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Ken Skistimas

Summary

With over 13 years of experience in the field of interactive design including experience working as a designer at startups, small companies, publicly traded companies as well as freelance, Ken offers a cross-section of skills that is hard to come by today. His special areas of expertise include graphic design, user interface design, usability, typography, color theory and interface architecture. In addition he has an understanding of technical issues not often considered by most visually-oriented designers.


Employment History

november 2008 to present Rhapsody America, San Francisco, CA
Senior User Experience Designer august 2007 to august 2008 eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA
Lead Visual Designer august 2005 to august 2007 Metaweb Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Lead Visual Designer november 2001 to august 2005 Applied Minds, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Designer january 2001 to present Ken Skistimas Design, Concord, CA
Principal june 2000 to December 2000 Visigy, San Francisco, CA
Senior Web Designer march 1999 to june 2000 icPlanet.com, San Rafael, CA
Graphic Designer

Education

1993 to 1997 University of North Texas

Distinctions

may 2004 US Patent 20050268250
Apparatus and method for selecting actions for visually associated files and applications.

august 2003 US Patent 20050049986
Visual representation tool for structured arguments.

References available upon request.