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Is Martinka right for me?
MARTINKA is a user experience designer who has the-know-how to tackle a variety of design related projects. His abilities consist of, but in no means are limited to, handling the various aspects of creating user-friendly web sites using interaction maps, wireframes, style pages and other whatever else is needed to get the job done.
MARTINKA is a designer who is constantly thinking of new ideas, clever strategies and ways to enhance web design and user experience. MARTINKA's mind is a vast vault of design knowledge and he is always up to date on the latest graphic design techniques and trends. Whatever he does not know yet, he will learn, and learn quickly. With his ability to grasp client and consumer wants and needs, MARTINKA will catapult your business into a league of its own. He will never disappoint and will always exceed expectations.
One dose a day of MARTINKA is all it takes for a lifetime of success.
Previous Clients
Experience
Clearwire — Senior UX Designer
Utilizing my customer-focused design experience to improve Clearwire branded websites and leading a team around me to do the same. Creating, implementing and maintaining design standards in addition to my project tasks of constructing deliverables of wireframes, designs, and front-end code. Working closely with key business stakeholders and developers to achieve company goals.
2009-Present
Aquent Employee at Microsoft — Product Designer
Helped the Windows Phone team with both their customer and developer facing websites for the Windows Marketplace for Mobile project. Responsibilities covered the entire UX project spectrum. These included creating user stories, wireframes, user testing assets, final designs, and developer redlines.
2008-2009
Ramp Technology Group — UX Designer
UX Designer focusing on interaction design. Building user accessible sites from the ground up while creating numerous assets for these sites including interaction maps, wireframes, and style pages. Hand-coding the final product using client side technologies.
2008
Blue Frog Media — Lead Designer
Began work as the flash and print designer and later was promoted to take over the responsibilities of web designer.. As the company changed from a mobile company to a Media company, I was able to adapt my design skills to television design creating overlay graphics on top of existing TV programs using Macromedia Flash.
2007
FILTER Employee at Microsoft — Designer
Various projects including icon design, UI design, and producing graphics for the Human Interface Guidelines, a "blueprint" to assist developers in building screens for Windows Live Mobile.
2006
HomesandLoans — Web Designer
Collaborating with a small team of web developers creating internet based applications for real-estate companies. Functionality, usability, and accessibility are always taken into account in designing and creating the structural markup for the interfaces
2005-2006
NASA, Carnegie Institute of Washington, John Hopkins University, and the Burns Telecom Center of Montana State University — Bozeman, MT
Re-designing and front-end developing the Education and Public Outreach website for the NASA project Mercury: MESSENGER from start to completion. Working with a team of four and attending weekly meetings including teleconferences with representatives from NASA, The Carnegie Institute of Washington, and John Hopkins University.
2004-2005
Contract Clients
- Divvy
UI Design, Front-End Development - Talentspring
UI Design - Campuschai
UI Design, Front-End Development - Friendship Adventures
Branding - Business Resource Group
UI Design, Email Campaign - Don't Blink Media
Flash Advertising Campaign Banners - Partner On-Call Network
UI Design, Front-End Development - Jan's Doula Services
Branding, UI Design, Front-End Development
Education
BFA in Graphic Design, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.
Courses include: advanced graphic design, advanced drawing, typography, printmaking, illustration, and art history.
