Max Burnside, Developer in Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Max Burnside

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Audio Production Developer

Location
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
May 8, 2015

Max is an experienced designer, illustrator, animator, and front-end web developer with experience in startups and B2B companies. His clients include Facebook, Nike, RocNation, and John Frieda. He is a skilled developer and a capable communicator, and prides himself on employing his high standards for quality in design to bring his clients' visions to life.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Adobe Illustrator

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed and created is a custom icon font library.

Work Experience

Founder

2016 - PRESENT
AnchorPint
  • Designed branding for AnchorPint.
  • Created video tutorials.
  • Created design resources.
  • Implemented an eCommerce solution.
  • Developed a responsive site using SASS.
Technologies: Kirby, SVG, Sass, Haml

Interaction Designer/Front-End Developer

2013 - PRESENT
Freelance
  • Created a custom animation series for a community library.
  • Created a brand for a music website that is part of Hype Machine.
  • Taught an online course on the topics of icon creation, illustration, and animation.
  • Created a promotional video for a Costa Rican resort.
  • Illustrated mechanical timepieces for an independent watch company.
  • Created marketing materials for Nike Sports camps.
Technologies: Web, Videos, Design

Lead Interaction Designer

2015 - 2016
Viewabill
  • Designed and developed the front-end for a web app for lawyer billing company Aleter.
  • Redesigned brand identity.
  • Created custom illustrations for the marketing site.
  • Optimized page load speed and compression of assets.
  • Assisted company leaders during acquisition process in providing brand materials for future iteration of the company.
Technologies: CSS, Sass, Haml, HTML, Adobe CC, SVG

Interaction Designer

2014 - 2015
LISNR
  • Helped re-brand the company with a new color palette, logo, font-face, and style guide.
  • Wrote, directed, narrated, and edited a promotional video for a global financial institution.
  • Designed a mobile application for a world-renowned fashion brand.
  • Converted the company to using SVG for all websites' visual assets to ensure speed and scalability for mobile viewers.
  • Created a suite of vector illustrations, infographics, one-pagers, and press materials.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Infographics, Illustration, UX Design, UI Design

Animations

A collection of animations I've created for various clients/projects.

AnchorPint

AnchorPint is an ongoing project of mine where I showcase design tutorials, videos and resources. I both designed and developed the entire site as well as provided all content on the site.

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Apple Keynote, Adobe CC, TextWrangler, TextMate, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Sketch, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe After Effects

Other

User Interface (UI), Design, Writing & Editing, Microsoft 365, SVG, Icon Design, Typography, Illustration, Audio Production, Audio Processing, Video Editing, Data Visualization, Videos, Animation, Infographics, Kirby

Languages

CSS, HTML, Haml, Sass, JavaScript

Frameworks

Bootstrap 3

Paradigms

UX Design, Visual Design, Motion Design, UI Design

Industry Expertise

Web Design

Libraries/APIs

jQuery

Platforms

Web

2010 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Technical Writing

Miami University - Ohio

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