Summary of my skills
My skill set includes Art Direction, UX and design systems, Graphic Design, Sketch, Adobe XD, UI/UX, Responsive Mobile Design, CMS and CRM, Social Media, Agile Environments, Prototyping and wire framing, HTML, CSS3 and CSS Animation, Responsive emails, HTML banners and animation, Bootstrap, the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe XD, