Jarques Pretorius

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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

- Steve Jobs

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Motivated web developer specializing in User Interface and Experience Design with skills in front and back-end development


Education


June 2005 - March 2009:

The Art Institute of California - San Francisco
Bachelor of Science in Web Design and Interactive Media


Work Experience


April 2008 - Present:

Lead Front-End Designer/Developer at Academia.edu, San Francisco, CA

Designed a complete Flash user interface for a visual map of academic institutions and their programs, staff and students

Increased visitor-to-user conversion through effective user-flow

January 2003 - February 2004:

Sales Associate at Weltevreden Pharmacy, Johannesburg, SA

Assisted customers with sales, questions and prescription


Skills and Technological Proficiency


3 Years: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS
2 Years: Flash, After Effects, TextMate, JavaScript, XML, PHP, SQL
1 Year: Flex Builder, Final Cut Studio, Ruby on Rails, XCode, iPhone SDK