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		<title>Bank of America Military Banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my tenure at Bank of America I worked on many projects such as the homepage, the online banking mortgage interface, conceptual work for re-imaging the entire site and online banking as well as the redesign for the Military Bank.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscook.com&amp;blog=7547253&amp;post=19&amp;subd=marcuscook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>During my tenure at Bank of America I worked on many projects such as the homepage, the online banking mortgage interface, conceptual work for re-imaging the entire site and online banking as well as the redesign for the Military Bank.</p>
<p>Originally a completely independent subsidiary, the Military Bank was brought into the larger organization. We strategized a plan to transition the existing customers over with as little interruption to their lives as possible.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-21 alignleft" title="Wireframe" src="http://marcuscook.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bofa_mb_wf.jpg?w=710" alt="Wireframe"   />I led the design team on the conceptual phase of the project and worked closely with the line-of-business to find out who our customers where, what were their concerns and crafted a solution that fit within the project constraints. I provided both conceptual and detailed wireframes and user-stories. I acted as a champion for the user’s experience on this project and received internal rewards and recognition for my efforts.</p>
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		<title>Microsoft Windows Marketplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the launch of Vista, Microsoft wanted a complete redesign of windowsmarketplace.com to make it a central hub for people to shop for computer hardware and software. Working with Modem Media, I helped to design many functions of this ecommerce website.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscook.com&amp;blog=7547253&amp;post=26&amp;subd=marcuscook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>With the launch of Vista, Microsoft wanted a complete redesign of windowsmarketplace.com to make it a central hub for people to shop for computer hardware and software. Working with Modem Media, I helped to design many functions of this ecommerce website.</p>
<p>I worked on several sections of the site including the homepage, a user-ratings system, filterable search results, integration of the Microsoft Digital Locker and product comparison functionality. I created wireframes and co-wrote the functional specifications document for the UI to assist the developers build the site.</p>
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		<title>Thomas Taylor, CMT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be really gratifying to take a break from working large corporate jobs on occasion and do something on a much smaller scale. For Thomas Taylor, CMT, I designed his website, business cards, a brochure and gift certificates. He<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscook.com&amp;blog=7547253&amp;post=100&amp;subd=marcuscook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>It can be really gratifying to take a break from working large corporate jobs on occasion and do something on a much smaller scale. For Thomas Taylor, CMT, I designed his website, business cards, a brochure and gift certificates.</p>
<p>He asked me to design him a site that lets potential clients know all the ways that he is available to help them.  I also shot all the photography and created the illustrations used throughout the pieces.</p>
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		<title>Amdocs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Amdocs, we produced CRM software for telecommunications companies. For two release cycles, I helped develop the product functionality specifications, wrote use-cases, put those use-cases into relationship diagrams to categorize like functions then designed functional screens and developed task flows.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcuscook.com&amp;blog=7547253&amp;post=31&amp;subd=marcuscook&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>At Amdocs, we produced CRM software for telecommunications companies. For two release cycles, I helped develop the product functionality specifications, wrote use-cases, put those use-cases into relationship diagrams to categorize like functions then designed functional screens and developed task flows. Then put it all together in detailed design documents.</p>
<p><img src="http://marcuscook.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/amdocs_taskflow.gif?w=710" alt="Taskflow" title="amdocs_taskflow"   class="alignnone size-full wp-image-503" /></p>
<p>I designed icons and created the skin for the UI of this web application. I also wrote the style guide for a suite of applications. While there, I was a part of creating an in-house usability team, performed heuristic evaluations, created user surveys and helped build a usability lab.</p>
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