Past Experience
CBSNews.com
Associate Creative Director, Art Director, Web Designer
- Art direction and site design for the CBS News website
- Editorial design and art direction for breaking-news and in-depth storytelling on the web
- Lead designer for the first generation of the CBS News website, working with and overseeing agency (Razorfish) in conception and implementation of initial template-driven site, as well as two subsequent redesigns
- Art directed and designed CBS News Program websites for publication within CMS templates
- Created customizable web templates and colorschemes for use by CBS' 156 affiliate station sites
- Designed custom video and audio players throughout the CBSNews website
- Multimedia and actionable iconography design
- Art directed Flash news interactives
- Contributing art direction and design on CBS.com entertainment website
03.1997 - 07.2000
Independent Contractor for Gruner & Jaar publishing (now Meredith Corp.)
- Lead designer for complete redesign of CMS templated online version of Parents, "America's Number One Parenting Magazine." IA, design, HTML
- Design of online logo (since evolved)
- Information architecture for Parents.com's highly-trafficked Community pages (site has since been redesigned)
- Contributing site design and development, monthly content updating and publishing
- Marketing design for FamilyCircle.com and Child.com
08.2001 - 12.2005
Mid-century/Modern furniture dealer brochure website
- Information architecture, design, front-end development
2003 - present
- Conceptualized, art directed, designed, and pitched HTML and Flash websites for clients at this boutique interactive agency
- Information architecture and usability were integral steps of our design and development process
- Identity design including logo, business cards, letterhead, and promotional collateral
- Designed and co-developed the company's Flash website, fodny.com
07.2000 - 05.2001
Languages and Software
Languages Proficienct in HTML and CSS; (XHTML), familarity with PHP, JavaScript
Software Advanced use of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, HomeSite
Emphasis User-experience, usefulness, interaction design. Proficient in photographic color-correction and printing. PC and Macintosh platforms. Front-end development for cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility. Ten years of art direction, interaction design, user-experience design, and coding for the web.