curriculum vita

Kieran Lynn
6929 N Maryland Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
p. (541) 968-3088
e. kieran@octothorpstudio.com
 
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I am a graphic designer, a user experience designer, an information architect, a developer, communicator, amateur map maker…a new idea of what I want to do and where I want to go every week.

I employ a process rich interactive development strategy that involves heavy conceptual design, high-level documentation, user experience design, information architecture, visual design and full development. As a seasoned a developer with over ten-years of experience I bring a deep understanding of interactive software development both on and off of the web, front and back-end. As a trained designer I bring a keen eye for high-quality visual design and typography that lives in harmony with highly functional and well considered design solutions.

For the last three years I have been an Interaction Designer with Second Story Interaction Studios, a leader in interaction and experience design for museums. My focus is on the fusion between graphic design, interaction design, content, and technology working to develop considered information design solutions, with high-quality visual design, functional and expressive user-experience design, and highly structured development strategies. All with the goal to create beautiful and enchanting experiences for people to enjoy and learn from.

» education

  • University of Oregon, B.S. Multimedia Design, 2005

» employment

Independent Consulting, Designer & Developer, January 2006—Present

As an independent consultant I work with my clients to develop robust, well designed websites to help realize their long-term communications strategies. My role covers the whole spectrum, from client relations and project management, to user-experience and visual design, to full interactive development and QA. I employ a malleable process to work within my clients limited resources to achieve their objectives while maintaining the highest quality user-experience and visual design standards.

Clients include: Cabazon Books, Canoe, Downstream, University of Oregon, School of Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Archaeological Mapping Lab, Watson + Partners

Second Story Interactive Studios, Lead Interaction Designer, June 2006—December 2009

My role as an Interaction Designer spaned the gamut of the project cycle with a high-level of involvement throughout the process. From concepting, to schematic and functional development and documentation, information architecture, visual design development, and some programming, I worked with my project team to realize individual, project, studio and client goals as well as manage the day-to-day development and interaction with developers, junior designers, production artists, and producers working on the project.

Clients include the: AIGA, Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center, Grammy Museum, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Library of Congress, National WWI Museum, Oregon Historical Society, Seattle Art Museum, Walt Disney Family Museum, and WNET Thirteen NY.

» training & experience

training

  • Adobe Suite
  • Information Architecture
  • Hand/Digital Typesetting
  • Letterpress
  • Screen Printing
  • Darkroom Photography
  • History
  • Research
  • Criticism
  • Writing

development

  • Flash, Actionscript 3.0 (PureMVC) (+++)
  • PHP (CakePHP) (+++)
  • HTML (+++)
  • CSS (+++)
  • MySQL (++)
  • Javascript, AJAX (++)
  • WPF, XAML (++)
  • Relational Database Modeling (++)
  • c++ (+)

interests

  • Processing
  • OpenFrameworks
  • VVVV
  • Python
  • Mapping & ArcGIS

» awards & recognition