Houshang Livian

Houshang Dee Livian
PO BOX 2062
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

831•521•4176
Email: design@houshanglivian.com

OBJECTIVE

Seeking User Interface Designer position to work with a team to build innovative applications utilizing my skills in visual design and technical development.

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Visual design using Photoshop  and Illustrator – 11yrs
  • Branding websites for mental and emotional impact – 10yrs
  • Advanced design skills in vastly different styles – 10yrs
  • User Interaction Design and Information Architecture – 10yrs
  • Advanced Flash ActionScript – 11yrs
  • Web Development and UI Prototyping with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript – 11yrs
  • Project Management – 7yrs
  • Team building and management – 7yrs
  • Customer Relationship Management – 7yrs
  • Perl, PHP, Linux, MySQL – 10yrs

EXPERIENCE

10/02 – Current : Houshang Livian Web Experience Design
Owner/UI Designer/Project Manager/Programmer

  • Design custom interfaces for small and midsized businesses.
  • Serve as consultant for small business on maximizing results on the internet.
  • Serve a vast amount of diverse customer relationships.
  • Focus on building web experiences that create specific mental and emotional reactions based on psychological research into branding.
  • Design small custom software systems to add value to existing Content Management Systems like WordPress and Joomla.
  • Manage/Hire a team of professional developers/designers to deliver top-notch web experiences.
  • Design vast array of websites with high flexibility of styles to fit the clients

05/00 – 10/02 : Full Steam Marketing and Design
Dynamic Media Developer

  • Used XHTML, CSS, JavaScript to build agency quality websites.
  • Designed websites for high end clients with sophisticated tastes.
  • Software Development: Database Listings Program: Granted client ability to add and delete various listings that are dynamically viewable on the web. Possible uses are as Event Calendars, Job Listings and News Stories.
  • Software Development: Client Side Single HTML Page Editor: Grants client ability to edit a single page of content on their site using a web browser and through a password protected program. Currently in use at Natividad Hospital, Gill’s Onion’s and Monterey County’s Common Ground.
  • Software Development: Client Browser HTML Uploader: Grants client ability to update a webpage. Using HTML exported from a Microsoft Word or Excel Document. This program formats the uploaded HTML file into a template and FTP’s the file to the remote site. Currently being used by the Hartnell College Western Stage.
  • Software Development: Database Driven E-Mail Broadcasting Program: Uses CRON function of Linux to update a database of e-mail addresses, extracted from e-mail that’s been received by the client. Allows client to have a constantly expanding e-mail database and a web-based e-mail broadcaster to send information to every e-mail address.

12/99 – 05/00 : CTB/McGraw Hill
Desktop Publisher/Illustrator

  • Use of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and PageMaker to construct CTB test booklets.
  • Created illustrations for school test booklets.

EDUCATION

Ongoing : Independent Study
Books, Blogs, Articles etc

  • Usability Design
  • Information Architecture
  • Navigation Design
  • Game Theory for Web Design
  • Team Building
  • CSS Techniques
  • Web Graphic Design Techniques
  • JQuery
  • CMS Design
  • Social Media

1/99 – 5/01 : Monterey Peninsula College – Monterey, CA
General education and professional development classes.

8/97 – 4/98 : The Atelier - Oakland, CA
Study of master’s technique in Classical Realism painting.

8/96 – 8/97 : The Academy of Art of San Francisco – San Francisco, CA
Studied Fine Art, Illustration and Painting.