Professional Experience
PRODUCT DESIGNER
Yahoo! | Present
Lead Designer for Yahoo! Hub. Designer for other mobile applications.
DESIGN INTERN
The New York Times | Fall 2010
Worked with multimedia team to design and develop various multimedia pages and interactive modules.
UX DESIGNER
Funny Garbage | Summer 2010
Create user flows, user profiles, user experience, information architecture and web wireframes for top level clients.
TEACHING FELLOW
Parsons, The New School for Design | Summer 2010
Develop web design curriculum and teach first year Parsons MFA Design & Technology candidates.
ART DIRECTOR
petLab at Parsons, The New School for Design | Present
Lead art direction and contribute to game and curriculum design for Games for Change curriculum funded by AMD and now being taught in Beijing.
DESIGN GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Parsons, The New School for Design | Present
Designed, developed and implemented various Parsons sites including School of Fashion, Transdisciplinary Design, School of Constructed Environments and School of Design Strategies.
ASSOCIATE DESIGNER
ESPN | 2007-2009
Designed front-end ESPN.com portals including horseback racing, bullfighting, bullriding, lacrosse and espnrise.com.
WEB DESIGNER
RISE Magazine | 2006-2007
Designed, developed and implemented risemag.com, a high school sports social networking site that was later acquired by ESPN.
JR DESIGNER
Velocity Advertising | Summer 2004
Created and implemented advertising campaigns for corporate clients entailing original print design layout and copywriting.
Honors
FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
2010
Parsons Summer Boot Camp Web instructor for incoming Parsons MFA Design & Technology candidates.
FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
2010
Open Society Institute Public Health Program and Parsons The New School for Design Fellowships in Information Design.
GRADUATE DEAN’S SCHOLARSHIP
2009
High Academic Standing by Parsons, The New School for Design.
UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
2009
High Academic Standing by Parsons, The New School for Design.
Education
MFA IN DESIGN
Parsons, The New School for Design | 09/09 – 05/11
Design & Technology
BS IN COMMUNICATION
Boston University | 05/2005
Concentration in Advertising
Minor in History
Volunteer Work
Tutored 5th grade students at Tobin Elementary School in Mission Hill.
Coached basketball at Brookline High School Recreation Department.
Overnight volunteer at Brooklyn Heights Homeless Shelter.
For Pleasure
bike rides that make my knees pop, learning how to pronounce krav maga, making sweet gif animations
Past Employers
The New York Times, ESPN, Funny Garbage, Parsons
Skills
Flash, Flex, Eclipse, Photoshop, Illustrator, Xcode, Omnigraffle, WordPress, Processing, Google App Inventor, Arduino, openFrameworks
JavaScript, jQuery, Java, XML, HTML5/CSS3, AJAX, PHP/mySQL, Objective C, C++
Downloadable Resume
Download a PDF version of my resume here.
Contact
Email me at aldruck [at] gmail.com.
