Geoffrey Alan Colbath

Communication | Usability | Interaction

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Education

Master of Design (2006)
Human-Centered Communication Design
Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, IL.

Areas of focus: communication, interface and interaction design, rapid prototyping, sound processing, user observation, persona development, ethnographic studies, human factors, photography

Bachelor of Arts (2002)
Art; Graphic Design, Printmaking
Art History Minor

University of New Hampshire, Plymouth (Plymouth State College). Plymouth, NH.

Plymouth Scholar (1998) Dean’s List (1998), President’s List (2001), National Dean’s List (2002)

Employment

Sears Holdings Corporation
Position: Front-End Developer
Duties: Implementation of interface designs from wireframes in Visio/PDF format, combined with design comps in PSD format. Implementation utilized W3C standards-compliant, accessable HTML, supplimented with Ajaxian scripted interactive elements, using the jQuery Javascript framework. Visual elements were applied via external CSS stylesheets.

Sears Holdings Corporation
Postion: Webmaster
Duties: As a Webmaster, the role included managing content through a Websphere CMS, Accelerator, for agile implementation on the costomer-facing side of Sears and Kmart.com.

Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, IL.
Position: Interface/Interaction designer, Front-End Developer
Duties: Responsible for developing interfaces and dictating interactions for systems used in conjunction with the school’s intranet, SeeID.

Abilities

Windows XP Professional
Macintosh OS X
Adobe Crative Suite (including older Macromedia titles)
Microsoft Office
HTML, Javascript & CSS

Interests

Alpine Skiing
Golfing
Hiking
Climbing
Biking (Road and Mountain)
Camping