Brett Karpowicz Email & Phone Number

Herndon, Va, Us

Herndon, Va, Us

Mclean, Virginia

Current Assignment - Serving as a UX and Accessibility consultant as part of a team tasked with evaluating and advising remediation on accessibility compliance and best practices in user-centered design.Previous Assignment – Creative Director, UX and Communications Lead, for an IC-based, Directorate level training school. Goals were to review and create recommendations for the creation of a more inclusive communication plan, renewed focus on web accessibility, optimize workflows for web development efforts and eliminate redundancy.Highlights include:• Conducting a heuristic evaluation on current branding and communication efforts• Rebranded organization to unify subcomponents while also respecting parent organization branding standards• Consolidating multiple disparate web portals to eliminate redudancy and renew focus• Creating a new unified web presence for multiple plans and programs to include migration of archival form data to a new content management system for a seamless transition• Created unified design language that spanned across school programs and coursewarePrevious Assignment – Creative Director and UX subject matter expert for an IC-wide knowledge sharing platform that uses crowdsourced knowledge and experience to tackle tough mission and logistical problems.Highlights include:• Conducting a heuristic evaluation on current branding and communication efforts• Consolidating multiple disparate web portals to eliminate redudancy and renew focus• Created a new unified design language incorporated across both future physicaland web-based communications material• Creating an established taxonomy of terms and definitions related to internal processes and marketing materials.

• Served as Graphics and Multimedia lead for a multi-functional (strategic communications, creative media, and business process improvement) team for multiple Intelligence Community (IC) Directorate-Level Communication teams• Shaped innovation efforts in delivery, connectivity, and presentation for large scale conferences• Developed branding and marketing campaigns for the successful launches of new organizations, applications, and both internal and IC facing enterprise and strategic initiatives• Coordinated with third-party vendors for the procurement and creation of collateral material in support of branding efforts• Created web portals across multiple platforms both single-handedly and as part of a greater development team• Introduced a user-centric design and development culture while employing Lean, AGILE, and Scrum methodologies

Teaching advance techniques in color calibration/profiling, archiving, vector and raster based image editing, page layout, desktop publishing, interactive media, video editing, and web design. Software included: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, Flash, and Dreamweaver. Highlights:• Responsible for the training of 120 military, civilian and international students annually.• Developed and reviewed lesson plans, lectures, assignments and software demonstration outlines for accuracy and relevance to the Academic Director’s vision in accordance to the Training Task Selection Board’s objectives.• Developed software proficiency standards testing for new instructors. • Developed course material to include demonstrations. Provided revisions of 530 lecture hours for the Basic and Digital Multimedia Courses.• Supervised actions for proficiency and advancement while evaluating actions for remedial study, recycles, and eliminations. • Developed and reviewed instructional materials for accuracy and effectiveness.• Subject Matter Expert for Photo-Editing, Audio Video Editing, and Web Development.Full class size was 25. Students include fleet returnees from all the armed services, to include International Military students and DoD civilians.

A Basic Multimedia Illustrator Course instructor teaching military and DoD civilians (class size 30) the basics in: color theory, brand identity, layout, typography, vector and raster based image editing, video editing, multimedia development, electronic presentation, web design, and computer fundamentals.Manual arts Taught: Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, GraphiteSoftware Taught: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Powerpoint, Flash, Premiere, and DreamweaverHighlights:• Responsible for the training of 480 military, civilian and international students annually.• Develop and review lesson plans, lectures, assignments and software demonstration outlines for accuracy and relevance to the Academic Director’s vision in accordance to the Training Task Selection Board’s objectives.• Subject Matter Expert for Electronic Presentation, Audio Video Editing, Web Development, and Multimedia Authoring

Assigned to research, develop, edit and produce print products, to include posters, leaflets, and handbills to support mission objectives in the field of Psychological Operations. Quality control and editing of both imagery and text for print projects in preparation for offset press.Workflow consisted of long and near term program planning, target audience analysis, series development, product development, and coordination of distribution of messages throughout the Middle East in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom in support of Central Command’s (CENTCOM) objectives.Highlights:• 3 tours in Iraq. 1 tour in Kuwait.• Responsible for the training, and professional development of a Multimedia Team• Creation of nearly 800 unique Psychological Operations products• Restructured and managed online image archive containing over 2000 images and 6000 print products• Created Standard Operating Procedure guide for uniformed product production methods.• Worked with indigenous population to help develop products for target audience• Featured in Stars and Stripes magazine, CBS Nightly News, work featured in multiple major news publications and television media,• Creation of Coalition Provisional Authority's (interim governing body of Iraq) official seal for Ambassador Paul Bremer• During OIF 1: the primary Quality Control for all printed PSYOP material produced in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, managing over 1000 products submitted from over 20 different military tactical units within Kuwait and Iraq (before approval authority was passed down to Division leaders from CFLCC)

Continuing education instructor of non-credited college courses in various multimedia programs. Courses included:• Photoshop I & II• Dreamweaver I & II• Intro Flash• InDesign• Premeire• Photoshop ElementsHighlights:• Develop and review lesson plans, lectures, assignments and software demonstration outlines for accuracy and relevance to the Academic Director’s objectives.