Richard Belotte

The Learning Company, San Jose, CA. The Learning Company at the time was the number one “edu-tainment” software developer in the world at the time. While there I got to cut my teeth on many different things, from ink and paint in the animation department, to lip synching, to eventually being lead in their localisation department. While I was there, they had me teach my technique to the other designers because of the quality and efficiency. I even managed to make a month long deadline in less than 24 hours. Adobe, San Jose, CA. While at Adobe I got to work with a very small, but great team. We were working on a kiosk project for Kodak. eBay, Santa Clara, CA. As one of the first two designers at eBay… I had the opportunity to help build the brand that it is now. I was instrumental in every thing from page design to designing their most popular chochki give aways. While I was at Epylon, I was the sole designer for this startup. First order was to redesign the site to make it more “user friendly”. I took care of every thing from daily “graphical” maintenance to handling all printed marketing materials as well. Epylon, Francisco, CA. The Sacramento Bee, Sacramento, CA. At the Sacramento Bee I was part of the digital advertising platform. I designed, animated, and developed on line advertising materials. LSF was a small online advertising agency. While there, I created microsite and email templates, etc. LSF, South San Francisco, CA. Sanrio was a great place to work at. I got to create downloadable content for this international loved character. I also got to design and maintain the home page for Sanrio North America, and curate the online store front. Sanrio, South San Francisco, CA. Aeria Games was a small startup online gaming site (MMORPG). I got to wear many hats while I was there, I created every thing from in game elements (the most downloaded skin for their racing game), video and audio editing, print and online advertising materials and of course web pages and portals. Aeria Games, Santa Clara, CA. Chase Cranialfacial Centre was a on going project that I got to concept, design develop, and maintain for a client of mine. Chase Cranialfacial Centre, Santa Rosa, CA. OnLive, Cupertino, CA. OnLive was a freelance gig I got to do. I was asked to develop the dynamic streaming video player for the home page. Cisco / Envision Media was also a freelance gig very similar to OnLive. I was asked to create a micro site along with a dynamic, streaming video player. Cisco / Envision Media, Santa Cruze, CA. Asian Health Service, Oakland, CA. This was a proton project. Based on the requirements discovery, I concepted, wireframe, mapped, created all graphics and started and managed the development of the entire site. What made this interesting was that it had to serve a non English speaking clientele. At the same time it had to be elegant and user friendly enough to be the main resource for soliciting donations. While at Electronic Arts I was part of the POGO division. They had a small two man design team tasked with the graphics creation as well as re-engineering the games to change user play. Electronic Arts, Redwood Shores, CA. At RockYou I designed and produced in game UI / UX elements. Rockyou, Redwood City, CA. While I was at Symantec I got to do many things including research and guidance on their  entry into the world of mobile applications, as well as video editing and of course plenty of wire framing. Symantec, Mountainview, CA. I developed UX and UI concepts for a mobile messaging application, simple wire framing as well as produced UX and UI concepts and simple wire framing for a web portal. Verizon, Santa Clara, CA. Pinc Solutions is an enterprise cloud based SaSS for “yard management”. They had a working skeleton of a beat application in place. What I helped do for them was concept a brand new userflow and interface for their various application lines. This included interacting with clients onsite to see how the applications functioned “in the Wild”. There was also researching different CSS / JS frameworks (at the time there were a lot with different pros and cons), suggesting and finally implementing a solution for them. In one instance I was to concept, develop and implement (including SVG graphics) a completely new interface for one particularly troubling application. My solution significantly reduced errors. inc Solutions, Alameda, CA. Marketron, San Francisco, CA. Marketron is an enterprise cloud based SaSS, for the “terrestrial broadcast” industry. They had a basic beta version of a suite of applications. In addition to developing new user paths I worked very closely with the engineers to devise UX solutions. This also involved a lot of research on different concepts. Solano is an enterprise cloud based SaSS. The Solano application is used for “continuous integration testing”. At Solano, I researched and implemented new query plugins (such as scroll-spy) for the website. In addition to that I re-designed and coded sections of the site. In regards to the application itself, I redesigned input and feedback elements and coded front end aspects. Solano Labs, San Ffrancisco, CA. Spatula has been a very fun project to work on. It’s a small start up with a great solution for “on demand job dispatching and tracking”. I got to do a lot for them. I coded some of the front end elements, helped design and codify UI elements and a “hierarchy” for their use, concept some application features, work out user flows, UX / UI elements, a lot of wire framing and more. I also helped re-design the mobile application from the ground up. In addition to all that I got to mentor some of the more junior staff. I really enjoyed that! Spatula, Perth, W.A. Tikforce is an enterprise start-up in the "compliance" sector. While I was there I was not only the UI designer, UX, designer, front-end coder, I also functioned as the art director. While I was there, I was in charge of not only re-designing the corporate site, but developing the look and feel of the site and external office materials. In conjunction with the corporate site redesign, I was tasked with researching and implementing various javascript plugins. The last project was coming up with an interface concept and design. Tickforce, Perth, W.A. Bankwest, Perth, W.A. Bankwest is one of the top 10 banks in Australia and the only one headquartered in the west. During my time there I worked closely with BAs, engineers, and others involved with the various projects. In addition to user flows and wireframing, I also did feature conception, user research / user testing.