Gary M. Davis
338 Susquehanna Road
Rochester, New York 14618
585.244.5177
Summary
Highly proficient and skilled User-Interface Designer and Architect. Diverse skills include creating wire-frames and storyboards, process flows, user profiles and scenarios, detailed behavior specifications, style guides, icons, graphics, nomenclature and messaging. Strong understanding of and commitment to business objectives, marketing, and technology.
Key Proficiencies
- Scope of talent encompasses conceptual, logical and physical design
- Expertise using Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand
- Professional experience with Flash, Director, Dreamweaver and others
- Working knowledge of web technologies including Apache, XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, XML, Ajax, XSL and SOAP
Professional Experience
Eastman Kodak
Rochester, New York July 2007- Present
Design Consultant – Analyzed workflows and proposed simplifications. Proposed designs and planned usability tests. Created or updated complex specifications.
Pitney Bowes
Shelton, Connecticut February 2007- April 2007
Design Consultant - Planned and conducted usability tests and authored test report. Performed heuristic assessments. Contributed to the conceptual design of new software products. Produced graphics for printing.
Xerox
Rochester, New York March 1996 - December 2006
User Interaction Designer – Led or participated in interdisciplinary teams for the design of major features and services. Provided User Interaction Design support including competitive benchmarking, workflow analysis, architecture, graphics and nomenclature, usability test planning and reporting, wire-frames, storyboards, style guides and detailed specifications.
- Designed print drivers that improved success rates over 200% on key tasks and were adopted as the company-wide design standard.
- Increased reseller interest in Xerox equipment over competitors by devising a complete end-to-end system to direct sales of supplies to the original reseller.
- Enhanced usability and customer satisfaction by unifying several divergent authentication, accounting and access schemes into a single coherent design.
- Led an interdisciplinary team in the creation of a ground-breaking new walk-up network email service that was adopted throughout the product line.
- Improved usability and simplified the workflow for the Build Job feature on Xerox products, improving success rates in excess of 50% and productivity more than 20%.
- Increased the collection of revenue over $1M per year through redesign of the billing meters UI and establishment of coherent nomenclature across devices.
- Successfully scaled UI architecture across various display sizes and resolutions while maintaining a common look and feel.
Marietta
Cortland, New York July 1995 - February 1996
Freelance Designer - Designed custom amenities labeling and carton graphics for several national hotel chains. Developed contract packaging for national manufacturers.
Smith Corona
Cortland, New York March 1994 - July 1995
Senior Industrial Designer - Explored new product concepts and modified existing products. Developed graphical user interface designs. Established workflow procedures for the team. Coordinated internal and external services.
Cleary Graphics , Inc.
Fayetteville, New York October 1990 - February 1994
Designer - Created publications in various languages. Pioneered work-group procedures and trained employees in the efficient use of software. Implemented an automated backup system.
Crosman Air Guns/ Ranging
East Bloomfield, New York April 1987 - August 1989
Freelance Consultant - Assisted the company's expansion into new markets by developing comprehensive designs for new products or modifying existing products. Designed packaging and logos, created illustrations, coordinated printing and contributed to promotional schemes.
Education
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Syracuse, New York
Bachelor of Industrial Design, 1985
Patents
Awarded: 6134019 Help button service for a user interface..., 7154628 Job secure overwrite failure notification. Pending: 20050198145 Pay e-mail methods and systems, 20040261035 Automatic tab displaying and maximum tab storing user interface..., 20030043398 Print driver user interface, 20070188772 Recursive build job graphical user interface
Other
Co-founder, coach/mentor of 3 First Lego League Robotics Teams.
Board member PCC LEAH Homeschool Support Group
Designed and operate several low-cost and profitable websites.
