Curriculum Vitae

Interactive design and art direction with over 15 years of experience in print, multimedia, and web development.

2007 to Present
Babcock & Jenkins
Portland, OR
Title: Web Architect

DUTIES

2005 to 2007
Centerpointe Research Institute
Beaverton, OR
Title: Interactive Designer

DUTIES

  • Designing all interactive, print, and direct mail materials
  • Creating and maintaining company and joint venture partner's websites
  • Creating artwork and user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
  • Programing user interfaces for web and CD-ROM
  • Editing video for presentations with Final Cut Pro

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Redesigned entire identify system and all existing marketing and product materials
  • Restructured and redesigned company website
  • Launched an interactive magazine style newsletter published every month on the web and distributed via email
  • Developed a series of viral marketing pieces that included flash cartoons, games, and quizzes to increase email list conversion rates
  • Designed packaging for entire product line of meditation CD's including covers, support materials, and marketing packages.

2003 to 2004
Babcock & Jenkins
Beaverton, OR
Title: Senior Interactive Designer

DUTIES

  • Designing direct electronic mail campaigns using technologies such as Flash, HTML, and XML
  • Creating storyboards that illustrated the flow of campaigns and interactive pieces
  • Concepting and Developing campaigns that were both impactful and followed brand guidelines
  • Creating artwork, and user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Worked on campaigns the generated a high number of results and substantial ROI

2001 to 2003
Orange 351
Portland, OR
Title: Lead Design / Art Director

DUTIES

  • Overseeing the development of diverse projects ranging from web, print, CD-ROM and video.
  • Meeting with clients and helping shape their vision into designs the have both maximum impact as well as exceptional functionality
  • Managing multiple projects and ensuring a high level of quality control for those projects
  • Helping designers under me refine ideas, and keeping designs consistent when working on multi-person projects
  • Creating time tables for expected delivery times of projects, and ensuring those deadlines were met
  • Creating artwork, logos, and user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and 3D Studio Max
  • Creating Interactive Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Director CD-ROM's
  • Programming and designing flash interfaces for clients requiring a higher level of functionality.
  • Designing video segments to be used in CD-ROM presentations with Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Developed the Cyanea/One front end interface that uses a combination of flash and XML sockets to allow users to monitor servers and make corrections to poor application performance on the fly.
  • Developed the Cyanea and Cyanea/One brand, logo, and all promotional materials
  • Designed and programmed a interactive flash site to showcase Geile Rexfords work
  • Created an interactive CD-ROM to be used in presentations and product demos showcasing the core technologies and benefits of B2SB. CD was developed using 3D Studio Max, Swift 3D, and Macromedia Flash
  • Created a small site for B2SB to create synergistic bridges between small business through marketing and social networking
  • Developed the Orange 351 website and multiple flash video games to demonstrate Orange 351's unique design and flash development

2000 to 2000
Freelance Graphic Artist
St. Louis, MO

OUTSTANDING PROJECTS/CLIENTS

  • AGENCY: Zipatoni

    Programmed and developed online ice cream factory simulation called "ConeFactory" in which children create their own ice cream flavors and try to sell them. Game front end was developed in Macromedia Flash 5.
  • AGENCY: Zipatoni

    Designed and programmed online trivia game called "Beads or Bust" used to promote product awareness of company products during Mardi Gras. Game was written in Macromedia Flash 4.
  • AGENCY: Zipatoni

    Programmed an interactive CD-ROM that showcased the new features of a large corporation and their email to print service.
  • CLIENT: St. Louis Science Center
    AGENCY: Prowolfe Partners, Inc.

    Created a 30 Minute Macromedia Director presentation for a benefit dinner at the St. Louis Science Center that was shown to over 300 guests.
  • CLIENT: The Potomac Accord

    Created a small website for a local band recently featured in the many local and national publications.

1999 to 2000
Netcreations
New York, NY
Title: Senior Designer

DUTIES

  • Creating new look and feel for existing sites within the network of postmasterdirect.com and Netcreations sites
  • Creating an entire identify system for Netcreations and its main service, PostMasterDirect
  • Creating Ads in Adobe Illustrator for such publications as Wired Magazine, DM News, Business 2.0, Internet Magazine and SRDS
  • Creating Media Kits, data cards, fact sheets and interactive demonstrations for PostMasterDirect.com
  • Overseeing the creation of trade show booths, signs, banners, and promotional materials

1999 to 1999
Bionic Arts
Santa Fe, NM
Title: Senior Designer

DUTIES

  • Overseeing the development of the entire Identify system for Bionic Arts and its parent company, Internet One
  • Creating Websites from start to finish
  • Overseeing the creation of all marketing materials for simple.com, a revolutionary web portal for sports, news, and stock quotes
  • Creating artwork, logos, and user interfaces in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
  • Creating online Macromedia Shockwave games for the promotion of Bionic Arts
  • Programming and designing Shockwave games for clients requiring promotional materials for their sites
  • Writing Perl programs to search databases and provide basic functionality to our clients' websites
  • Working in Macromedia Flash to create interactive and animated web sites
  • Creating banner ads for clients such as Sams CD, Sony Music, and Today's Sports

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Worked on Bionic Arts website that received the Communication Arts Interactive Award
  • Produced Do You Know Sports, an online sports trivia game for promoting the website Today's Sports
  • Developed entire identify system for Bionic Art's parent company, Internet One
  • Worked on the promotional Simple.com CD-ROM presentation - a multi-level interactive movie developed in 3D studio max and sequenced with Adobe Aftereffects and Premier

1995 to 1998
Thrifty Nickel Want Ads
St. Louis, MO
Title: Production Artist

DUTIES

  • Creating advertisements for local business in Adobe PageMaker and Quark Xpress
  • Scanning and preforming photo manipulation with Adobe Photoshop
  • Hand cutting color separations with ruby lift and producing color separations through Adobe Pagemaker and Quark
  • Overseeing the production of special section inserts
  • Training of new employees
  • Mapping out the layout of a 64 page publication
  • Communicating with sales personnel to capture the desires of clients for their advertisements

Well Versed in the following software:

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Flash
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Logic Pro

Expertly knowledgeable of the following technologies:

  • HTML/CSS
  • XML/XML Sockets
  • Actionscript
  • Javascript/jQuery
  • Perl
  • Applescript
  • MySQL
  • 6502 Aseembler