Ryan Hanau’s Résumé
Phone & Fax: 646-213-0217
E-mail: ryan@chromadesign.com
Download Résumé Word File (132k)Currently available for a full-time or consulting job, on/off-site work. Willing to relocate. US citizen. Résumé updated September 2008.
Overview
Ryan Hanau is an award-winning Design Visionary with 14 years of professional experience. His specialties include Online Marketing and Strategy, User Experience Design, Information Architecture, and Usability. Since 1998 he has been the President and Creative Director of Chroma Design, an independent consultancy in New York, NY.
Recent projects include:
- LG
- National Geographic Channel
- New York Times
- Cosmopolitan
- Glamour
- Fast Company
- Sanofi Pasteur: Adacel, Vaccine Place, etc.
- Sanofi Aventis: AFMD, Eloxatin, etc.
- Boehringer Ingelheim: Aggrenox, Viramune, Spiriva, etc.
- Guns & Ammo
- Guideposts Magazine
- Columbia University
Prior to forming Chroma Design, Mr. Hanau in 1997 received a prestigious “Artist-In-Residency” invitation from the French Government's Cultural Ministry at the premiere film and new media school in France, Studio Le Fresnoy National des Arts Contemporains. From 1995 to 1997 he was a User Interface Designer with the Los Angles Times where he designed one of the first commercial news web sites.
He has also taught User Interface Design at several universities including the renowned Art Center in Pasadena, CA where he holds a Master’s degree.
Professional Experience
10-98 to Present, President
Chroma Design, NY, NY
Founded a well-respected design studio that later became a consultancy. Manage large budget design projects adhering to challenging schedules and deadlines. Multi-task on a variety of simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment. Supervised a staff of 4 full-time employees and 4 contractors. Recruited, hired, and mentored less senior staff.
Successfully completed over 90 design projects. Create comprehensive functional specifications, information architecture, strategy documents, user personas, use cases, user interface designs, annotated wire frames and working (X)HTML Web pages. Conduct detailed heuristic reviews and multi-stage usability studies. Design new and enhanced functionality for complex software applications. Deliver comprehensive user interface designs, functional requirement documentation and specifications, usability reports and presentations.
10-00 to Present, Part-Time Usability Publishing Advisor
Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco, CA
Perform reviews and critiques of usability and user experience design manuscripts/proposals in progress. Contribute to the development of usability and user experience design theory. Work independently and as a member of a team. Advise a leading publishing company on which projects to approve. Assignments are on occasion and are performed in addition to working at Chroma Design.
6-01 to 12-03, Part-Time Instructor
SF State University, San Francisco, CA
Instructed Web design and programming courses. Average class size was 15 students. Taught students how to write (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript by hand and using Macromedia Dreamweaver. Helped students to understand programming essentials. Created exercises to test the student’s understanding. Assisted students to produce a working Web site of their own. Served as an integral component of the one of the premiere international multimedia schools. Modernized the program by creating comprehensive online versions for each of my classes. Met with students to provide individual feedback and guidance and served as a mentor to students.
4-98 to 10-98, Artist-In-Residence
Studio Le Fresnoy National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
Served as an Artist-in-Residence invited by the French Ministry for Cultural Exchange. Taught computer arts and pursued a personal, professional project, a 3D Human Anatomy project (www.anaticom.com).
6-96 to 4-98, Instructor
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Taught students in design theory and technology courses at this internationally prestigious design school. Students were taught to write HTML in BB Edit and by hand. Introduced students to the World Wide Web and the Internet. Classes were geared to promote creativity despite the Web’s limitations. Students learned design essentials such as history, form, color, value, line, rhythm, typography, and production techniques.
6-95 to 10-97, Interactive Designer
The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA
Designed an interactive version of the LA Times on the Prodigy Network, “TimesLink.” When the Web arrived, launched the first Los Angeles Times Web site (one of the first news Web sites in the world). Set the standard for the design of interactive, on-line news. Established the precedence for the design of user-friendly, online news. Demonstrated the commercial viability of the Web. Collaborated with fellow editors, designers, product managers, and engineers in an iterative design process. Produced graphics using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Equilibrium Debabelizer. Hand wrote HTML and JavaScript.
Awards
- 2008 Creativity Annual Awards
- Horizon Interactive Awards
- NetworkWorld’s “Blue Ribbon” Award
- Network Computing’s “Editor’s Choice” Award
- NetworkWorld’s “Best of the Test” Award
- Communication Arts Webpick of the Week
Education
9-96 to 4-98, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Masters of Fine Arts degree, MFA
Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.9
9-89 to 4-94, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland/San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, BFA
Magna Cum Laude, GPA 3.6
Professional Memberships
- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Bay Area Chapter on Computer-Human Interaction (BayCHI)
- Commonwealth Club
- Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- New York Computer Human Interaction (NYCHI)
- San Francisco Chapter SIGGraph
- Usability Professionals Association (UPA)
Technical Skills
Professional Expertise
Functional Analysis, Functional Specification, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Strategy, Task Modeling, Typography, Usability Analysis, Usability Methodologies, Usability Testing, User Centered Design, User Experience Design, User Flow Diagramming, Web Programming, and Wire Framing.
Operating Systems
Apple Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 95 and Unix (familiarity only).
Software
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Alias/Maya, BB-Edit, Fetch, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, OmniGraffle and QuarkXPress.
Computer Languages
CSS, DHTML, (X)HTML, and JavaScript
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