Jay Patrikios
1530 Gough St Apt #705 San Francisco, CA 94109
w: www.patrikios.org | e: jay (AT) patrikios (DOT) org | c: 415/385-2666

SUMMARY
Over eight years' experience in visual and user interface design, information architecture, icon-making and front-end development for high-traffic Web sites. Focus on Web-based applications. Comfortable working within established design standards as well as starting with a clean slate. Survivor of nine rounds of layoffs; good guy to have around.

EXPERIENCE
Lycos, Inc. | San Francisco, CA 1997 - Present | Senior UI Designer
* Recently completed the Wired News rearchitecture/redesign. Streamlined existing design, improved readability and boosted cross-promotion of stories. (Launching mid-November.)
* Created schematics for the new Wired News content management system. Goals of cost savings, increased usability and elimination of superfluous functionality. Addition by subtraction.
* Responsible for information architecture, UI design and icons on the Tripod Blog Builder, which was chosen as PC World's Editor's Choice for blog tools and was a MITX (Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange) Finalist. Nearly 1,000,000 blogs created, including my mom's.
* Created schematics, wireframe documents and mockups for the back and front-end interfaces of the Tripod Photo Album Builder. The Builder allows users to organize and publish their photos from one place and update their albums from camera-enabled cell phones.
* Using CSS, coded the latest version of Angelfire, which receives 13 million page views per month.
* Designed site-specific shopping cart components for subscription services to be consistent within the transaction system for sites within Lycos, including: Tripod, Lycos Domains, Angelfire and HTMLGear. Effectively added a second revenue stream.

PERSONAL PROJECTS
* Co-creator of FutureMe.org, a site which allows people to send an email to themselves in the future. More than 100,000 letters written to future-selves around the globe! Site chosen by ARS Electronica for their FutureLab, Sept 2004. Yahoo! Pick of the Day, Sept 2003.
* Freelance clients include: Ameritrade, Advance Nanotech, Kaiser-Permanente
* Maintain a portfolio at patrikios.org
* Writer of a blog at scatterboy.com for the past 5+ years
* Small drawings at unlovely.com

EDUCATION
* Pratt Institute 1992-96 | Brooklyn, NY | Received BFA, graduated with honors
* CCSF 2005 | Continuing education classes in economics

TOOLS & SKILLS
* Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, BBEdit. HTML, CSS.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.

WHEN NOT AT THE COMPUTER I AM AN...
* Avid runner, cyclist and swimmer; furniture designer and builder.

FUN EXTRA STATS & STUFF
* Myers-Briggs: ENTJ
* Half-Marathon PR: 1:35.00
* Sign: Virgo

Professional and personal recommendations available upon request.