Credit One Bank
Audio & Video
I’M JEREMY ORNELAS
Front end web designer, audio producer, video editor, computer hardware/software support, and an all around good guy.
Profile
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Phone: 702 -496 -6590
Email: jeremy.ornelas@gmail.com
Website: www.jeremyornelas.com
Skills
HTML • CSS • Javascript
Graphic Design • Photo Editing
UI • UX • Wireframing
Audio Production
Video Editing
About Me
I’ve been extremely fortunate to be employed by Credit One Bank since 1999. I was hired as a Help Desk technician, where I worked daily to ensure all desktops, servers and the employees that relied upon them, had the very best working environment they could have. It was during this time I first found my interest in graphic and web design. In 2007 I was transferred from the IT department to Marketing. I was initially brought over as a web designer, but upper management quickly caught on and tapped in to my knowledge of hardware and software, and before I knew it we were spinning up our own web servers, allowing us to code and immediately publish new landing pages and microsites almost instantly. Fast forward a few years and the amount of servers we manage has tripled as well as our workload and throughput.
I am proficient in, and use all of the below software daily, to complete a wide variety of tasks:
- Mac OS X (Preferred OS)
- Microsoft Windows 10
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- After Effects
- Audition
- Dreamweaver
- Fireworks
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Premiere
- VS Code (Preferred text editor)
- Sublime Text
- Logic Pro X
- Final Cut Pro
- Motion
- Invision
- Balsamiq
- Microsoft Office
- Navicat
- Transmit (Preferred FTP client)
- Bit Bucket, Git, & Source Tree
- Basecamp
- BrowserStack
- Litmus
- Jira
- Apache HTTP Servers
- Plesk Administration
- Spotify
In my spare time I love being creative with friends and family, playing and recording music, filming videos, playing video games, driving around the outdoors in my Jeep, camping, hiking and riding my bike. I'm a nerd at heart and love all things pop culture, such as music, movies, tv, books and comic books. I can often be found using lyrics or movie quotes as a form of communication, but I would never do that on my personal website.
Skills
Front End Web development
Front end web design and development is where I spend most of my time. I’ve been working as a front end designer, for Credit One Bank, for over 11 years. This encompasses prototyping, wireframing, all HTML, CSS, JS and jQuery for our production site, landing pages, microsites and email campaigns. I design all of our pages to be fully resposive, with a heavy push towards mobile-first. I am highly proficient in HTML5, CSS3, JS and jQuery which offer an endless array of creative output, and coupled with a good front end framework, such as Zurb’s Foundation or Bootstrap, the sky is the limit.
UI/UX Design
Sure, I get it. It's fun to rush straight to coding or designing in Photoshop, but before any of that happens it’s key to have a solid understand of the wants and needs of the customer. This is why it’s paramount to have a solid understanding of good user interface design coupled with a good user experience. Sure, I can make things fly in, rotate, and animate to my hearts content, but is that really what the customer wants to see? This is why it is crucial to think though, mock up, and wireframe out all your designs to ensure the customer journey works, good design is nothing if the intended user can’t understand how to use it.
audio and video
In this day and age a website will only get you so far. We are inundated, daily with audio and video, it’s literally everywhere you go. That’s why video, and its lessor thought of sidekick audio, play such a crucial role in web design and the overall online experience. Our customers and prospects demand a certain level of production value when they visit your site and this is just the beginning. I believe over the next few years, if you lack the ability to deliver clean, crisp, and FAST video content, your visitors will just move right along to the next site that does.
graphic design
I’m highly proficient with the Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve used Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and even Fireworks for as long as I can remember. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not jumping in and out of any or all of those apps to get a job done. Photo touch-ups, photo composites, manipulation, adding color to B&W images, creating high-fidelity mock-ups to demonstrate website design to peers and upper management, all of these traits are crucial and rely heavily on my foundation in graphic design.
Resume
education
2014 • CURRENT
Nevada State College
I am currently enrolled in their visual media degree program with an emphasis on interactive web with 11 classes left to go to finally get my bachelors degree. I had taken time off school, due to my career, and only recently started attending again.
