CHARLES TREAT
Mobile: (202) 870-7603
charles.treat@gmail.com

PROFILE

A seasoned design professional of large Internet properties and applications with experience in interactive web design, usability, and development-centric design. Demonstrated success managing design teams and delivering on high-quality design for interactive products. Expertise in communicating complex issues to diverse audiences with a focus on performance, accessibility, and creative. Experience interacting and supporting many stakeholders including c-level executives.

QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS

User Experience Design
Information and Knowledge Management
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Client Interactions and Presentations
Interactive Usability and Accessibility
High-impact Websites and Products
Iterative, Waterfall, and Agile Experience
Print, Layout, and Graphical Arts
Strong Communication Skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009 – Present DDC Advocacy, Alexandria, Va
Director, Creative Services

• Improving the quality of the company’s creative deliverables: writing, print collateral, direct mail, online advertising and interactive
• Direct the creative team, 8 full time employees and another 15 freelancers.
• Add key hires (supporting design capability).
• Interfaced with key vendors, including outsourced design and development teams.
• Responsible for design deliverables; site maps, wireframes, visual design, prototypes, user scenarios, task analysis, user goals, and UI specification.
• Also responsible for corporate branding including marketing collateral and a redesign of the corporate website (launching September 28th.

2008 – 2009 Personive, Inc. – Herndon, VA
Creative Director

• Early-stage company focused around next generation web applications. Focus around protecting users privacy in social media and increasing relevance for marketers through persona marketing.
• Directed the creative team.
• Added key hires (supporting design capability).
• Interfaced with key vendors, including outsourced development team.
• Responsible for design deliverables; site maps, wireframes, visual design, prototypes, user scenarios, task analysis, user goals, and UI specification.
• Also responsible for corporate branding including marketing collateral and white paper design.

2006 – 2008    AOL, LLC – Dulles, VA
Art Director

• Directed the design efforts for the AOL Portals Toolbar and syndicated products for the US and International audiences (110 million users).
• Developed strategy, documentation, and process for AOL Portal co-branding.
• Worked with key partners; Sony, Compaq, HP, and others.
• AOL IPTV offering for Windows Media Center, interfaced with outside agency Industry Next (NYC).
• Managed visual and UI design team.
• Widgetized AOL Products and Services, including AOL’s Portal and News Channels for use on 3rd Party sites; MyAOL, Google, Netvibes, and PageFlakes.

2005 – 2006    Dante Consulting – Arlington, VA
Senior Product Designer
Lead the redesign and re-branding efforts for the consulting firm, including all marketing collateral and web properties.

• Lead user interface and visual designer on key client projects.
• Engaged large customers like Verizon, Sprint, and AOL.
• 2001 – 2005    AOL, LLC – Dulles, VA
Senior Product Designer
• Lead designer for member education and retention efforts. The 50+ ongoing promotional campaigns managed increased traffic to AOL products and features by close to 200%.
• Designed for Alerts and Reminders, Safety and Security, PassCode, and both 8.0 and 9.0 client releases.
• Supported designed needs of AOL Games, Entertainment, Personal Finance, Sports, and Travel properties.

1999 – 2000    American University Library – Washington, DC
Webmaster

• Designed and maintained the website for American Universities Library.  Managed staff of web designers and technicians.

1998    Bixler, Inc. – Washington, DC
Web Developer

• Designed and maintained websites for for large clients including the Department of Treasury, Department of Commerce, DC Radio Station WMZQ, the McLaughlin Group, FOX Television, and Inter-American Development Bank.

EDUCATION

2000    Bachelor of Arts (Multimedia) with honors, American University – Washington, DC
Multi-disciplinary degree in Graphic Design, Web Development, Multimedia Authoring, and Computer Science

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Software and Systems:
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks), OmniGraffle, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite

Project & Collaboration:
Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Jira, MediaWiki, Trac

Platforms:
Macintosh and Windows

Other:
XHTML, Web Standards, CSS

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST