Nick Volkert is a highly qualified expert, working in E*Trade on the position of User Experience Designer from 2020. Nick Volkert has earned professional experience in more than 44 positions at different companies. Nick Volkert went to the Northwestern University and got education from 2017 to 2018. Chicago, Illinois is the city, where the professional was lastly known to settle. The person's email address and phone number can be accessed through Connexy on demand.
Name variants:
Dominic Volkert,
Nicholas Volkert
Contact Information
Last Update
Jun 30, 2022
Email
ni**@nickvolkert.com
Location
Chicago, IL
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Work History
User Experience and User Interface and Visual Designer
5101 Darmstadt Rd, Hillside, IL 60162
from Dec 2017
Front End Web Designer
Chicago, IL
Created a multi-page website design for the Chicago marketing firm that included navigation, photo selection and color choice options for the site design for the client to choose from that w...
Sep 2017 — Sep 2017
Illustrator
2400 Chestnut Ave, Glenview, IL 60026
Created a map of the Glenview Park District's "Wagner Farm" property that was created with traditional pen and ink illustration, and colorized in Photoshop via a cintiq. The project was in c...
May 2017 — Aug 2017
Illustrator
Des Plaines, IL
Created a full color, fully vector map for the Des Plaines Park District's "Mystic Waters" waterpark property for their signage, brochure, website and social media usage.
May 2017 — Aug 2017
Freelance Illustrator
Knoxville, TN
Illustrated two black and white spreads that served as an adult coloring book for their "Emerge" event magazine that was distributed at their event in Austin, TX. The illustrations paid homa...
May 2017 — Jun 2017
Freelance Designer
13875 west Boulton Blvd, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Designed eCommerce User Interface solutions that included full site refreshes, navigation updates and product view redesigns. Authored icons, icon libraries, print design and production piec...
Mar 2017 — Jun 2017
Freelance Digital Designer
9525 Bryn Mawr Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018
Providing site maps and wireframes on project launches, iterative user interface design explorations, clickable prototypes, icon design, style guides and working files in collaboration with ...
Apr 2016 — Jan 2017
Live Muralist
90 Myrtle Ave, Plainfield, NJ 07060
Worked with Spec Furniture to create a table top mural to celebrate their 25th year in business. The mural was drawn live during their opening at NeoCon at the Merchandise Mart.
Mar 2016 — Jun 2016
Designer
1361 north Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Design production creating Real Estate flyers with updated maps, copy, and text.
Mar 2016 — Apr 2016
Illustrator
12595 southwest 137Th Ave SUITE 206, Miami, FL 33186
Illustrated various instructional graphics on best use of hospital related products to fit into the provided branding colors and look and feel.
Jan 2016 — Jan 2016
Cover Illustrator
Created cover illustration for the Spring 2016 issue.
Worked with the eMagazine on sketches, ideas and refinements to finally land on final cover.
Dec 2015 — Jan 2016
Infographics Designer
123 north Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606
Collaborated with designers, copywriters and Art Directors to update educational infographics and create new graphics for upcoming campaigns.
Nov 2015 — Nov 2015
User Experience Designer and Illustrator
100 Grainger Pkwy, Lake Forest, IL 60044
Working as a full-time interface designer, illustrator, and icon designer within the Grainger UX team.
Single point of contact for the ongoing visual attribute project: creating hundreds o...
Dec 2012 — Nov 2015
Front End Developer
3333 Beverly Rd, Hoffman Estates, IL 60179
May 2011 — Dec 2012
Front End Developer
650 Dundee Rd SUITE 250, Northbrook, IL 60062
Was an ongoing resource for various small FE Development projects: mainly splash pages and microsites.
Dec 2010 — Mar 2011
Front End Developer and Web Master
Refurbished the client’s Flash based portfolio into a modern site using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Helped the company get into social media by coding their tumblr blog to work seamlessly in l...
Nov 2010 — Mar 2011
Front End Developer and Web Master
125 south Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606
Working with marketing to create a site based on their current print collateral.
Editing and fixing design bugs in multiple browsers using CSS/HTML.
Creating jQuery based pop-up forms tha...
Nov 2010 — Feb 2011
Front End Developer
222 north La Salle St SUITE 1500, Chicago, IL 60601
Creating templates of photoshop based designs in CSS and HTML to pass off to developers.
Working with developers to solve cross browser issues with site designs in Firefox, IE6, 7, and 8, ...
Mar 2010 — Oct 2010
Front End Developer and Designer
Hand Coding CSS and HTML.
Slicing graphics and logos for pages in Photoshop.
Building web templates for developers to plug back end code.
Creating Illustrations for flash banner ads.
Aug 2009 — Mar 2010
Production Artists and Illustrator
Designed various ads and signage for investment/banking clients.
Made edits/design revisions to marketing pieces within Photoshop, InDesign, and Quark.
Created spot illustration for marke...
Mar 2009 — Apr 2009
Front End Developer
171 north Aberdeen St SUITE 400, Chicago, IL 60607
Sliced Photoshop images for the web sites/pages/templates.
Developed cross-browser compliant CSS/HTML code (especially for Internet Explorer 5) within YUI.
Jan 2009 — Mar 2009
Website Administrator
Created and managed a website for student artists who attend art school as a place to showcase their current studio work.
Writing a weekly blog that links to current work on the net to ins...
Nov 2006 — Feb 2009
Senior Powerpoint Designer
222 west Merchandise Mart Plz SUITE 1800, Chicago, IL 60654
Refining past powerpoints to fresher more readable design.