1996 • 2000
Community College of Southern Nevada
I completed my general education courses at the Community College of Southern Nevada, or College of Souther Nevada (CSN), prior to starting my current career at Credit One Bank.
1992 • 1996
Chaparral High School
Ahh... high school, what a time. Not much to say about this except that I was in the accelerated program from my sophomore to senior year, a band/music geek and always got picked last for any kind of sporting activity.
Employment
2018 • CURRENT
Director of Web Development
Currently working on creating an online design system to strengthen the brand for ALL Credit One Bank web pages. This will allow us to more rapidly create & deploy web pages as we make the move towards componentizing our entire online presence. With an emphasis on reusable code, minification and accessibility; our team is now able to code faster and deliver more optimized & light-weight pages while getting them online quicker than ever before.
2016 • 2018
Senior Interactive Development Manager
I ran a team including myself and 4 front-end developers. We did everything from mapping out the customer journey through intensive data analysis, UI/UX design, prototyping, wireframing , maintaining (and policing) our corporate brand throughout ALL digital channels, server management and maintenance and believe it or not, we still found time to design and code all corporate web entities, including our main corporate website, our promotion landing pages, emails and microsites.
2007 • 2016
Interactive Development Manager
Daily tasks included graphic design, coding marketing email campaigns, landing pages, and microsites, audio voice over work, video editing using a variety of tools. I used wire framing tools daily to communicate ideas, then took those wireframes into Photoshop to create a richer more high-fidelity mock-up prior to getting buy off by the business to code and launch the pages and/or emails.
1999 • 2007
Help Desk Technician
Daily tasks including solving all hardware and software issues throughout the company for all departments. Server management, desktop support, help desk tracking and work orders were my life. I love the hardware/software side of technology and the skills that I acquired here are ones that I still rely on daily, to do my job.
Portfolio
- Everything
- Web
- Audio
- Video
Credit One Bank has been my employer since 1999. I and a handful of other designers and developers have created and maintained this site for as long as I can remember. I have been involved in all digital design elements, banner ads, promotions, language, in some way shape or form. Everything you see here was created by either myself or my team.
Credit One Bank
Design
In 2012 I joined a creative team of like-minded individuals to try our hand at the 48 Hour Film Project. This had been something I had personally wanted to try for years, but didn’t have the means to do so on my own. Our team was randomly assigned the genre of “silent film” and from that point on I set out to make our film the loudest silent film you’ve ever seen heard. Everything you hear in this film (music, sound effects, etc) was created by me, over a 48 hour period. Our team was proud to bring home the award for Best Audio/Music that year, which didn't go to my head at all...
48 Hour Film Project
Audio
This was our second foray into the 48 Hour Film Project, and this time we were bigger, better and more prepared than ever. We were randomly assigned the genre of “Western” this year and immediately got to work. I expanded my role this year as well, not only was I responsible for all things audio (this year we had actual dialog) & music related, I also took on the role of video editor. It was stressful but so rewarding, I’m especially proud of the homage to "Shaun of the Dead" with our little montage (a.k.a. shauntage) near the end of the film. This year we took home the awards for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design, Best Director and Best Film Overall, which again, didn’t go to our heads at all…
48 Hour Film Project
Audio & Video
This was a personal challenge created by friends and I to see if we could write and film a short comedy sketch all in one night. This is the result of that challenge, and I have to say I’m pretty proud of it. We shot the video over the course of 4 hours, I then took it home to write and recorded a western-esque theme song heavily influenced by the works of Gustavo Santaolalla, who was the man behind all the music from the video game The Last of Us. Once we had all the pieces, I edited all the clips together and voila, this is the finished product.
The Sausage Kings
Audio & Video
My favorite photography duo, over at Square Shooting, contacted me to record an alternate version of “Hip to be Square” to go along with the video for their 5 year anniversary. My instructions were to create an instrumental version of the song and make it sound like it was written for a Gap or Target ad. I think we nailed it. Give it a listen to, and stop by SquareShooting.com if you ever need any photography work done!
