Russ Pate

Visual Designer & Front-End Engineer

Experience

Real Thread, Visual Designer & Jr. Front-End Engineer

Feb 2018 - Present / Remote

Requirements

As a Visual Designer, a key member of the marketing team, owning marketing design projects, and directly elevating the brand with every creation. Always looking to simplify complex concepts into elegant, on-brand customer experiences while always looking for creative ways to evolve the brand identity. As a Jr. Front-End Engineer, report to a Senior Engineer and collaborate in telling highly designed and well crafted digital stories using current web technologies.

Whiteboard, Interactive Design Lead

2016 - 2018 / Chattanooga, TN

Requirements

Graphic, Print, Web, and User-Interface Design. The role encourages a multi-disciplinary approach to high level design of marketing websites, content based subscription services, and applications (both web and mobile) by use of collaborative design thinking.

Wier/Stewart, Visual Design

2014 - 2016 / Augusta, GA

Requirements

Graphic & Web Design. Versatile knowledge and execution of design thinking by applying brand to both print and digital mediums.

Onyx Creative Group, Visual Design

2013 - 2014 / Tallahassee, FL

Requirements

Design & Strategy. Collaborate with strategists for the creation and coordination of visual identities and ad campaigns. Use traditional design principles and technology to tell client's stories through the web.

CGI Federal, Visual Design

2012 - 2013 / Remote

Requirements

Knowledge of mobile user-interface design and development requirements for proprietary iOS applications. Create the visual look and feel for the User-Experience team by skinning iPad and Web applications in Photoshop and in browser using HTML / CSS. Collaborate with multiple developers in an Agile environment.

Education

Georgia Southern University

Completed May 2012

Degree

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design

The Iron Yard

Completed May 2016

Area of Focus

Front-End Engineering