Christijan Draper Email & Phone Number

United States

Manila, Utah, United States

Teaching across disciplines — technology and music at a rural school in Utah.

Utah

User Experience Design and Research Consulting.

Manage instructional team, Teach UX, Create curriculum for UX design program.

Pleasant Grove, Utah

Skyrocket Media transitioned to a new company name and brand. I maintained the same position managing the design and research teams for bestcompany.com.Oversaw rebranding transition from Skyrocket to BestCompany.

Pleasant Grove, Utah

Directed user research and interface design. Lead rebranding efforts to transition our company from SkyRocket Media to Best Company.

American Fork, Ut

Direct the user experience department of Rain, a digital agency. Steer our user experience, information architecture, and research efforts. Oversee team of 2-3 UX designers.

American Fork, Utah

User experience design, development, and research. Involved in improving a variety of media experiences for a wide range of clients.

I use PHP/MySQL to create Web applications for use by both students and our department. Iuse both Linux and Windows for development and our server is a LAMP virtual server, whichit is my responsibility to maintain. I also host a podcast, film and edit video, andcreate multimedia presentations. I am proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite and othergraphical, audio, and video software. Instructor of RMYL 487, Research Methods and Evaluation, BYU; 2008 0April 2009Taught three semesters of upper-level writing and research class for the RMYL department.

Did graphic design, editing, and a variety of other tasks as assigned, including video,photography, and writing.

Designed and developed website interfaces for static, dynamic, and interactive websites using PHP, HTML, CSS and Adobe Creative Suite.

I created a daily newscast for local radio station, including news gathering, editing(CoolEdit Pro), producing, recording, etc. I also did a few live on-air shows.

I did graphic design, illustration, and some page layout using Adobe Illustrator,Photoshop, and Quark.

Managed copy desk of 6 employees. Selected and edited world, national, and state newsfrom wire services for placement in newspaper.

Edited articles, photos, captions and laid out sports, news, and features pages for dailynewspaper. Drew occasional local political cartoons -- won regional award for two ofthem. Wrote monthly outdoors column and other occasional articles of local interest. Onearticle on winter outdoor activities was picked up by the Associated Press.

Select photos for printing in daily student newspaper. Create photo illustrations. Give feedback to staff photographers. Take photos for publication in daily newspaper.

Wrote and edited content and drew illustrations for manuals accompanying BYU Travel Study tours.

Drove motorcoaches and gave tours between Fairbanks and Eagle, Alaska, and between Fairbanks and Skagway, Alaska.

Trained ten new drivers in the Smith System for Defensive Driving and prepared them to receive their CDLs with passenger endorsement. Also instructed on tour presentation and management.

Prepared new drivers to pass their CDL with passenger endorsement for driving tour buses for Holland America Gray Line of Alaska. Taught Smith System of Defensive Driving.

Prepped and set up programs for on-air presentation. Monitored on-air signal. Used Louth automated system.

Phd, Byu, Instructional Psychology And Technology

M.S., Youth And Family Recreation

B.A., Communications