Creating powerpoint animations and adding outside vendor flash animations to decks.
Designing decks to accommodate brand guideli...
Sep 2008 — Jan 2009
Freelance Illustrator
Illustrated cover and developed interior illustrations for internal magazine Aon publishes.
2009 — 2009
Front End Developer and Interactive Designer
100 Schelter Rd, Lincolnshire, IL 60069
Creating static web pages and ads in the quill e-commerce site.
Creating page ads and banner ads for the site.
Building and maintaining mini sites within the Quill.com framework.
Convert...
Jun 2008 — Sep 2008
Illustrator
7401 south Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Writing and Illstrating 60 original cartoons for the Dubble Bubble™ bubble gum brand for use in North America/Southern Canada.
Jun 2008 — Aug 2008
Front End Developer
20 south Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606
Providing fixes and tweaks to bugs in the cmegroup.com website.
Producing web pages off of a designer's PSD file using HTML and CSS.
Building websites and pages using CSS and HTML.
Worke...
Feb 2008 — Jun 2008
Illustrator
111 north Canal St SUITE 850, Chicago, IL 60606
Illustrated and designed a couple of fun activity sheets for the kids to color when they visit their local Potbelly's.
May 2008 — May 2008
Freelance Designer
820 north Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Designed posters and postercards for the intercampus mailings posting as well as to the University's Alumni.
Produced an early draft of the 2008 graduate catalog in InDesign.
Mar 2008 — Apr 2008
Packaging Production Artist
1000 Corporate Grove Dr, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Created packaging for Washburn's line of Disney® guitars and accessories based on style guide and pre-existing art created by Disney®.
Accounts included Hannah Montana®, Camp Rock®, Cheeta...
Feb 2008 — Mar 2008
Mock Up Artist
Designed mock-up websites for the client to present to their medication vendors to show how their ads would look in their current site design.
Feb 2008 — Mar 2008
Freelance Production Artist
Resized and redesigned the agency's printed porfolio booklet, as well as created ads and another booklet proposals for their client.
Feb 2008 — Feb 2008
Web Production Designer
222 Merchandise Mart Plz SUITE 470, Chicago, IL 60654
Maintained and edited content for The Merchandise Mart's show and event websites.
Designed websites to promote shows and events at the Mart.
Designed web ads, and banner ads to promote up...
Aug 2007 — Feb 2008
Catalog Designer
966 Corporate Blvd SUITE 150, Aurora, IL 60502
Put final design touches on a sale catalog for Asics various displays produced and designed by the Carlson Group.
Aug 2007 — Sep 2007
Freelance Web Production Artist
85 Broad St, New York, NY 10004
Website Production artist, helping put the final touches on a marketing campain mini-site called "Banco Loves Dreams."
Redesigned and refreshed Banco's credit card pages.
Designed a maile...
Mar 2007 — Aug 2007
Production Artist
111 Adell Pl, Elmhurst, IL 60126
Production artist, helping to put final touches on ads, booklets, and mailers.
Created mock-ups and presentations of final design work for presentation to their clients.
Aug 2007 — Aug 2007
Cartoonist
Created an original daily cartoon strip titled "Gone Clean Wholesome Fun" for the paper five days a week.
Created an original humor cartoon for the paper’s entertainment section once a wee...
Feb 2001 — Dec 2006
Page Designer
Designed daily pages in Quark and then InDesign.
Designed Entertainment section.
Created cover designs for page one.
Created cover designs for Entertainment sections.
Created page one d...
Apr 2005 — Dec 2006
Graphics Editor
Established graphics department for the paper to improve the look and create a uniqueness exclusive to the Star.
Worked as a liason between section editors and staff of artists coordinatin...
Jun 2006 — Dec 2006
Sign Apprentice
Designed various small business signs, vehicle magnetics, and vehicle lettering designs.
Cut and applied vinyl graphics.
Learned the day to day workings of a small business including: bil...
Jun 2002 — Aug 2005
Graphic Artist
Washington
Designed tee shirts; prepared for screen printing.
Designed promotional materials (magnets, mouse pads, mugs, etc.) for area businesses.
Worked with customers to get best possible design ...
Jun 2003 — Jan 2004
Graphic Artist
1400 east Inman Pkwy, Beloit, WI 53511
Created promotional coloring books and point of purchase displays for the company marketing department.
Brainstormed in meetings ideas for current and future projects, executed prototype i...
Aug 2002 — Jan 2003
Freelance User Experience User Interface Visual Designer and Illustrator
Elk Grove Village, IL
Working with clients and businesses to create solutions for User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Iconography and illustrations in vector and traditional media for projects within e...
from May 2002
Education
2017 — 2018
2004 — 2006
1998 — 2002
Occupations
Architect
Designer
Skills
Illustration
Graphic Design
Illustrator
Indesign
Logo Design
Photoshop
Web Design
Graphics
Art
Quarkxpress
Layout
Css
Adobe Creative Suite
User Experience
Posters
Html
Creative Direction
Editing
Cascading Style Sheets
Advertising
Adobe Illustrator
Typography
Mac
Flash
Art Direction
Blogging
Brochures
Digital Illustration
Direct Mail
Dreamweaver
Animation
Adobe Acrobat
Editorial
Adobe Photoshop
Fe Development
Packaging
Flash Animation
Fine Art
Catalogs
Visual Communication
Screen Printing
Storyboarding
Invision
Sketch App