Square Shooting
Audio
Insert shameless self-promotion here: This was a fun project for me with no rhyme or reason other than to see if I could do it. I wanted to film myself playing “Hunger Strike” in front of the mirror and have each version of me (the real me and my reflection) take turns singing the Eddie Vedder & Chris Cornell parts. Normally I wouldn’t put something like this inside my “Portfolio”, but with over 21,000 views on youTube, I figured it’s worth a shot.
Hunger Strike (Acoustic Cover) - Temple of the Dog
Audio & Video
After Jamie’s first few races, Credit One Bank was eager to compile all of the videos taken of our car speeding around the track into a gorgeous clip that we could share on social media, there was just one tiny problem with that. All of the video files got corrupted and we had no clips to work with. What we did have, was a huge surplus of photos from all the events. Now, before you say anything, I agree. I absolutely despise slideshows that people turn into videos, they always come out cheap and there’s no energy behind them. I decided to take that lack of energy and add custom audio throughout. Go ahead and watch the slideshow, but make sure you do it with your sound on, as each slide has its own custom audio cues that add motion and energy throughout. I did all of the photo & video editing as well as the audio assembly fo this clip.
Credit One Bank
Audio & Video
When you have over 9,000,000 cardmembers, one of the best ways for Credit One Bank to save money, is to persuade as many of them as we can to move away from paper statements. This was a layover page that our cardmember would receive immediately after successful sign in to their account online. They were solicited the add, given a brief description and all the legal language they had to agree to was right there on the screen. Of course this information is confidential, so I had to “greek” it out, but you can get a good idea of how it was presented here.
Credit One Bank
Web Design
With close to 80% of our potential cardmembers coming to us on mobile devices, one of the major obstacles we needed to overcome was making it as easy as possible to let them know whether or not they qualify for our card, in as few steps as possible. Filling out a credit card application sucks, filling out a credit card application on a mobile phone is even worse. My instruction from the Chief Marketing Officer was to create an online experience where a potential customer (prospect) could come in and give us the bare minimum information and see whether or not we have an offer available for them, based on their credit-worthiness. This is the outcome of that project, a simple 3-page process that takes the annoyance out of applying for a credit card.
Credit One Bank
Web Design
Credit One Bank offers what we call “Premium Cards”, but the take rate isn’t as high as we had hoped. In an effort to lift those numbers, I was tasked with designing a page that would be served to currently eligible cardmembers to A. let them know they are eligible for a Premium Card, and B. make the experience as fun and interactive as possible.
Credit One Bank
Web Design
Credit One Bank is the official Credit Card issuer for the Vegas Golden Knights, which is pretty cool. I created this page, which is still being used today, to collect information regarding peoples interest in the Vegas Born Card. Everything you see here was designed and coded by me.
Credit One Bank
Web Design
Credit One Bank is one of the leading issuers of sub-prime credit cards. This means that we offer credit cards to a demographic that typically does not have access to credit, due to poor life decisions or a complete lack of credit history altogether. One of the main benefits of obtaining our card is to help your credit score reach a point where you can then graduate to a Discover or Capital One card. This was an email campaign we launched letting our cardmembers know that they are eligible to add an authorized user to their account, and the spendings of the authorized user will count towards improving their credit score. We have a heavy corporate brand, so the majority of our emails look very similar, however using a tool called Litmus, we’ve been able to design a rock solid email template that will render the same in ALL clients (even Outlook).
Credit One Bank
Email Design
The Reconsidered is a local Las Vegas 3-piece cover band that specializes in reimagining songs with a more punkish / rockish vibe. The way we work is, each of us will pick a song to cover, then we work together to give it a modern rock make-over, record it, and lastly film a video for it to release on YouTube. The entire process, all instrumentation, graphic design, motion graphics, audio and video is done by us. We wanted full control over our creative output, plus there’s always the bragging rights that come along with being able to pull a video like this off only using three people.
