Nick Finck

Contact information available upon request.

Professional Experience

Establish business, acquire clients, develop proposals, job order, manage employees, organize events.
Develop deliverables ranging from web roadmaps, wireframes, prototypes, sitemaps, user testing, focus groups, and expert reviews.

Establish a business presence, conduct project pitches and complete contracted work.
Develop deliverables ranging from wireframes, sitemaps, usability tests, expert reviews, and complete site creation and redesigns.

Define information architecture strategy for projects, conduct interviews and recruit new IAs, assist in defining project scope.
Develop information architecture blueprints, wireframes, personas, content inventories, usability test scripts and other IA and usability materials for projects.

Manage web team, assign tasks, client communication, work with 3rd party vendors, assist in day to day management tasks.
Develop information architecture blueprints for projects, assist in defining project scope.

Implement user interface and middleware of client sites and applications.
Provide development functions such as layout and design balance for clients including PacifiCorp, Long's Drugs, UniShippers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Christus Health and Trane Systems.

Develop corporate Technical Specification and Web Style Guide.
Supply creative direction, interface design, image compression, functionality and development of Intranet corporate presence web sites and applications.

Accountable for the art direction, design and development of internal and external ASCIS production tracking sites.
Provide creative direction, layout, interface design, image compression, script integration as well as development of HTML, CSS, and complex JavaScript.

Deliver art direction, logo design, layout, and image compression
Design and develop client photo sharing and photo editing web applications for Intel's Internet Imaging Services department.

Responsible for implementation of HTML, JavaScript, CSS and DOM (dHTML) on client Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites.
Technical advisor, founding member of the Advisory Board, supervisor for junior web developers on large projects.

Web Designer and Editor in Chief for Digital Web Magazine
Web Developer and Associate Producer for A List Apart
Contributing Writer for WebReview magazine, DIK, The Web Standards Project, Independents Day.
Site Development for Portland Brewing Co., PBS, Du Val Business Law, FDIC, HillmanCurtis
Author of "For the Love of Design" for Scene 360
Author of "Envisioning Voice" for Independents Day
Author of "Independent Publishing is Growing Up" for Digital Web Magazine