Dawn Blanchard Email & Phone Number

Virginia, United States

Highly experienced Human Centered Designer (UX Specialist) with vast skills in visual user interfaces that offer a relaxing, easy to use workflow. Focus on the psychology of the end users needs and expectations. CSS and HTML responsive developer including extensive 508 experience for government design and development.

Arlington Virginia

Specializes in web application design for USDA-National Forest Service. Focused User Centered De-sign on Agile and waterfall projects, collaborating with Project Managers, developers and designers. Excellent in end user interviews, user story development, information analysis, workflows, site maps, wireframes, mockups, personas, user testing and all forms of validation. Powerful PPT presentations to help educate about UCD Strong visual design skills connected to current trends and user expectations. Lead designer on template driven development design team that will allow for design consistency, usa-bility and time management in government development projects. Expert in user-interface design and experience.

Crystal City

Supported an agile team developing complex application using VSTS in a .net environment. Created application design, complex wireframe methodology and site map, managed 3 designers, interfaced with SME's and client on a regular basis. Successfully created high definition mockups, and developed all branding and style guidelines for application graphical user interface templates within USAID branding standards. Developed html5 and CSS3, Bootstrap responsive design prototype.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Nov 2014 – Current– UX/UI Senior Designer Lead web/graphic designer for USCIS/DHS within the DID(it) technology group. Branded and designed all graphics including logo, stationary and framework graphical user interface for all applications being built on the Ruby on Rails. Created custom design for special pro-jects. These designs included sketches, to wireframes (Balsamiq), to html5 and CSS3 responsive design prototypes. Worked directly with the government clients in each department, and collaborated and worked a long side developers on all projects.

Poolesville, Maryland

Ashby North is a well established illustrator/writer in his local area, but needs help in branding his talents and marketing them to a broader market. Our goal for Ashby is to find an agent and/or publisher who would be interested in representing him in children's and professional markets.We are in the process of discovery and creating a successful marketing plan/timeline. Part of the process will be a Marketing Brief, Branding Brief, Marketing Plan and final strategies that will utilize his current available work and websites.I collaborated in the design, plus the development of his website: www.fiddlemoonstories.com (showcasing his video picture books), and designed and developed his freelance illustration site: www.northartist.com (currently under development for redesign). The scope of this work will be one year and is currently in process.

Silver Springs, Maryland

Lattice Group is a complete provider of application and web-based solutions and software engineering services and I've been doing freelance projects for them for around two years. They always have such interesting and diverse project and it's a real joy to work with Al Yoon - President, and Kelly Meinig - Senior Project Manager.I have the honor of working with this amazing group of people as a designer because of their real desire to see their clients succeed in their efforts, and their careful attention to detail and hearing the clients request has impressed me as a designer.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Communication Specialist, Health & Human Services (HHS) PSC – Bethesda, MD. Communication Specialist,-Bethesda, MD. Full time, temporary. Redesign user experience (UX) for website within new content management system using existing branding this designer had created two years previous. Wireframe, mockups, prototypes. Developed Branding Brief and Marketing Plan, updated branding and created marketing materials and collaterals for trade show events. Multi-media movie development including storyboarding, content development, music editing and image manipulation.

Washington Dc

Graphic and UX/UI web design with multi-media work in Capitivate and Edge technology. Creating GUI's for e-learning courses for the Federal Aviation Administration. Assisted team in rebranding and redesigning of company website. Lead in prototype website development in html using CSS, responsive layout and multi-media integration. Creation of unique graphics project specific, including mockups, navigation, photo composites and widgets for Captivate and the internet.

Ft. Mcnair, Washington Dc

MDW - U.S. Army. Lead UX/UI Designer for redesign of 10 websites and two applications including multi-media games and videos. Developed UX to include branding and existing content, UI site design/template to be used for each area of MDW including Presidential Inauguration 2013, State Funeral, Twilight Tattoo, Spirit of America, and White House Transportation. Worked closely with different divisions in developing user friendly wireframes, branding and Section 508 considerations as well as designing all graphics for each site. Helped create templates in CMS, assisted developers in creating each site, including large data applications within the Army MDW headquarters.

Rockville, Maryland

Short-term contract on-site, full time web/graphic and UI designer for SAMHSA. Primarily a complete intranet web site redesign including wireframes, digital mockups, branding, colors, layout, usability and accessibility, both public and internal. Designed iPhone web app design layout, and supported all web graphic needs in the department such as site widgets, logos, banners and photo editing.

Rockville, Maryland

Fulll time telework supporting the Office of the Director, Office of Communications for the Program Support Center of HHS. Rebranding of all outward facing communications including Website, publications such as the Service Directory, Annual Report, retrospective, folders, business cards, e-news, newsletters, magazines and more. Redesign of Intranet and Internet sites within the agency. Dynamic interaction and coordination with web development team including templates, Flash intros, and web galleries in jQuery/JavaScript, html, CSS, layout, image optimization and usability.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Activities and societies: Society of Illustrators - Metropolitan Transit Authority; 1st Place winner poster.

Bachelors Of Art, Graphic Design/Illustration, 3.9

Activities and Societies: Society of Illustrators - Metropolitan Transit Authority; 1st Place winner poster design "Key to Unlocking.