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skills

• Creative, user-friendly interface design
• Flash design, storyboards and animation
• Brainstorming and concept development
• Online branding systems
• Excellent oral and written communication and collaboration
• Site maps, wireframes, and user flow charts

expert in:
Photoshop/ImageReady - Illustrator - HTML - Dreamweaver

proficient in:
Flash - Quark - InDesign

experience

September 2004 - July 2006
Art Director, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

• Concepted and designed direct marketing emails and print mail for all segments of Apple's customer base.
• Coordinated direct marketing efforts with advertising, packaging, and retail initiatives.

September 2003 - September 2004
Interactive Designer, salesforce.com, San Francisco, CA

• Concepted and designed marketing emails, Web sites, banners, presentation graphics and Flash animations.
• Designed and maintained a template system for the design and production of marketing emails.
• Authored brand guidelines for corporate and product logos, typography, and graphic elements.

May 2002 - August 2003
Freelance Web Designer, San Francisco, CA

• Designed Flash and HTML Web sites, CD-ROMs and print materials for a wide variety of clients.
• Managed all aspects of client projects including proposals, estimates, budgets, timelines, and day-to-day communication with clients in New York, San Francisco, Southern California and the Midwest.
• Clients include:
  • Restoration Hardware E-commerce Web Site
  • PeopleSoft Partner Connection Email Newsletter
  • Sony Digital Mavica Digital Cameras CD-ROM
  • Sony Digital Cybershot-U Digital Camera HTML Email
  • Fujifilm FinePix Digital Cameras CD-ROM
  • Blue Shield of California Employee and Patient Intranets
  • Sapient IC MAP Interface
  • Enyce Clothing Company Flash Web Site
  • Public Clothing Company Web Site
  • Ensenda HTML Email and Postcard

January 2002 - May 2002
Lead Web Designer, StudioMoon Identity Design, San Francisco, CA

• Created "Artist of the Month" Flash sitelet for Budweiser, integrating both the Budweiser brand identity and the personalities of musical artists including Smashmouth, Andrew WK and Queens of the Stone Age.
• Architected, designed and programmed detailed online Flash demo for DiscoveryGate, a high-end, Web-based pharmaceutical research application.
• Clients include:
  • Budweiser Artist of the Month
  • MDL DiscoveryGate
  • Colin McRae Photography Web Site

August 2000 - November 2001
Senior Designer, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, New York, NY

• Designed Web sites and online branding initiatives for blue-chip clients.
• Led creative brainstorming sessions and mentored designers.
• Introduced information architecture into design workflow, including user flow charts, functional specifications and wireframe page layouts.
• Clients include:
  • Fujifilm FinePix Picture of America Tour Web Site
  • Unilever Web Site
  • Ortho McNeil Ortho Evra Web Site
  • o.b. Tampons o.b. You Web Site
  • Camel Active Web Site
  • Berlex Laboratories Online Branding Guidelines

August 1999 - August 2000
Senior Designer, Frankfurt Balkind Partners, New York, NY

• Developed concepts, interface designs, and online brand continuity for a variety of clients.
• Worked closely with information architects to develop collaborative IA/Design process.
• Coordinated with print, identity and video designers to ensure project integration across disciplines.
• Mentored and trained associate designer.
• Clients include:
  • RCN 1999 Annual Report
  • Goldman Sachs Web Site
  • American Museum of Natural History (freelance) Online Professional Development Courses

May 1999 - August 1999
Senior Designer, Strategic Interactive Group (Digitas), New York, NY

• Designed layouts and graphics for launch of American Express Blue Card Web site in accordance with global corporate style guide and Vignette StoryServer templates.
• Worked with information architect to develop complex e-commerce interface concepts for Book of the Month Club.
• Clients include:
  • American Express Blue Card
  • Book of the Month Club

January 1998 - May 1999
Senior Designer, T3 Media, New York, NY

• Contributed to information and graphic design for a variety of web projects in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Clients include:
  • Sony Electronics
  • Allied Signal

January 1997 - January 1998
Freelance Designer and Production Artist, New York, NY

• Design and graphic production for CD-ROM titles: Making More Music, Digital Griot: The Work of Betye Saar (The Voyager Company), Who Built America? II (Worth Publishers, Inc.)

May 1996 - December 1996
Production Artist, The Voyager Company, New York, NY

• Collaborated with art director, programmer and producer to create graphics for high-quality, original-content CD-ROMs, including: Monk's Guide to New York, Children's Songbook, The Louvre Museum for Kids

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