I like to be creative and I like to code. I mix them together to design & build amazing mobile apps.
My 16+ years working online includes: 9 years of mobile design / development, 9 years as owner / designer at Squad, 4 years as owner / director / designer / developer at Glue, 1 year on a Ruby certificate and 1 year on an iOS certificate, both at University of Washington.
More at http://JordanDobson.com
Specialties: Mobile Design & Development, Motion, iOS, CSS3, HTML5, Animation, UX, Interface Design, Client Side Engineering, Motion Graphics, Objective-C, Swift, Ruby, JavaScript
App & Front End Developer / Designer / Animator @ Focused on mobile design and development.
My clients, teams and projects include:
• Microsoft
• Groupon
• MontageJS / Montage Studio
• Expedia
• Xbox
• T-Mobile
• Zapd
• Bath & Bodyworks
• Bobsled
• projekt202
• Banyan Branch
• Workamajig
• Sencha Touch
• Jquery Mobile
• Pinch / Zoom
• Jive
• Zenprise
• Moboom
• Bob Books
• Remitly.com
• Push.io
• Radius
• Seattle.js
• The Superformula
• Loyola College
• Explore.fm
• GroupToDo
I've presented, lead teams, designed, tested and built mobile apps, web and native, for PhoneGap, iOS, Android Webkit 2.x+, Firefox Mobile, Chrome Mobile, Opera Mobile & Mini, WebOS, Windows Phone 7 and 7.5, Blackberry 6 & 7, and many more. From May 2010 to Present (5 years 8 months) Owner / Designer / Creative Director @ Creative Design & Development since 2002.
Squad is Branding + Web + Design + Print + Motion.
**Squad Closed December 2010** From January 2002 to December 2010 (9 years) Owner / Product Designer / Developer @ Glue was a mobile focused product designed & developed under Squad, Inc used by over 20,000 artists and musicians. From April 2005 to June 2010 (5 years 3 months) Owner / Designer / Creative Director @ A full service e-commerce platform designed and developed by Squad, Inc serving hundreds of artists and musicians. From June 2001 to June 2010 (9 years 1 month) Designer / Owner @ My first startup which was focused on providing cutting edge concepts for artists and labels in the music industry.
Vector Squad's varied services were eventually split up to create Squad, Glue and MerchSquad. From January 2001 to January 2002 (1 year 1 month) Designer / Animator / Developer @ At this small three person startup, I created flash sites from concept to completion. Many of the projects were very experimental and included liberal amounts of animation sequences.
This is the job that taught me how to run a business and pushed me to start my future business ventures. From October 2000 to May 2001 (8 months) Junior Designer / Developer @ This position started as an internship through Bellevue Community College where I was able to use many of the skills I learned from my Multimedia Design degree. After my internship and graduation PhotoTrust hired me to continue the work I started.
I created many mini sites based around their main photography site using flash, HTML and Javascript. From August 1999 to October 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Certificate, Mac & iOS Application Development, 98.75% @ University of Washington From 2014 to 2015 Certificate, Ruby Programming @ University of Washington From 2008 to 2009 Associate, Multimedia Design @ Bellevue Community College From 1998 to 2000 Media Design & Photography @ Eastlake High School From 1996 to 1997 Design, Video & Print @ Penn High School From 1993 to 1996 Jordan Dobson is skilled in: User Interface Design, Mobile Applications, CSS, User Experience, HTML 5, Objective-C, Swift, Mobile Design, JavaScript, CSS3, Animation, Front-end, Flash, Web Development, HTML
Websites:
http://JordanDobson.com