{"id":27,"date":"2012-11-23T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T21:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundetc.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2019-10-23T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:23:03","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/?page_id=27","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"Raym Barrett\" alt=\"Raym Barrett\" src=\"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/raym-profilephoto-s.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Raymond Barrett (Raym)<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"LinkedIn Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/raymbarr\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by our ability to emotionally move and delight others. With a lengthy career in music, graphic design, engineering, and UX, my focus on creation and reaction &#8212; whether through visual, musical, or written means &#8212; results in a deeper empathy and connection with my audience.<\/p>\n<p>I love how UX challenges me to find hidden treasures in my audience research and then solve the puzzles along the way as I try to delight my users and meet my business goals.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h4>Experience<\/h4>\n<p>I have 20+ years experience in UX, graphic design, and product management. At American Specialty Health &#8212; one of &#8220;Inc. Magazine&#8217;s&#8221; fastest growing businesses with over 42 million members covered, 60,000 clinical providers, and more than 9,000 fitness centers in their network &#8212; I work with the FitCrew Team updating their multiple fitness-related websites and apps.<br \/>\n<a title=\"UX Portfolio\" href=\"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/?page_id=2\"> UX Design Portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Albertsons Companies, the second largest supermarket chain in North America with 1.5 million unique users per month, I was responsible for the nationwide &#8220;just for U&#8221; mobile coupon app and the home-delivery shopping app across multiple brands (Safeway, Albertsons, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Vons, Pavilions) including information architecture, wireframing, customer flows, prototyping, and usability testing.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Safeway, I played many roles over 13 years at Live365 including Creative Director, Director of Product Management, Sr. User Experience Designer, and Director of Web Development. I worked on their listening and broadcasting mobile apps, desktop apps, website, TV apps, and B2B partner player designs including Hertz, Walmart, Progressive, State Farm, David Lynch Foundation, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, I founded Imagine Avenue, a multimedia design studio in Hollywood, California. During my eight years as creative director with Imagine Avenue, I worked with a wide variety of technologies in the areas of commercial printing; technical illustration; streaming audio\/video; and scoring\/sound for pictures, web development, and e-commerce.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Sound Portfolio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagineave.com\/sound\"> Sound Design Portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before Imagine Avenue, I was the lead singer, guitarist, and one of the primary songwriters for Charlemagne, a rock band out of Hollywood, California. I play multiple instruments and have been a recording engineer and\/or producer on various projects from the early 1980s to present. I also currently write and record background vocals for country-music projects for Country Rewind Records out of Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Country Rewind Records<br \/>\n<a title=\"Country Rewind Records\" href=\"http:\/\/countryrewind.com\/#sthash.CqCho8wp.dpbs\">http:\/\/countryrewind.com\/#sthash.CqCho8wp.dpbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charlemagne<br \/>\n<a title=\"Charlemagne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charlemagne\/dp\/B0021DKWY8\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Charlemagne\/dp\/B0021DKWY8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I studied drafting, technical illustration, and mechanical design technologies, and have extensive background in design and typography.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h4>Specialties<\/h4>\n<p>User Interface Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing, Visual Design, Mobile Software Design, User Experience Choreography, Project Management, Web Design, Songwriting, Audio Recording, and Sound Design.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Barrett (Raym) LinkedIn I&#8217;m fascinated by our ability to emotionally move and delight others. With a lengthy career in music, graphic design, engineering, and UX, my focus on creation and reaction &#8212; whether through visual, musical, or written means &#8212; results in a deeper empathy and connection with my audience. I love how UX [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagineave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}