Doug Stringham Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Now part of a growing team, but for over seven years, a department of one ('first UX leader' [Spool, 2022]) managing and supporting cross-functional product management, marketing, and software/hardware engineering teams for the world’s leading provider of IPCTS and videotelephony relay services to Deaf and hard-of-hearing American Sign Language consumers. Collaborate with various teams to oversee• qualitative and ethnographic customer research (inform product decisions/details, identify customer psychology [in-home/on-site customer observations and interaction], heavily interact with existing customer experiences, and advocate contemporary accessibility standards) • testing (iterate and identify internal and external customer success/failure)• experience and interface design (design for proprietary embedded set-top systems; WebRTC; iOS, iPadOS, Android/TV, macOS, and Windows endpoints; and experimental single UI across multiple endpoints) (Current projects under non-disclosure agreements.)

Private practice ASL-English interpreter, translator, mentor, educator, and speaker. Utah State QA/Level III (Master) American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreting Certificate holder. Near-native fluency, thirty years of bidirectional ASL/English interpretation and transliteration. Certificate maintenance includes 80+ quadrennial hours of professional development. Past employment and client list includes: • Utah State Department of Education • Brigham Young University • Utah Valley Community College• International Committee of Sports for the Deaf (CISS)• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C• Association of College Educators — Deaf and Hard of Hearing• ESPN• contract private practice services to dozens of individuals, national and community businesses, and interpreting agencies

Orem, Utah

Professional teaching experience in a state college/university environment. Instruct upper-division American Sign Language/English a/synchronous interpreting courses in specialized cultural and anthropological skills:• introduction to the interpreting field• cross-cultural communication theories and application• consecutive and simultaneous interpreting theories and application• simultaneous bidirectional interpretation theory and skill building• signed language to spoken English interpretation and skill building• transliteration theory and application• audism, linguicism, and oppression• visual linguistic analysis• ethics-based reasoning and decision-making for interpreters• introduction to and intersectionality of Deaf people and disability studiesEditor/designer of Deaf Studies Today! 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014 conference proceedings. Extensive Instructure Canvas (https://www.instructure.com) and GoREACT (https://goreact.com) course development experience.http://intrpr.info

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Research, user experience, accessibility, conceptualization, art direction, visual design, prototyping and management of information-dense web products for a global religious organization, telling visual stories of the church’s history. Advocate for design and experience thinking among customers and product managers; mentored junior designers.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Research, user experience, accessibility, instructional development, conceptualization, award-winning art direction and visual design, prototyping, writing, production, and management of print-, interactive-, and video-based projects both individually and in teams for personal archival solutions direct sales company.• UX projects include creation of design language for StudioJ (now discontinued flagship personal archival design web/iOS application; studioj.com + web app), direction and development of dozens of event-based and campaign landing minisites, architect and redesign e-commerce checkout for replicated independent distributor sites, and development of responsive html email deliverables• Designed, developed, and implemented job tracking system for creative services department• Managed and directed in-house junior and senior design staff• Established and implemented process for both the art direction of video instruction and curriculum accessibility • Redesigned, rearchitected, and piloted integration of content management system for commercial, intranet, and replicated distributor presences

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Research, strategic development, conceptualization, award-winning creative and art direction, interaction design, writing, production, and management of corporate branding and identity, collateral, advertising, publication, and interactive projects for diverse national client base.• Managed and oversaw junior design staff• Art director over international, national, and locally-published magazine titles• Local and national client work for American Diabetes Association (packaging), Ameritech (user interface), Ancestry.com (corporate identity and integrated marketing campaigns), Brigham Young University (identity, web), Confluence (identity, CMS creation), Connect Public Relations (web), Franklin Covey (multiple localized publications), HyClone (collateral, catalog, advertising), MyFamily.com (identity), Neighborhood Housing Services (annual report), and Novell (publications)

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

In-house art director and manager of junior and senior design staff. Responsible to conceptualization, design, and art direction on dedicated fintech-before-it-was-fintech Web 1.0/2.0 and mobile sites for financial institutions. • Helped develop company Internet site workflow process • Helped reorganize and develop creative services management system • Developed, implemented, and managed job tracking system for creative services organization• Projects included redesign of WebBank (proprietary financial transactional prototype) for deployment on web and PalmPilot/Palm7 platforms. Client list included Banco Popular, Emigrant Bank, Old Kent Bank, and National City Bank.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Visual/Interaction designer for boutique multimedia/interactivity development agency. Designed and produced multimedia, interface, and web-based projects for Novell and Southern Company Utilities. Also created, designed, and wrote consumer magazine advertisements, print-based tradeshow materials, and promotional collateral.

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Responsibilities included conceptualization, design, art direction, management, and follow-up on a wide range of corporate collateral, large documentation, publication, packaging, direct mail, catalog, environmental signage, and corporate identity-related projects.• Helped develop and implement corporate identity standards and guide• Created, developed, and implemented packaging strategy for software product line• Maintained creative department library, ensuring continual exposure to current technology and design-related trends• Required extensive interpersonal and project management skills with clients, designers, account executives, and outside vendors including creative consultation, color correction, and web/sheetfeed press-check experience

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Student designer for in-house university communications and design services. Art directed quarterly multicultural club magazine, designed logos and event logomarks for on-campus organizations and events, and designed posters and public relations materials for on-campus events.

Master’S Degree, Instructional Psychology And Technology

Activities and Societies: Nominee, Outstanding Student Researcher Award, Instructional Psychology & Technology, Brigham Young University.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Graphic Design

Senior capstone: identity, collateral, store packaging, information/wayfinding, and editorial/book visual and instructional redesign.