For me design is the pursuit of context and seeking to understand. Only by asking questions of our user, our brand, our actions and ourselves can we begin to understand the context of a design. From a foundation of understanding, ideas and actions can be taken that attempt to answer those questions and solve problems. Philosophy aside, the story is in the actions I’ve taken throughout my career. I invite you to explore all the projects and places I hang out on the web.
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Seeking collaboration with passionate people in a creative workspace.
Art Director at 4SIGHT Communications, Chicago, IL [12/07 – Present]
Collaborate with clientele to generate interactive and graphic design assets for online marketing campaigns. Assist design/development of branding and front end interfaces for website creation software similar to Blogger. Contribute to ideation of marketing campaigns through the use of clearly communicated project briefs, design documentation, verbal and written means. Deliver final products that are standards compliant, traffic-inducing and integrated with latest markup, JavaScript, ruby and CMS technologies.
Lead Designer at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI [11/06 – 11/07] Lead teams of designers and developers to generate visual and interactive assets for online college courses. Collaborated with producers to help them locate appropriate talent for their projects and then guide and coach those relationships to encourage communication and team work by documenting and communicating project specs, setup estimates and functional specs, track projects and deliverables for timely completion within budgetary constraints. Contribute to policy making and hiring process within agency leadership group.
Artistic Designer at INK, East Lansing, MI [9/05 – 5/06]
Iterated designs in response to feedback from creative director. Generation of wireframes, interfaces, icons, letterpress postcards, t-shirts and flash assets for educational massive multiplayer game. Organization of art assets in named, layered Photoshop files with supporting documentation. Collaborated with development team to merge the educative and aesthetic experience of the game.
Producer at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI [11/01 – 11/06]
Collaborated with academic staff to design educational content for the web. Processed wealth of client information into coherent actionable goals through the use of storyboards, information architecture, wireframes, meetings and committees. Generated assets such as interactive videos, games and information graphics in addition to writing project proposals, design and technical documentation. Lead brainstorming sessions for web-based applications then coordinated their design and build creative and development teams. Presented work at meetings and conferences attended by more than 200 people.
Graphic Designer at ScholarsFirst, Southfield, MI [9/00 – 10/01]
Designed and developed elearning materials such as web-based video, graphics, and interactive content. Collected, designed and implemented web-based elearning materials sent from field producers. Production work converting word documents into clean markup web pages and editing digital video. Designed active learning exercises in Flash and JavaScript.
Masters of Fine Art in New Media Design, 2000
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
(Merit Scholarship 1999-2000)
Bachelors of Fine Art in Photography, 1998
Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI
(Art student of the year, 1998)