Don Charlton

don[at]doncharlton.com
412.SixFiveSeven.8308


Latest Essays

10/02/2008
Get Them Over the Funnel

09/05/2008
Do You Suffer from Clicknosis?

04/17/2008
Information Versus "Entertainment"

04/17/2008
The Gift and Curse of Empowering Users

03/12/2008
All Content Should Be Readable and Scannable

02/20/2008
Take Back The Meeting—Go to the Whiteboard

02/20/2008
Turning Emergency Resources into a Time Saver and Not a Time Suck

Resumé


Don E. Charlton
1206 Quail Roost
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
don[at]doncharlton.com
412-Six-Five-Seven-8308

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design
School of Design
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Rochester, New York
May 1999
3.4 GPA
Graduated with honors

Skills

Web site design
Interaction design
Marketing support
Information design
Advertising design
Interactive PDFs and PowerPoint shows
Software GUI and icons
Project management
Budget preparation
Proposal writing

 
Meeting facilitation
Headline writing
PHP/MySQL
Flash/Actionscript 2.0
HTML
CSS
Javascript
Usability testing
Market research
Press checks

Tools

Adobe Photoshop (Expert)
Adobe Illustrator (Expert)
Adobe Indesign (High)
Adobe Acrobat (Moderate)
Adobe Freehand (High)
Adobe Dreamweaver (Moderate)
Adobe Flash (Expert)

 
BBEdit (High)
TextMate (High)
FileMaker Pro (High)
Quark XPress (Expert)
Microsoft Office (Expert)
Mac OS (Expert)
Windows OS (High)

Experience

Director of Interactive Strategy, Senior Interactive Designer
Wall to Wall Studios Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ~ April 2004 - present

Helping lead a small studio from having limited large scale, content-managed site experience to one of the region's premier interactive houses. Promoted to Senior Designer during first year at firm to lead the planning, design and oversight of development for award-winning Web sites, micro sites, Flash applications and other interactive presentations. Roles included site mapping, wireframing, detailed design development, site programming, workflow management, and business development. In addition to creative awards for the firm, solutions also garnered high profile attention and accolades for clients at their own industry awards/conventions. Promoted to Director of Interactive Strategy to lead comprehensive effort to grow the firm's interactive business by supporting sales force with tools, knowledge and strategies. Role also included strategic creative planning of major interactive projects in house, as well as proposal support, project scoping and other management duties.
Communications and Interaction Designer
Agnew Moyer Smith Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ~ June 1999 - April 2004

Primary focus was working on and managing projects that require both the blending of complex information into intuitive, user-friendly Web sites, interactive CD-Roms, and software interfaces. Wide range of additional projects including capabilities brochures, diagrams, catalogs, product literature, advertisements, survey sites, and presentations for clients such as Caterpillar, McDonald's, Steelcase, and Westinghouse.

Web Sites

Reel Marla ~ www.reelmarla.com
JoinSources ~ www.joinsources.com
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy ~ www.wpconline.org
Pitt Graduate School of Public Health ~ www.publichealth.pitt.edu
Institute for Integrative Nutrition ~ www.integrativenutrition.com
Giant Eagle Express ~ www.gianteagleexpress.com
Baldwin-Wallace College ~ www.bw.edu/bethat & www.bw.edu/actionplan
ACLU ~ www.doncharlton.com/aclu/
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh ~ www.carnegiemuseums.org
Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative ~ www.ptei.org
Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir ~ www.bccz.com
Carnegie Mellon Undergraduate Admission ~ www.cmu.edu/admission
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh ~ www.pittsburghkids.org
Silk Screen Asian-American Film Festival ~ www.silkscreenfestival.org
University Partnership of Pittsburgh ~ www.universitypartnership.com
Carnegie Mellon CS50 Celebration ~ cs50.cs.cmu.edu
MuseumSOS ~ www.museum-sos.org

Awards

Gold Award, 23rd Admissions Advertising Awards ~ Baldwin Wallace College
Best of 2007, Graphic Design USA ~ ACLU 2005 Interactive Annual Report
Site of Merit, Step Magazine ~ Baldwin Wallace College Be That
Gold Medal, 2006 CASE Circle of Excellence Awards ~ CM Admissions
Selection, 2006 Pittsburgh AIGA 100 ~ Carnegie Mellon Admissions
Judges Choice, 2005 Pittsburgh AIGA 100 ~ Children's Museum
Award of Excellence, 2005 Pittsburgh AIGA 100 ~ Children's Museum
Gold Award, 2005 Pittsburgh ADDY's ~ Children's Museum
Best of the Web, 2005 Forbes Online ~ Children's Museum
Gold Award, 2005 MUSE Awards ~ Children's Museum