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title: "Havas"
url: https://sydbydesign.com/havas/
description: "My first job right after college was at an ad agency. While at Havas, I worked on code and design projects for IBM & TD Ameritrade ."
published: 2026-08-13
updated: 2026-08-13
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# Havas

Published 2026-08-13

**CLIENT**: IBM, TD Ameritrade

**ROLE**: Frontend developer, UX prototyper

**YEAR**: 2017

My first job right after college was at an ad agency. While at Havas, I worked on code and design projects for IBM & TD Ameritrade .

## TD AMERITRADE

After TD Bank announed its re-brand which highlights a much modern and youthful tone-of-voice, Havas was tasked with designing a new brand expression guide book for the Omaha native. For this project, I paired up with a senior UI designer to brainstorm, design, and prototype highly interactive modules for TD's digital style guide, originally created in PDF format by 2 creative directors.The following is a compilation of multiple motion prototypes and interactive modules that were created for the pitch.

## IBM

2 months after graduation, I became part of the core team that developed [IBM's IoT Whitepaper experience](https://www.ibm.com/industries/manufacturing/iot-in-industrial-sector-2017/#snapshot). I assisted lead developers with animating many individual elements that make up this highly interactive experience: sound, load screen, sidebar, buttons, etc... I also took part in design reviews and helped the dev team consult UX/UI designers with designing motions and interactions that best fulfill the experience.

## SOME BACKGROUND

I love animations. I learned to write my first few lines of JavaScript to animate something on my website back in 2015. I soon picked up different methods of on-screen animating such as CSS, JavaScript, and After Effects. Look where they got me!