The Reconsidered
Audio & Video Production
This one is simple - download and use our app, make your payments on time, and you too could be eligible to win $10,000! I mean, why not? This landing page was designed for our "2019 Mobile App Sweepstakes campaign. The original request was for the confetti to be a static background image (STATIC!?!? I know, lame right?) When I got the final coded page back to them they nearly lost it. The animated confetti falling from the top of the browser blew their minds, and I was pretty proud of it too. Check it out!
Credit One Bank
Web Design
Fun Stuff
Sparkle Motion!
After several years of whining, the kids finally convinced me that they were capable and ready to cover their very first song, so I let them name our band, pick the tune and we got to work. We recorded the audio over the course of 2 days and knocked the video out on a an afternoon. I must say, for the amount of time we put into this, I am very proud of them! I am sure they will be begging for more covers, so be prepared.
KEELEY'S KREATIONS
What do you do when your daughter constantly mixes household items to create "potions" all day / every day? You film her doing just that for your semester final video project, that’s what you do! And if that video just so happens to get 100%, is voted the best video of all classes that semester AND is selected to be screened for the Las Vegas Film Festival, you thank your lucky stars! Everything you see and hear in this video was created by me or ‘us’ as she would like to believe. Myself, I’m pretty fond of that kazoo in the background music, we don’t get that much kazoo stuff these days, it’s a shame really.
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
Ah Mother’s Day… I struggle with this holiday every year as I don’t like to do traditional things. Sure flowers and breakfast at the Hash House A Go Go are amazing and might earn me that coveted son-of-the-year-award (that chicken and waffles dish though, that thing... it's insane, and could easily feed an entire family). But for me, I prefer to go take the road less travelled, such as recording one of the songs her and I used to sing when I was a wee little lad. This is a track by a little band called The Beatles and she nailed it! Even better, is now we’ll always have something to remember that year by… those flowers and chicken and waffles would have been long forgotten by now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTEN
You know the feeling you get when you finally meet that special someone and you start doing things you wouldn’t normally do… like shaving, showering, and listening to adult contemporary R&B artists? Well, that’s exactly what happened to me when I met Kristen. This girl. She had HAS it all, and again with me bucking traditional ways, I decided to record and film a video of me singing / playing one of her favorite songs for her first birthday that we shared together. I had a blast creating this and it was so out of my “comfort zone” that I can’t help but laugh when I re-watch it now. All in all, I went through with it and she loved it! I can’t account for her taste in music, but she did agree to marry me, so I must of done something right.
THE END OF THE WORLD (AS WE KNOW IT)
I don’t know if you were aware, but the world ended on December 21st 2012, or so we were led to believe. This news really bummed me out, I along with most other people didn’t really want the world to end. I mean, I love Earth, it’s where I keep most of my stuff! So I figured what better way is there to celebrate the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar and the world itself, than to get together with 30 of your closest friends and record a song? I recorded the music on a Sunday and throughout the next 2 weeks everyone stopped by when they were available to lay down their vocals. After all the tracks were recorded, we spent 3 days mixing the 51 total tracks in hopes to have it ready to release on December 20, 2012. You can only imagine how irritated I was when the world really didn’t end! All that hard work for nothing.
DO WHAT YOU CAN’T • 2018
My wife works for Sparks, and they had an internal, company wide competition to create a video for the “Do What You Can’t” contest on YouTube. Her team decided to get tattoo’s for their entry, (which is pretty cool, because you don’t typically associate getting tattoo’s with the HR Department). After taking tons of pictures and video’s they realized they lacked one crucial skill necessary to complete this project, the ability to edit all the images/clips together to create one cohesive story. This is where I came in. I received all of their assets on a Wednesday night with the video due that Friday. They also had no specific direction in mind, so they gave me full creative control over the story and tone of their video. The final product took a little over 3 hours to assemble and in the end, they wound up winning first place, which got them $500 each… not too shabby if I do say so myself.
*Full disclosure: All of their video was shot vertically, and the people responsible for this atrocity have already been dealt with.