Steve Erwin Email & Phone Number

Dryden, New York, United States

Key Responsibilities• Provide leadership in developing the College's strategic web architecture. Guide and inform coding strategies to ensure stability, longevity, efficiency, ease of maintenance, and flexibility.• Focusing on the user experience, proactively recommend solutions to meet the College's evolving web, departmental, and business process requirements.• Serve as the lead web designer, front-end developer, and project manager to create, build, publish, and maintain new services, designs, solutions, and improvements.• Establish branding standards and guidelines.• Perform all necessary testing, debugging, and validation.• Track and analyze web statistics for usage trends, perform usability studies, recommend and implement improvements based on collected data.• Provide an agile development and deployment strategy and ensure an iterative website change process.• Monitor and maintain web accessibility compliance across the College's web properties.• Train and support the campus community in web-based content management and web accessibility compliance.• Oversee third-party vendor relationships related to the College's web services.

Syracuse, New York Area

Major Accomplishments • led the visual design and development of several large-scale, multifaceted websites & applications• successfuly advocated for user-centered design, breaking with the norm in Higher Ed• developed a design systems toolkit to support global visuals across a family of websites• devised a coding strategy to leverage CSS to minimize development overhead• advised other departments on business process & UX improvement strategies• concepted an entirely new and streamlined business process resulting in several new initiativesKey Responsibilities• UX/UI design• research & planning• information architecture• storyboarding / user flows• prototyping / visual design• usability testing• front-end development• software/application design• project management• customer communication• process improvement• product presentations• content strategy• responsive design & testing• cross-browser/platform compatibility

Syracuse, Ny

• Managed business, marketing and customer service efforts. • Directed, designed and constructed all creative media for several small business websites.

Geneseo, Ny

Managed, produced and distributed publicity materials for the School of Performing Arts.

Geneseo, Ny

• Developed and maintained multiple department websites. • Trained campus community in use of web technology.

Geneseo, Ny

• Designed publicity materials for several seasons of events hosted by the School of Fine Arts.

Syracuse, Ny

Assisted in a complete website overhaul for the University and 5 Colleges. Introduced CSS to the University Web Team and created their first stylesheet.