| Freelance Art Director / Designer 2001 — Present |
Creating idents, branding assets, and scalable design solutions for a diverse client base. Clientele include restaurants, DOD contractors, corporate, film projects, 501(c)3's, and educational entities, with recent focus upon the design and art direction needs of startups [primarily incubator and post-angel level]. |
Aol. Designer [Contract] 3 | 2011 — 5 | 2011 |
Working in the Applications & Commerce Group [ACG]. Involved in AIM rebrand [re-working mark/lock-up]. Building style-guide [first] from ground up for About.me vertical. Heavily involved with AOL Mail re-brand. First designer in AOL West marketing group, building creative/production apparatus from design-brief forms to storyboarding and shooting in-house promotion videos. Creating cross-network online campaigns, email newsletters [for verticals]. Campaign ideation with outside agency and strategy building with PM's. |
Yahoo! Inc. |
Contract position within the Yahoo! Social UED Group. Focused on ‘Pulse’, Yahoo!’s new social-aggregator product. Defining use-cases, designing mocks and wireframes for desktop and mobile devices—incl. iPhone, and iPad. Working directly with PM’s/PMM’s, engineering, and overseas teams. Operating within Agile development model. |
| Yahoo! Inc.
Senior Art Director 1997 — 2001 |
Duties and Responsibilities included creation, maintenance, and enforcement of brand style-guide. Worked in tandem with senior staff and creative director in the creation of multiple annual reports. Designed and managed production of sales peripherals [print/online]. Developed visual language for branding projects [national/intl]. Ideation/implementation of a wide range of buzz and viral campaigns. The go-to senior creative for licensing projects. Managed small team of senior designers and associate art directors. Built and adhered to budgets, time-frames, and schedules. Supervised and directed press-checks [web/sheet]. Ran various boots-on-the-ground aspects of product placement [TV/film] and media relations. Worked directly with agency-of-record on variety of projects and bold new strategies. |
| Yahoo! Inc. U.I. Designer 1996 — 1997 |
Ideation, design, and implementation of a multitude of online design projects. Designed for—and kept fresh—various top-tier Yahoo! properties including; Yahoo! Local [regionals], Finance, Mail, Messenger, and many more. Worked directly with producers, engineering, sales, and VP-Design to define, build, and expand our companies verticals and reach. Always maintained several projects simultaneously. Worked in lock-step with engineering teams to develop new tools, product offerings, and user-advocacy models. |
| Netscape Corp.
Content Artist 1996 — 1996 |
Worked directly with the Creative Director and editorial team to create original and effective design content for implementation on the Netscape front page—which at the time garnered 80M unique visitors daily. |
| Atari Corp. Animator 1995 — 1995 |
Character animator and video integration specialist. Part of specialized team creating a platform specific RPG title for the original Atari. Staff position, working directly with writers, producers, engineers, and testers. |
| Software | Adobe CS 5 [all], FCP [basics], Microsoft Office, Keynote, Motion, Quark, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq |
| Education | California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| Affiliations | IXDA[SF], AIGA, Taproot Foundation, Bay Area Video Coalition |
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