Kyle Mooney - Creative

I am creative, working the web to make it better, I am a shark guru & I am all for positive energy!

Life

Vision Tech Team

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Goal:

If you build it, they will want a glass of milk

Process:

Vision Tech Team was amazing. A young upstart company with some big clients. It was a very quick paced environment and I got to work on some incredible projects with some top talent in the industry, with two very exceptional Entrepreneurs at the helm.

Mainly I was a creative manager helping both the Developers and Designers build out pages, giving them guidance on the look, quality and suggestions of Style Guides, hitting deadlines and such. I was not as good a Project Manager as I think I was but I think I did ok. I worked mainly with wireframes or compositions first, from there it was instructions with the amazing designers and developers of Vision Tech Team. Samples below of the teams and my collaboration.

Vision Tech Team
Vision Tech Team
Vision Tech Team
Vision Tech Team

Designing a site when…

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Designing a portfolio when you have little time

The before

Just like that. Before I realized it I was out of a job. I realized right then the weight of what that means. How do I pay my mortgage? How do I tell my wife? The zinger came when I finally realized, oh crap! I don’t even have a site up!

I had relied on the fact that I was happy. I was content at my job and was damn good at it. Never did I think I would need to update my portfolio and or build a site let alone so quickly. Being me I had to remember some big key steps…

1) The biggest key is to stay flexible and positive.

This was all I could muster between the job applying, interviewing and doing tests for various companies.

OOOOH AHHHH …. pretty lame right? The problem I ran into was … what do I show?

Animation? Bootstrap? Parallax? straight HTML? Pictures of my dogs? What I knew was that I am a good coder/designer. That I needed to keep that in mind. Don’t lose sight of who you are and what you can do. I decided on things I was good at. One was designing. The other was chicken enchiladas.

2) Design it on paper first! 

I did about 1 – 2 hours of rough layouts and designs, really trying to plan out the look and feel of my website. What I wanted to show, how I wanted it to work, where it needed to be to compete for jobs out there.

I even went so far to create wireframes and a quick pdf guide to keep me on point

I knew I wanted to show responsiveness, every job I was applying for was really asking for and wondering how to showcase mobile-friendly websites to reach more customers.

3) The end or is it?

So where did I end up? I did find some freelance, and some contract work, keeping positive and letting people experience your energy was a big reason for these experiences. Also being grateful and humble helps appreciate what you have and whom you have.

But now I am back, back out in the world looking.At least this time I have a prettier page to assist in my search. Still not 100% complete but neither was the death star. #hanshotfirst.

and since I mentioned it before, pics of my dogs.

Thanks for reading!

– Kyle 

Zia Records Store Signs

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Goal:

Kid Tested, Mother approved. SIGNS

Process:

“Hey, I need a sign, “from God?” I said. Nope, just a book sign for Thunderbird.” – Michael

That’s pretty much how it would go. I created some compositions of signs, once approved I would lay out the design on either large plotted paper or newsprint before cutting on foam core, lot’s of hot glue, nails, staples, tears, blood, and more glue. Some are still up today, some are a fond memory of simpler times. I used to be a lot more sticky back then.

 
Zia Records
Zia Records
Zia Records
Zia Records
Zia Records