Kevin Heis

Interactive Media Magician

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Kevin Heis

Interactive Media Magician

I am a front-end heavy web professional, with devotions of user interface implementation, user experience driven development, Javascript interaction and architecture, and backend data structuring as well as developing for maintainability. I’m known for concocting crazy ideas, some of which are occasionally fruitful. My background in design and art informs the decisions I make as a developer.

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Skills

Development

  • Client- and server-side development, iterative development, frameworks and APIs, version control
  • Object-oriented programming, design patterns and models, event management and animation, model-view-controller
  • Research, organization, project management, client interaction

Design

  • User interface design, information architecture, accessible design
  • Graphic design, motion graphic design
  • Sound recording and postproduction, camera operations, video editing and postproduction
Software and Languages

Environments

  • jQuery, jQuery UI, MooTools, Dojo
  • ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter, WordPress, Drupal, Apache
  • Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing, Flash

Languages

  • Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, Java, Lua, Actionscript 3, SQL

Software

  • Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, Soundtrack Pro
  • Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks
Experience

User Experience Developer Discogs – January 2012 to Current

    Front-End Web Developer Palo Alto Software – August 2010 to December 2011

    • Lead developer of company website refresh in ExpressionEngine
    • Primary Javascript coder on the front facing web team
    • Collaborated on development and improved UI consistency on Bplans.com, a site with 1.5mil unique visitors a month
    • Current projects include an HTML5 mobile application for a large government organization

    Interactive Developer and
    User Interface Designer University of Oregon – March 2009 to August 2010

    • Developed learning objects for university courses
    • Team projects included the UO Virtual Tour, a video repository for new teachers, an electronic music primer, an object about Russian culture and geography, and the UO Architecture Project Gallery

    Video Production Intern GarageGames – June 2009 to September 2009

    • Produced two videos and corresponding music soundtracks to market video game engines

    Intermedia Designer Triton Limited – March 2008 to December 2008

    • Drafted design recommendations for several websites and marketing items
    • Aided startup company in developing identity with web, motion graphic, and print design
    • Catered diverse skill set in interactive, video, and audio to project needs
    Education

    Master of Music University of Oregon – September 2008 to June 2010

    Intermedia Music Technology

    • Developed interactive musical audiovisual artwork
    • Areas of interest include audiovisual interaction, three-dimensional interaction, and artificial intelligence
    • Terminal Creative Project: Muziko Kreito Universo, a digital universe of intelligent music creatures

    Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Cincinnati – September 2004 to June 2008

    Electronic Media and Asian Studies

    Certificate Nagoya University of Foreign Studies – March 2006 to January 2007

    Japanese