janet@tingeydesign.com
www.tingeydesign.com
503-203-7961
Fearless, enthusiastic, conscientious maven of interactive design with extensive management and hands-on experience in development of web, interactive TV, and CD-ROM products. Effective at building and mentoring design staffs. Excellent at developing, nurturing, and maintaining relationships with internal and external clients. Exceptional interpersonal, writing, and presentation skills. Strategic thinker with a proven ability to design solutions that address both business and end-user goals. Clear, coherent developer of information design, information architecture, functional specifications, and graphic expressions.
User Interface Design Manager
Ingram Digital
LaVergne, TN
Apr 2007-Present
Responsible for web application product development from both business analysis and end user experience standpoints to support global book distribution in digital formats. Responsibilities include:
Adjunct Faculty
Art Institute of Portland
Portland, OR
Sept 2002-Mar 2007
Taught a variety of classes in the Interactive Media Design Department, such as Information Design, User Centered Design, Foundation/Digital Portfolio, and Special Topics classes. Developed curriculum from the ground up for several of these classes. Participated in review of program curriculum.
Sole Proprietor
Tingey Design
Portland and New York City
May 1989-Present
Sole Proprietor of design firm specializing in multimedia development and interface design as well as print design. Clients have included: Disney (on-site consultant for design and information architecture for Family.com), AT&T (on-site consultant for design and information architecture for Downtown Digital, an interactive television field trial), Perseus Publishing Group, Philips Media, The Voyager Company, MediaWorks, HarperCollins, Macmillan Publishing USA, St. Martin’s Press, Random House
Senior Art Director
Time Inc. Interactive
New York City
Aug 1999-Aug 2001
Time Inc. Interactive functions as an in-house consulting group at Time, Inc. The group provides internet expertise and best practices to the magazine dot coms owned by Time, Inc. on everything from business strategy to complete site design and development. Projects I worked on during my tenure included: Teen People, Time for Kids, Sports Illustrated for Women, Real Simple, People, and Money.
Multimedia Designer / Technology Specialist
The Equitable
New York City
Feb 1998-Aug 1999
Responsible for establishing design for overall branding and market presence for The Equitable Insurance Company's web sites.
Design Director
Macmillan Digital USA
A Viacom Company
New York City
Dec 1994-Oct 1996
Responsible for supervision of all design issues for electronic consumer reference publishing group: interface and graphic design for CD-ROM titles, collateral marketing materials, complete product packaging, and web sites developed to support published CD-ROM titles as well as marketing sites for Macmillan Digital.
Adjunct Professor
New York University
Sept 1993-Dec 1998
Taught Motion Graphics and Elements of Visual Language at New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program for students of interactive and alternative media.
Visiting Instructor
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
Sept 1992-Dec 1993
Taught courses on interface design and software applications in both the undergraduate and graduate Computer Graphics department.
Design Director
Macmillan Publishing Company
Trade and Reference Division
New York City
May 1987-Mar 1991
Supervised design department for publishing group which produced 350 titles per year as well as a calendar publishing program. Titles worked on included all kinds of books found in bookstores, from coffee-table quality art books to murder mysteries.
Masters of Professional Studies
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Dean’s List