About me

Cristi ANTOHI

Identity, Interactive and Graphic designer with over 13 years experience. XHTML and CSS aficionado and focused on designing and developing Web Sites that make use the latest modern techniques to achieve accessibility, branding, and high end usable designs. Keen interest in optimizing Web based applications, form private to online public content management systems, using XHTML and CSS to a level of balance between semantically correct markup, SEO targeted and CSS smart capabilities to bring consistency and portability within any working application.

Special attention on measurable, achievable results including optimizations of response time, server resources, and front-end rendering. Experienced at teaching people of varying cultural and technical levels about Web standards-based, cross-browser compatible designs and code.

Summary of Qualifications

  • 13+ years of working experience
  • Strong graphic design skills, artistic sense, and fluency graphic design software.
  • Ability to work within and build upon the existing brand guidelines and ideology.
  • Deep understanding of information flow, readability, and interface usability design principles.
  • A passion for Brand and Identity Design, GUI and Web Page graphic design, Gaming Art and Motion Graphics and Communication.
  • Experience creating pixel art for low-resolution displays.
  • Hand Coding Expertise
  • SEO and Ranking Expertise, Group or Geo targeted.
  • Deep understanding of website usability principles and information architecture
  •  Ability to observe, understand, and translate research (website usage data, field observation, contextual interviewing, task analysis, usability testing, competitive analyses, industry trends, social trends) to related or targeted field.
  • Awareness of current trends in web and UX design
  • Excellent documentation and presentation skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Unrelenting self-motivation and initiative
  • Comfortable with Microsoft Visual Studio work flow, team buildings and meetings.
  • SEO and Ranking Expertise, Group or Geo targeted.
  • Optimization of high traffic, large scale sites (+2000) pages.
  • Valid standards-based design which maximizes cross-browser compatibility without compromising style.
  • Adept at content management system adaptation, using CSS, to harmonize existing branding and site styles.
  • Experienced accessibility consulting.
  • Solid project management skills

Technical Expertise

SOFTWARE
Adobe Creative Suite 3, 4, 5
Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Dreamweaver
Flash CS5 / After Effects CS5  - Medium / Advanced
Jasc PSP 7, 8, 9
Microsoft Visual Studio, MVC, Tortoise SVN, Contribute, Microsoft Office, Open Office

MARKUP AND PROGRAMMING
HTML / XHTML / CSS - Expert
JavaScript / JQuery / PHP / ASP.net - Beginner / Medium

CMS / CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Joomla, Concrete5, Wordpress, ModX, DNN

PERFORMANCE
Testing, evaluation, and improvement of website performance.

CROSS BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
Sophisticated CSS and XHTML that works equally well in all modern browsers and degrades gracefully in the aging 4.X browsers, which receive all of the content with simplified style. IE 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, IE Mac 5.2, Firefox, Netscape, Safari, Konqueror, and Opera.

ACCESSIBILITY
WAI A - AAA, including; alt text, long descriptions, labels, forms, color analysis, tables, structural markup, abbreviations, tab order, keyboard shortcuts, skip links, consistency, and navigation, and the U.S. law, Section 508.

Professional Experience

Web Officer & Identity Graphic Design
Current location: Luxembourg
Strong emphasis on Branding & Identity Design for IT products, services and marketing campaings.
ASP.net and MVC / Microsoft Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 HTML/XHTML/CSS implementation and debug.
2010 – 2011
Clients / US / Canada / Australia / Europe

Web Officer & Graphic Design
Phasmo US
2005 – 2010
Clients / US / Canada / Australia / Europe

Freelance
Graphic Design industry
1998 - 2004
Clients / Europe

Languages

  • English - fluent
    • French - mendium

Certifications and Awards

Education

Ludovic Pageac Art School
Graphics and Design / 2001 – 2004