Christopher Z. Griffin

Web & Mobile Interface Designer

Contact

Email
me@chrisgriffin.org
Phone
(213) 375-4040
Website
chrisgriffin.org

Experience

Designer / Front-end Web Developer

Goldstar Events, Pasadena, California

Mar 2011 - Present

  • Responsible for designing user interfaces and producing modern & accessible HTML/CSS for Goldstar.com

Interaction Designer

GOGII, Marina del Rey, California

Oct 2009 - Mar 2011

  • Responsible for overall UI design — conceptualizing & crafting new features for textPlus, a free iOS and Android texting app.
  • Produced user flows and user interfaces for iOS & Android.
  • Produced marketing materials for textPlus, including maintaining the website, textPlus.com, and in-app ads.

Principal

Deadbolt, Los Angeles, California

Sept 2003 - Present

  • Responsible for overall management of the company, including client interaction, research, strategy, and executing the project plan.
  • Producing brand identities & visual designs from for small to medium size companies.
  • Authoring HTML & CSS and migrating code into a content management system to manage dynamic content.

Interface Designer

Planet Argon, Portland, Oregon

Dec 2006 - Apr 2009

  • Responsible for designing and developing user interfaces for client web applications written in Ruby on Rails.
  • Provided art direction and collaborated on user experience direction.
  • Produced visual designs for web applications from the layout to the user interface elements.
  • Authored HTML, CSS, and (a small amount of) javascript in Ruby on Rails applications.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Digital Media (Concentration in Interactive Media)

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Aug 2003 - Feb 2005

Dropped out. Requirements unfulfilled.

Associate of Arts, General Transfer

Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee, Florida

Jan 2002 - Jul 2003

Toolbox

Expert
Adobe Photoshop
HTML
CSS
Intermediate
Adobe Illustrator
Javascript (jQuery)
OmniGraffle
Git
Ruby on Rails
Working knowledge
Apache
Linux Server Administration
MySQL
PHP