Design Developer

JON WHITE

****: Minneapolis College of Art and Design

EDUCATION Bachelor of Fine Art. Double major in Graphic Design and Comic Art. Represent-

ed the Design department in student government. Elected to, and delivered, the

graduating-class commencement address (on the burden of history on artists).

2012 : Southern California Public Radio (KPCC 89.3)

WORK

expert

Seattle, wa. Pasadena, ca. Front-End & Mobile Designer/Developer. HTML5,

HTML5 (gracefully degredating)

CSS3, JS, design. Also: typography, bending, flexing, shrinking, telling, informing.

CSS3 (progressively enhancing)

jQuery (the Zen-like, Keithian way)

2010 2012: PBS KIDS Interactive

Responsiveness (the Marcottian way)

WordPress 3 (ground-up architecting) Arlington, va. Senior Web Designer. Putting on-brand pixels and semantic/

Photoshop, for design accessible/HTML5+CSS3+JS to PBS KIDS s interactive space. Emphasis on

Photoshop, for production responsive, engaging, iOS-adaptive interfaces. Lots of handcrafted Flash-to-

Browser harmony (from IE6 to iOS) HTML5 conversions. Lots of JSON. Lots of love.

Accessibility & SEO

Illustrator

2008 2009: Threespot Media

Premiere

InDesign Washington, dc. Front-end developer. Worked closely with the whole team (plus

vendors and clients) to make beautiful stuff with code that I m still proud of.

2006 2008: University of St. Thomas

good enough

Saint Paul, mn. Web & Media Specialist. Mix of interface design and front-end /

ExpressionEngine

Flash development for internal University/fundraising sites. Helped bring a new

Flash (the linear AS2-era stuff)

awareness and standard for form/content separation, and semantic, lean CSS.

Ajax (fetching & parsing & tweaking)

MySQL (for debugging WP)

PHP (ifs, conditionals, WP queries,

MORE WORK

A couple sites (IA, content strategy, design, front-end, WordPress) for Americans

parsing XML, rewriting XML, parsing

United for Separation of Church and State. A couple sites (front-end, WordPress)

JSON)

for Forum One Interactive. A published interactive cd-rom, and published vector

map illustrations, for Indiana University Press. An originally-authored, originially-

designed, 147-slide evangelism presentation on how new Web methodologies

are changing WordPress production adaptability; presented live on both coasts.

/ next pursuits

on deck

PhoneGap

Yet-fancier client-side data tricks

Keynes for Kids

EXTRA I love macroeconomics, teaching, illustrating, and making overambitious respon-

CURRICULAR sive websites. When I sat down to watch Krugman s 2011 Keynes/Cambridge

speech, it was all over. http://keynesforkids.com Marcotte retweeted it!

intangibles

Today s Document (Illustrated)

Able to really talk to designers

Able to really talk to back-end devs Being that I m an amateur historian, a lifelong illustrator/designer, and a tireless

Public speaking educator, something like this was inevitable [ http://todaysdocument.com ]. The

Distance running site has been featured in blogs both inside- and outside-of- the National Archives,

American history and was the subject of a recent Citizen Archivist video profile by NARA.

OUT+ABOUT

Judged 2011: PEER Awards ( Production/Internet ) / Washington, DC

Attended 2009: Ignite / Washington, DC

Attended 2008: An Event Apart / San Francisco, CA

Attended 2006: Flashbelt / Minneapolis, MN

2007: Minneapolis College of Art and Design

TEACHING Taught two 1-credit online workshops as a series called Web Development

Basics, geared at helping visual/interactive/print designers to understand and

feel comfortable writing semantic, effective code. The course was split between

http://jonwhitestudio.com

HTML Basics and Working with CSS.

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