Matt Gantner

Interactive Designer

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Résumé

My experience are diversified across medias. Webpages, Applications and print. I have worked alone, as part of a team and team leader. My skills are best employed in moving concepts into prototype phases. Familiar with hardware, software and design.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LISG, Lifetime Income Solutions Group, Louisville, KY A member of Western and Southern Financial Group, LISG is think-tank focused on income products for the retirement market. Director of Technical Solutions, 2007–Present
  • Manage the development of web and print visuals for conceptual products and services.
  • Coordinate development efforts of presentation material for external focus group review.
  • Develop logical views, wireframes and prototype interactive material.
  • Develop multimedia using Actionscript 3.0, PHP, CSS, Jquery and mySQL Database.
SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation, Bloomfield, IN International science research and engineering services. Technical Illustrator, 2006-2007
  • Convert printed military weapon manuals to storyboards for multimedia development.
  • Photograph and video weapon systems maintenance, operation and troubleshooting tasks.
  • Incorporate photography, video, audio voice-over into slide organized, Flash-based multimedia with custom drag and drop quizzes and drop-down navigation.
Integrity Life Insurance, Louisville, KY A financial services company that specializes in annuities. New Media Designer, 1998-2005
  • Conceptualized and generated interactive multimedia which resulted in increased company visibility.
  • Consolidated hundreds of forms and marketing material into interactive PDFs which resulted in substantial savings of printing and shipping costs.
  • Furthered the company marketing goals by creating visually dynamic brochures, posters, tri-folds and flyers.
  • Maintained critical Marketing Communications department database which assured current and valid data on thousands of printed material.

EDUCATION

Master of Arts in Interactive Design Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, 6/2009
Associate of Arts in Visual Arts Ivy Tech State College, Sellersburg, IN, 6/1999
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 6/1996

TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT

  • Photoshop
  • Indesign
  • Acrobat
  • Illustrator
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash
  • Actionscript
  • Premiere
  • AfterEffects
  • Maya
  • Microsoft, Linux, Apple
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • mySQL
  • Subversion
  • Certified Apple Technical Coordinator, 2002
  • (i.e. I fix my own problems most of the time ;))

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