Daniel Swartz

I have been working as a User Interface Designer and Web Developer for over 12 years in Silicon Valley, Munich, Germany as well as starting out my career in Santa Barbara, California. I am currently the Senior Visual/UI designer for MerchantCircle.com, a website that quantcast currently ranks in the top 200 websites in the United States and one of the top 5 web business directories on the web. MerchantCircle.com has a monthly viewership of 22 million unique visitors and 47 million pages views per month.

Director of Product Management & Design, blekko; Redwood City, CA - 2009-present

blekko is currently in stealth mode and is coming soon. More description on my position to come later.

Lead UI/Visual Designer, MercantCircle; Los Altos, CA - 2005-2009

As the visual and UI designer for MerchantCircle, I have been responsible for the look and feel of the the entire site and application. The site's monthly traffic is 22 million unique visitors (47 million page views per month) and 900,000+ registered users (12,000+ paying members). I work side-by-side with the development team as well as the product manager in developing wire frames for product feature development as well as the full design of the final product in Photoshop. The implementation (XHTML & CSS) is then done by myself or my assistant for final implementation with the back-end developed by the engineers.

In addition to the merchant listings and city directories, I have also designed and maintained the UI for the user dashboard and all subsequent features. I have also designed and maintain the company's corporate website as well as all its related landing pages and company email templates.

Associate Creative Design, Sapient; Munich, Germany - 2004-2005

Work on variety of different projects as both a site developer and a graphic designer. Projects included companies such as Vodafone, T-Online, Star Alliance, Internal Sapient intranet sites and prototypes.

GUI Team Leader, Web Designer/Developer, eCircle AG; Munich, Germany - 2001-2004

Managed team that developed, designed and maintained user interface (from jsp developed back-end) for all four major product sites (over 14 million users); development of external communications materials, ie.e. email campaigns and custom eC-messenger interfaces for various clients; management of 5+ member team and projects for graphic user interface team; clients and product websites included Lidl, Coca-Cola, Karstadt, ADAC, MTV, Deutsche Post, Kodak, Thomas Cook, Dertour, Playboy, Focus, BNP Paribas and more.

Web Development Engineer, eCircles.com; San Mateo, CA - 1999-2000

Responsible for creation of HTML templates for internal and external online corporate communications; worked in conjunction with graphic designers and programmers (CGI, Java, ad server, etc) in implementation of key projects.

• Designed and maintained the eCircles.com web site. Site had a membership of 1.5 million people, and visits of more than 2 million people per month.
• Created email environment and templates for emails generated by eCircles web site. Emails were generated for various member activities by the system when members visited the site.
• Worked closely with marketing, implementing promotions and other campaigns on company web site and other online venues, such as promotional emails, shopping pages and postmaster drops.
• Generated promotional HTML emails, which were sent to eCircles members and visitors. More than 1 million HTML emails went out for each promotional email.

Web Applications Consultant, Key Point Software; San Jose, CA - 1998

Responsible for design and layout for both internal and external online communications projects; conducted HTML and Internet training courses throughout Silicon Valley including Hewlett-Packard and Larscom Corporation.

Web Designer and Developer, EGON Web Design; Santa Barbara, CA - 1996-1998

Co-founder of boutique-style consulting agency for various corporations in the Santa Barbara area; services included web site design and layout and HTML and Internet training sessions throughout the area.

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA - BA (History) 1995 / BM (Music) 1995

User Interface Design, (X)HTML, CSS(2+), XML, JavaScript, UNIX, Graphic Design, PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, Web Standards Compliant Design and Implementation.

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/pub/daniel-swartz/1/103/a1a

Additional recommendations upon request.

The following samples are a series of web pages (UI & Graphic Design) and print samples completely designed and implemented (XHTML, CSS) myself for both MerchantCircle and other companies.