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Donald Ahrens
CAREER SUMMARY

Over 20 years experience as manager of product development and designer of interactive applications for television, web, and mobile devices.

SKILLS
  • • Design user interfaces for interactive applications
  • • Build animations and prototypes that illustrate user interactions
  • • Work within collaborative teams across groups/disciplines
  • • Skilled at all stages of development process from product definition to shipping final product
  • • Verbal and written communication especially regarding technology
WORK HISTORY
  • 2013–2015 • MOVE • Senior Interaction Designer
  • 2002–2012 • COMCAST • Director Interactive Design
  • 1999–2002 • MICROSOFT • Design Manager
  • 1997–1999 • WEBTV • Graphic/UI Designer
  • 1994–1997 • TENTH PLANET • Creative Director
  • 1993–1994 • META DESIGN • Director of Digital Video
  • 1990–1993 • APPLE/DISCOVERY STUDIOS • UI Designer/QuickTime Expert
TOOLS
  • Sketch
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Flash
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe After Affects
  • Proto.IO
  • Azure
RECENT PROJECTS

Real Estate Agent Online Tools
Designed a dashboard that real estate agents use to get a "shapshot" of their business. The dashboard was designed to be simple and easy to scan visually. The design was built as a responsive design that scaled to display appropriately on tablets and mobile devices.

Real Estate Agent CRM
Designed a CRM application built specifically for real estate agents. The application addressed the need for a very simple CRM that collates leads from many different sources and displays them in one application. The app also has a contact list the agent can use to manage contact info from their leads.

TV Alerts
Led project and specifically the UI/UX effort for a set of television alerts. Alerts included Caller ID, new email, voicemail, text messages, and new DVR recordings.

EXPANDED NETWORK CONTENT ON TV
Led visual design and UX effort to create a software and UX infrastructure so networks could display expanded content in Comcast’s TV Set-top Guide, XFINITY Online Guide, and Mobile Device Guide. The expanded content included episodes from current and previous seasons, special interviews with cast and crew, and advertising for other network shows.

EDUCATION
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES • San Francisco State University
  • ONGOING DESIGN & SOFTWARE CLASSES • Foothill College, SF City College
CONTACT INFO
  • ahrens.don@gmail.com
  • 415 308 9971