James Rudy

Hi, I'm James Rudy. I provide innovative design and versatile development to individual clients and corporate brands. Check out the finished projects on my responsive portfolio site, James-Rudy.com

• James Rudy provides state of the art creative services, while utilizing a wide range of expertise to design and develop optimized digital media from concept to launch

Senior Web Designer & Developer at Sawyer Studios

August 2010 - Present | New York, NY

• Design & develop websites, flash banners, e-blasts, key art & social media for The Academy Awards® + independent film companies • Compile & serve digital advertising on MediaMind.com w/ EyeBlaster Workshop • Manage & provide tech support in cloud hosting (DNS), MySQL databases + SEO for all web projects

Freelance Web Designer at The New York Times

February 2010 - August 2010 | New York, NY

• Designed wireframes, style guides, demos & image assets for About.com, CalorieCount.com + ConsumerSearch.com

Freelance Digital Advertising Designer at DIRECTV

January 2010 - July 2010 | New York, NY

• Managed digital advertising mechanicals for the National Football League (NFL)

Contract Designer at Solomon Page Group

December 2009 - July 2010 | New York, NY

• Worked w/ the Director of Creative Recruiting, Rochelle Rubin, to meet the daily design needs of corporate clients

Contract Designer at Access Staffing

December 2009 - July 2010 | New York, NY

• Worked w/ the Creative Specialist, Kristen Rock, to meet the daily design needs of corporate clients

Freelance Digital Media Designer at Vice Media Group - Virtue Worldwide

January 2009 - December 2009 | New York, NY

• Designed digital & print media for Vice Magazine, VICE Records, Viceland.com, VBS.tv + the ADVICE Network • Produced branding campaigns for Virtue Worldwide clients such as Mountain Dew, American Apparel, Converse + Colt 45 • Assisted the Senior Designer in the design & development of VBS.tv

Production Artist at The End Records

September 2007 - December 2008 | New York, NY

• Produced digital media & print merchandise for The End Records + affiliate artists

Freelance Graphic Designer at Lucille Khornak Photography

July 2007 - September 2007 | New York, NY

• Assisted the Photographer, Lucille Khornak, in post-production of photography & design of printed books

Freelance Graphic Designer at HiArt! Studio

July 2007 - September 2007 | New York, NY

• Designed integrated advertising & marketing materials for art workshops

Design Intern at BlackBook Media

June 2007 - September 2007 | New York, NY

• Designed wireframes for BlackBookMag.com, digital ads for BlackBook mobile & print editorial for BlackBook Magazine + City Guides

University of Notre Dame

2003 – 2007

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)

Concentration: Design

Activities: Designed for AdWorks (Campus Advertising Agency), The Juggler Magazine (Bi-Annual Art & Design School Magazine) and The Observer (Campus Newspaper)

Design, Development, ActionScript, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, AJAX, Apple Motion, CSS, DNS management, Dreamweaver, Drupal, FBML, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Flash Animation, FTP, HTML, Illustrator, InDesign, iOS development, iWork, JavaScript, Joomla, jQuery, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Photoshop, PHP, Rackspace Cloud, SEO, Web Hosting, Wordpress, Xcode