Interactive Director

About

Welcome to the professional website of Seth Schwartz, Interactive Director.

Marketing and Advertising professional with expertise in Interactive Design. Client experience includes: Siemens, Emerson, Phillips, Applied Biosystems, FMC, Xtra Lease, Genentech, Anheuser Busch.

I currently hold the position of Interactive Director with Harris D. McKinney located in downtown Chicago. I manage and direct the agency's day-to-day Interactive initiatives which involves directly reporting to the President of the agency, meeting with clients, assisting the account team with documentation and budgets, managing web designers and technology partners, conceptualizing with the creative group, creating design solutions, and putting out the occasional fire.

Before joining HDM, I held creative lead roles with DaVinci Software, TribalDDB, Arends Integrated Communications, and Mayfair Games. In those roles, I have led projects involving web & software development, tradeshow graphics, print design, & gaming products.

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Specialties:
GUI design, Graphic design, Functionality design, Usability, Web development process and best practices, CMS platforms, Adobe Creative Suite, Flash, Coda, Dreamweaver, BBEdit, HTML, CSS

Experience

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Interactive Director
McKinney|Chicago
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2002 – Present

Creative Director
DaVinci Software
(Computer Software industry)
2000 – 2002 (2 years)

Art Director
Tribal DDB
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1999 – 2000 (1 year)

Art Director
Arends Integrated Communications
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
1996 – 1999 (3 years)

Graphic Designer
Mayfair Games
(Entertainment industry)
1994 – 1996 (2 years)

Work
Client: Bimba Manufacturing
Project: Enterprise Corporate Website
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • EpiSever CMS
  • ImageVault Asset Management
  • XHTML
  • CSS3
  • jQuery
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Client: Harris D. McKinney (HDM)
Project: Company Website
Role:
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • WordPress CMS
  • XHTML
  • CSS3
  • jQuery
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Client: Bar Harbor BioTechnology
Project: Inaugural Website
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Flash
  • Actionscript
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Client: Equivoice
Project: Website redesign concepts
Role:
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Client presentations
Technology:
  • Photoshop
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Client: Apptera
Project: Corporate Website
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • Flash
  • Actionscript
  • XML
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Client: BioImagene
Project: Website redesign concept
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Client presentations
Technology:
  • Photoshop
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Client: Applied Biosystems
Project: Online Magazine
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
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Client: Telegraph Hill Partners
Project: Corporate Website
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
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Client: Applied Biosytsems
Project: Product Microsite
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Flash

Client: Trustwave
Project: Corporate Website (The current design was updated by Trustwave)
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design and direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Flash
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Client: Belden Universal
Project: Corporate Website (The current design was updated by Belden)
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Interface design and direction
  • Interactive design direction
  • HTML/CSS development
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • .NET 2.0 / SQL 2005 framework
  • Content Management System (CMS)
  • XML-driven navigation interfaced with CMS
  • XML Sitemap
  • Friendly URLs
  • URL rewriting rules
  • RFQ forms dynamically build product spec and are captured in CRM application with a PDF copy on submission
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Client: Incyte
Project: Recruiting Website
Role:
  • Project management
  • Interface design
  • Web design
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
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Client: Applied Biosystems
Project: On-demand Presentation
Role:
  • Interface design
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • Flash
  • Streaming Flash encoded video
  • Actionscript
  • XML
  • PNG
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Client: BioSante Pharmaceuticals
Project: Corporate Website
Role:
  • Interviewed key stakeholders
  • Requirements gathering
  • Scope development
  • Interactive design direction
  • Client presentations
  • QA/QC management
Technology:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
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Client: Applied Biosystems
Project: Seminar Introduction
Role:
  • Visual and motion design
  • Flash development
  • Client presentation
Technology:
  • Flash
  • Actionscript
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