Bill Pliske Email & Phone Number

Tempe, Arizona, United States

UI lead on a research and development team, geared toward coming up with innovative solutions and ideas to improve our many applications.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Design and develop user interface solutions for the numerous, in-house internal apps used by many employees: staff, police, judges, etc, of Arizona's court system.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

- Lead a team of front-end developers and designers, building a variety of customer-facing and internal digital products for the Gannett Product division. - Very familiar with building products in React, styled components, dipping into GraphQL, and most code-based solutions to achieving that final design look.- Built out live (React) prototypes on deadline to test out new features with test users.- My team was often an intermediary between design and developers, as my team members were able to use their design skills to interpret the end design goal, yet code out enough of the website that dev had very little to do on their end.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

- Hands-on leader of user experiences — UI designs, wireframes, prototypes, etc. — for iOS, Android and web-based apps in a fast-paced, Agile development environment.- Created the workflow in which designers work with developers in creating products for 80-plus Gannett locations.- Worked with the product managers and owners to develop a shared vision of a product and then led a process to define the experience and the design, delivering on the product’s objectives.- Responsible for the creation of effective UI designs based on business requirements, delivering end-to-end user experience solutions for multiple products and platforms.- Worked strategically with other stakeholders and team members across the organization.- Drove the development and communication of design guidelines, trends, patterns and libraries.- Frequently communicated with managers and developers across the division — and country — to achieve product goals.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

- Directed the creation of interactive news graphics in coordination with stakeholders' needs.- Created a syllabus and taught a staff of beginners the fundamentals of HTML and CSS.- Formulated graphic workflows and processes from scratch in order to achieve tight newsroom deadlines.- Effectively worked cross-departmentally to achieve goals of major projects (Super Bowl, immigration, elections).- Led the presentation of information through the use of innovative video, quizzes, maps and (back then) Flash.- Frequently led the digital presentation of the big stories that mattered most: immigration, Giffords shooting, elections, Pulitzer entries and others.- Created annual budget for equipment, software and training.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Guided the efforts of designers, graphic artists and illustrator for the Republic's news sections, which included the front page and A section, Local, Sports, Business, 17 community editions and occasional special sections throughout the year.— Directed the creation of interactive news graphics in coordination with stakeholders' needs.— Created a syllabus and taught a staff of beginners the fundamentals of HTML and CSS.— Formulated graphic workflows and processes from scratch in order to achieve tight newsroom deadlines.— Effectively worked cross-departmentally to achieve goals of major projects (Super Bowl, Immigration, Elections).— Led the presentation of information through the use of innovative video, quizzes, maps, and (back then) Flash.— Frequently put in charge of presenting the big online stories that mattered most: Immigration, Giffords shooting, Elections, Pulitzer entries and others.— Created annual budget for equipment, software and training.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Led a team of designers, illustrators and graphic artists in the daily production of the newspaper, winning many local, state and international awards along the way. In addition, I was the designer and coder of the first prototype of the PG's initial website in 1996.— Directed a staff of 30+ designers, graphics artists and illustrators across multiple locations and shifts.— Critiqued staff work daily via a self-created website, complementing work (and why it was good) and creating before/after examples for work that needed help.— Responsible for establishing industry contacts to help search for quality staffers during hiring time— Advanced the visibility of staff design through promotion and contests.— Attended daily budget meetings to suggest items needed for the next day's edition and website.— Heavily involved in creating annual budget related to equipment, software and training needs.— Helped lead the search and training for a new editorial pagination system.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Creative director for many projects over the years, for a number of clients across the country, but mostly in Pennsylvania.