Resume – Dan Henrick
I am a developer / designer with over 20 years of digital experience. I have a passion for motion graphics and run a small animation studio based in Chicago. I’m looking for opportunities to design and create innovative digital experiences for both the web and for video.
You can view my UI / UX and front end work at danhenrick.com/portfolio
My motion design studio is catsuitstudios.com – phone: 773-865-3485
EMPLOYMENT
Animator / Motion Designer
MAY 2012 – PRESENT
Cat Suit Studios
Chicago, IL
• Co-founded Animation Company. Created, directed, and edited shorts in After Effects, Premiere Pro, Animate, Cinema4D, and Blender.
• Animated and directed several shorts for The AV Club, the Illinois Environmental Council, Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York, Funny or Die, and more.
UI/UX Designer / Front End Developer
JULY 2019 – NOV 2025
Dialysis Clinic Inc
Chicago, IL
• Designed brand standards and led the UI / UX Team to establish design best practices across applications. Designed app layouts for patients and staff in Adobe XD and Figma.
• Coding front end pages within applications in Angular, HTML, with the Material framework.
• Designed internal email alerts and digests for clinicians and medical staff.
• Designed and coding business-related external facing websites and marketing materials.
Front End Developer
APRIL 2018 – APRIL 2019
Allstate Insurance
Northbrook, IL
• Built web banners, microsites, and landing pages for Allstate’s marketing department.
• Designed and animated video screens for stadium displays using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.
• Used HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Greenstock.JS, Bootstrap, Adobe Creative Suite,
After Effects, Sketch, and some SASS.
• Troubleshooted web banners on multiple browsers and devices.
Senior Digital Art Director
JULY 2013 – MARCH 2018
RPM Advertising
Chicago, IL
• Designed and built Facebook games, web banners, promotional takeovers, videos, and full web sites for the casino, entertainment, and auto industry.
• Used Salesforce CRM, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Google Web Designer, WordPress, and Adobe Creative Suite. Designed sites using UI/UX best practices.
• Translated print campaigns into digital brand identities.
• Built email marketing campaigns for multiple clients in responsive designs.
Web Designer
OCTOBER 2007- MARCH 2012
Playboy Enterprises
Chicago, IL
• Designed and built daily features for Playboy’s paid subscription site.
• Built daily marketing pieces using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Created various JavaScript applets like age-gates and aggregators for various Playboy-related sites.
Web Designer
OCTOBER 2003-JULY 2006
Allstate Insurance
Northbrook, IL
• Built web sites and online press releases for Allstate Insurance’s internal and external web sites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash.
• Designed and programmed Allstate’s Crisis Management sites, including those in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
• Created Flash banner ads and interactive presentations and published the company-wide news portal.
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Angular, Blender, CSS, Figma, HTML5 / XML, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, PHP, WordPress, Facebook SDK, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe XD, Adobe Animate
EDUCATION
Bachelor of the Arts, Multimedia Major with Honors, 1999 – Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois