Another Day Another Design is an affordable, full-service web and graphic design company owned and operated by Rick Schober, an award-winning designer, information architect, video editor, copywriter, and search engine optimist whose experience dates back to the pre-PC era when cutting-edge design skills included the proper use of T squares, ink pens, and press-on type.
web technologies
CSS
DHTML
HTML
Javascript
XML
software
Acrobat
After Effects
Captivate
Dreamweaver
Flash
Freehand
Illustrator
InDesign
Media 100
Photoshop
PowerPoint
Premiere
Quark Xpress
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employment
Senior Web and Media Designer
The Hanover Insurance Group, Worcester, MA
2008 – 2009
• Designed and produced learning resource websites for the company's Human Resources
• department.
• Working with the instructional design team, designed and produced SCORM-compliant
• eLearning course modules and interactive software demos.
• Led configuration efforts for the implementation of a new learning management system (LMS).
• Maintained the learning department's presence on the company's Intranet.
Contract Interaction and User Interface Designer
Salary.com, Waltham, MA
2008
• Defined information flows and designed multiple user interactions for new online
• performance review application.
• Produced mockups and graphical elements for the application.
• Conducted usability testing sessions.
Manager, Web Operations and Visual Communications
iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations, Bedford, MA
2006 – 2008
• Served as webmaster, managing web operations for all company websites, ensuring the
• coordinated deployment of editorial content and site functionality.
• Designed information architectures, user interfaces, content layouts, and imagery for public
• and member websites.
• Designed, developed, and maintained public website.
• Coordinated email communications for registered customers.
• Designed user interfaces, icons, and other imagery for company's online racing simulation.
• Designed and produced direct mail pieces, interactive presentations, and other marketing
• and sales materials.
• Monitored site activity and produced monthly reports of site usage statistics.
Senior Web Designer
Progress Software Corporation, Bedford, MA
2000 – 2006
• Designed user interfaces, content layouts, and imagery for websites, email newsletters,
• and other online communications for the company and its subsidiaries.
• Maintained corporate websites.
• Met with marketing professionals and content owners from business units and company
• subsidiaries to determine needs related to their online presence.
• Tested new sites for usability issues.
• Designed user interfaces, icons, splash screens, and other imagery for software products.
• Designed and produced direct mail pieces, datasheets, white papers, interactive CD-ROMs,
• and other marketing materials.
• Developed and maintained online web design style guides for the company's sites.
• Wrote corporate web editorial style guide and monitored sites' content for spelling, grammar,
• and consistency issues.
Senior Designer
ActiveNation, Inc., Richmond, VA
1999 – 2000
• Met with company's clients to determine design requirements.
• Designed and maintained websites for clients.
• Designed logos and print materials for the company, its affiliates, and clients.
Freelance Web and Graphic Designer
1998 – present
• Provide ongoing web design support for WordStream, Inc., a developer of keyword research
• and search engine optimization (SEO) software.
• Provide graphic and web design, web development, and e-commerce solutions to local
• businesses and nonprofit organizations.
• Maintained the online presence of Boston Magazine and its affiliate publications, Elegant
• Wedding and New England Travel & Life.
• Designed, edited, and published a quarterly print publication with nationwide distribution.
• Designed the official T-shirt for the Head-of-the-Charles Regatta.
• Designed an award-winning logo for the Medford (MA) Public Library System.
Senior Designer and Multimedia Producer
Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA
1987 – 1998
• Produced and edited digital video and CD-ROM presentations for corporate marketing
• and technical applications.
• Designed and produced interactive marketing and training multimedia presentations.
• Designed and produced a variety of communications materials including brochures, newsletters,
• posters, and trade show displays.
• Designed and administered an online job-tracking, scheduling, and billing system for the
• graphics, multimedia, print, and photocopy operations.
• Led a 10-person marketing strategy team for the company's visual communications department.
Senior Illustrator
Dynamics Research Corporation, Andover, MA
1985 – 1987
• Designed logos, report covers, and page layouts for technical publications.
• Produced charts, graphs, and other informational illustrations.
• Supervised a four-person production team.
education
B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Computer Sciences courses at the Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA
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