Mark Stover | Resume

o v e r v i e w
	Design manager with UI/UE expertise and hands-on experience in all aspects of creative, online design, user experience, information arch, product dev, branding, strategy, and more. I bring a wealth of experience, a can-do attitude, a fun and humorous disposition, along with the commitment and sweat required to get the job done. I'm inspired by the ideas and input of others and thrive on completing the circuit with my own brand of enthusiasm, and creative contribution. I'm a self-starter and perfectly comfortable working with a minimal amount of input, I'm also at home within the confines of an established structure. My ideal is to secure a position in an environment which cultivates creativity and innovation, where I can utilize my depth of experience across many disciplines to deliver results across a larger scope. I'm no stranger to hands-on design and coding, but in today's environment I understand the importance of leveraging expertise beyond my personal experience—because the reality is... no one can do everything.

e x p e r i e n c e
	StoverPix 07/09 to Now	Owner
	StoverPix has serviced the creative, design and production needs of large corporations like Cisco, HP, Apple, PayPal, and others, as well as small companies, agencies, and start-ups. From website design, coding HTML/CSS/AS/JS/PHP/JSP, micro-sites, interactive Flash applications, illustration, e-mail campaigns, logo design, video, slide-ware, and even print production. A few recent projects include: Flash based interactive product environment demo for Cisco. All text and image content is defined via .XML for flexibility and globalization. See the documentation. This is currently being retooled for iPhone. Design and annotation for a Russian commerce site redesign Logo design for brick and mortar Shoe store identity Design the Halo Legends site. Design the Batman site, with an iGoogle theme. A quick pocket brochure for a Wine tour company. A motion graphics video that explains the fine points of an electron beam technology. A 4 month stint with PayPal's global e-mail campaign migration to solve rendering problems of of submitted e-mails and to document best practices for vendors.

	Mixercast 02/07 to 07/09	Creative Services Director
	Mixercast specialized in the social networking widget space sporting a versatile platform and Flash application tool for creating, sharing, distributing, and tracking branded widget applications across Social Networks. When Mixercast shifted it's business proposition from B2C to B2B via white-labeling the tools and licencing the platform, I managed the design and production of 95% of the projects from concept to delivery for clients including Google, New Line Cinema, Intel, Marvel Comics, ET, MTV, Intuit, Comedy Central, and many others, which constituted most of the incoming revenue. As UI designer, it was my job to work with engineering to develop the tools as the platform was ported from AS2 to the AS3 Flex architecture. Many new features where added, all of which had to be defined, mapped, tested, and documented. Other products I helped spec and manage include a video editing timeline application, as well as a Gigya type distribution tool which moved all the social networking sharing functionality and associated data collection from the external Gigya platform to Mixercast internal, and would eventually compete with Gigya and Clearspring in that market.

	BEA Systems 05/03 to 05/07	Manager of Online Design
	My contributions focused on the online/marketing side of business including all aspects of creative, design, site updates, UI, UE, AI, brand management, product promotion etc... Collaborated with all MarCom teams on initiatives through the entire process, from inception to launch. Managed and directed contractors and agencies on product launch efforts as well as events such as beaWorld 05 thru 07. Directed the bea branding and site redesign and managed implementation via Documentum. Redesigned and managed the homepage with emphasis on global language sites to enable effortless updates in Flash and DHTML.

	Blend MediaWorks 02/01 to 05/02	Product Development/Client Services
	Blend MediaWorks technology turns the browser into a media player, synchronizing web content over time. My initial contribution was to demonstrate the power and versatility of the technology by creating full featured demos and products for clients such as FoodTV, KTVU, Warner Bros., Prime Media, Universal Studios and Cisco Systems. As a member of the top tier product development team, my responsibility expanded to spearhead product features and functionality, as well as contribute technical input and document product specifications. My role as power-user of the "blender" product afforded me the responsibility of point person for all aspects of the product such as externally controlled dynamic Flash objects, toolbar, time slider, picture loader, animated text messaging, trivia games, bullet list builder and more.

	Solopoint.com 12/99 to 11/00	Manager of UI Design & Prod. Dev.
	Define the entire UI, functionality, and portal strategy for a touch-screen Internet/phone appliance. Assembled a design and production team to create a limited function prototype used by the CEO and sales team. Acted as point person, and managed the Lutris development team (an outside contractor) in writing all documentation and function specs and personally authored and produced much of the documentation. My involvement spanned the full spectrum of product conception, planning, UE and development.

	San Jose Mercury News 7/98 to 12/99	Online Creative Director
	SILICONVALLEY.COM Contracted, and later hired as the Online Creative Director, to build an online product called SiliconValley.com, which migrated all the high-tech content from MercuryCenter.com into a separate, very focused Tech voice of Silicon Valley. My responsibilities ran the gamut of site architecture, UI design, team management, training, asset management, technical direction, partner and affiliate strategies, and brand building on both SiliconValley.com and the SJ Merc. sites.


	LVL interactive 7/95 to 8/97	Creative Director & Cofounder
	I managed a team of designers and producers and pulled from a pool of resources in the planning, architecture, production and coding of large scale web sites. Helped grow the team from the 4 founding members to a team of over 20. A few of our many clients include: Disney, Oracle, Quicken, Genuity, EggHead and BofA. I also championed and implemented company procedures and processes, including a data-base for tracking job costs, employee time, backup, archiving procedures, and asset management.


	StoverPiX Founded 1989 to present	Owner and Founder
	StoverPiX started during the DTP era and built a reputation with clients for being in tune with their needs and delivering top quality product under the challenge of often impossible deadlines. StoverPiX specialized in high-end digital illustration, corporate presentations, 3-D modeling and rendering, multicolor brochure design and multimedia presentations for such clients as 3Com, Apple, Cisco, and many others.

References and print portfolio available on request