How about the beginning: My leadership skills were developed while proudly serving in the United States Marine Corps as an Aircraft Rescue Firefighter. During my downtime I began dabbling with HTML and Photoshop (v4). In 2000 I turned this hobby into a business and have been loving it ever since.
Over the years I've discovered several different styles and techniques that led me to settle on what I call subdued elegance. It can grab your attention and subconsciously ease you into the design; it's easy on the eyes yet powerful enough to capture and guide your focus to what is truly important.
Whether you’re a startup with no design or branding to speak of, or already up and running with a solid track record, my services can be tailored to fit your particular needs, situation and budget.
Senior User Experience Designer (Altus Systems)
- UI/UX strategy and design of branding packages for major clients including Cisco, Raytheon, Oracle, RIM, VMware, Honeywell, IBM, and NetApp.
- Web and mobile UI/UX strategy, planning, wireframe and design of new SaaS platform.
- Authored and designed company-wide platform style guide.
- User-centric UI and iconography design.
- Review, recommend and design potential UI/UX improvements to current product line.
- Presentation and graphic design for sales and investor presentations.
Freelance Web & Interactive Design / Development
- Web site design, web graphics including animations, branding, and banner ad design.
- Flash application design & Application programming.
- User interface design and implementation.
- Graphic design, corporate collateral & photographic manipulation.
- Conducted client meetings for information gathering and concept development.
Senior Flash Developer (Viscira, LLC)
- Designed, developed and tested/debugged projects for major pharmaceutical and biotech industry leaders such as: Allergan, Amgen, Cephalon, EMD Serono, Genentech, OrthoNeutrogena, Takeda (TAP Pharmaceutical), etc.
- Created Flash “Sales training demo system” utilizing cue point driven flash video integration as well as lesson progress tracking and detailed animated technical demonstrations.
- Developed the company’s first interactive touch-screen video kiosk system which allowed for timed and x/y coordinate targeting of touch points within the video playback.
- Developed the company’s first “Viscicast” system, as well as several subsequent versions, allowing for quick reproduction of in-person presentations. The Viscicast system is a visual representation of a lecture in which the system displays the video of the presenter along with synchronized PowerPoint slides right next to the video screen for an “as if you were there” experience.
- Designed the layout, branding and iconography for several new intranet-based sales force information and social networking-based systems.
Senior Web Developer (The Picture People)
- UI/UX strategy and design of touch screen point of sale system for 300+ retail mall locations resulting in an increased efficiency of over 60%.
- Planned and authored a 50+ page help desk “Bible.”
- Onside / on-call technical support for system rollout.
- Acted as “First Day Conversion Supervisor” for several nationwide locations where I supervised the staff who were using our newly created point of sale software and printing technologies.
- Front-End web design & development of their marketing web site which received over 1.5 Million unique visitors per month.
- Flash design/programming for web and point of sale promotional displays.
- Designed email/promotional layouts for web marketing campaigns.
- Setup and manageed printable products in point of sale system.
- Designed and built dynamically applied printable templates.