Chris is a seasoned web, graphic and UI/UX front end designer. For the last several years, Chris has been an integral part of the U.S. Army Digital Media Division designing web sites for multiple Medal of Honor recipients, several key micro sites and conceptualizing and designing various parts of CORE – the U.S. Army’s custom built content management system.

Additionally, Chris has over twenty years of print and web design experience in both Mac and PC
environments. Chris has also worked with a multitude of clients, including advertising agencies, national magazines and direct mail consulting firms.

Chris has an active Secret Security Clearance and does not foresee any difficulties a future TS/SCI clearance.

Link Solutions, Inc. – 6/2017 to Current
Web and UI/UX Designer – U.S. Army Digital Media Division

1. Primary current responsibilities include conceptualizing and designing several sections of the U.S.
   Army’s custom content management system, CORE. Some of these sections include:
   – Designing a custom media library
   – Conceptualizing and wire framing a CMS Tag Manager
   – UI/UX design for a WYSIWYG interface for importing photos and PDFs
   – Designing an image light box for uploading and cropping images
2. Has designed multiple Medal of Honor micro sites
3. Conceptualized and designed the U.S. Army Families micro site

Bluewater Federal – 9/2016 to 2/2017
FEMA and GSA – Digital Media Specialist and UI/UX Designer

• UI/UX Full Stack designer for the Ready.gov web site
• Redesigned the GSA Rate Per Diem table – the highest trafficked GSA web page
  Redesigned and maintained various GSA web pages utilizing Drupal Content Management System

EDSI – 12/2015 – 9/2016
Head of web graphics and UI/UX design for USMC – PM Ammo
Utilizing Axure, Bootstrap, FontAwesome, Adobe Creative Suite Programs, DNN & Telerik:

• Redesigned and updated the UI/UX of multiple USMC-PM Ammo web applications
• Designed all UI/UX mock-ups utilizing hand sketches, Axure, Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator

Sevatec – 2/2015 to 12/2015
Web Designer for the U.S. State Department Embassy Redesign team
Utilizing WordPress, CSS, Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator and InDesign:

• Designed template for the entire US Embassy redesigned website project
• Designed mock-ups of the wire frames for the Embassy CMS using Fireworks, Photoshop & Illustrator

STG Inc. / Access Systems Inc


 to 9/2009 – 2/2015
Web, graphic and UI/UX designer

Designed front-end applications for five different U.S. Marines project teams

Radford University – 1986 to 1991
Bachelor of Science – Graphic Design

Radford, Virginia

MCAD – 1985 to 1986
Maryland College of Art & Design
Transferred to Radford University after one year of study

SportsLife
Sports apparel company logo design (2016)

Alexandria School System
Algebra and Literacy Online Framework Courses
Madcap designed (2011)

Nifty Copper Operation Birla Pty, Australia
Safety Campaign Poster Design (2011)

New Riders Press
Co-authored two books on Macromedia
design programs (2002 and 2004)

Acrobat , Axure Prototype, Adobe Creative Suite, Bootstrap, CMS Experience, Copy writing, CSS, Dot Net Nuke, Dreamweaver, Drupal, E-Mail Marketing, HTML 5 , Illustrator, InDesign, Mac and PC Experience, MadCap Flare, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Procreate, QuarkXpress, Responsive Design, Sharepoint, Slack, Social Media, Visio, WordPress

Traditional Illustration, Digital Illustration, Cartooning, Marketing, Trade Shows