. Through broad concept creation and user testing, the Foundry built an extensive and strong base of products to make AG the leader in digital greetings for users of all ages.

Responsibilities included:
Content and Application ideation
Development and Production of designs, mocks, presentations
Asset production/management
Product Demo Videos
Functionality & UI/UX.
Worked directly with development teams, project managers, and UX teams
Lead ideation teams to concept new products for brands.
Trained others in mobile, web, and video production.

Products worked on:
justWink - Mobile App & Website, Digital Card Content, Product Videos
Cardstore - Mobile Apps, Product Videos
Live Greetings - Mobile App, Digital Content (Conversion from print), Concept Videos
Taylor Swift Greeting Cards - Mobile App & Microsite, Digital Content (Conversion from print), Product Videos
American Greetings - Mobile App, Video Animated eCards (FX, Rotoscoping, Editing)
+4 other mobile/ipad app designs & production
Creative Developer - Digital Innovation

American Greetings

Sep 2008 - Mar 2013 (4 years 6 months)

Responsibilities included:
Content and Application ideation
Development and Production of designs, mocks, presentations
Asset production/management
Product Demo Videos
Functionality & UI/UX.
Worked directly with development teams, project managers, and UX teams
Lead ideation teams to concept new products for brands.
Trained others in mobile, web, and video production.
In house Freelance Developer

American Greetings

Nov 2007 - Sep 2008 (10 months)

Content building (Flash)
Animation/Special FX
Motion Graphics
Video Production

Brand Teams
Creative Media Assistant

California State University, Northridge

Sep 2006 - May 2007 (8 months)

Maintained & Managed office and studio equipment
Recorded and organized Class and Student projects in studio.
Edited Videos for students and faculty; encoded for mulitple devices.
Asst. Home Entertainment Coordinator/Asst. Video Editor (Internship)

Cinema Libre Studio

May 2006 - Nov 2006 (6 months)

Capturing and logging footage
Audio Sync(Pro-Tools)
Data Organization
Production Assistant - Movie "Now&Later", on set *Paid

Awards

MFA - Media Design: Course Director Award for Editorial Effective Copy Writing

Affiliations

AIGA

Skills

Elsewhere on the Web

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@eviljazzmidget, member since 2014

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Alicia Schepis

Assistant Professor - Educator, Communication Design, Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design

Systems Administrator, Visible Futures Lab (VFL)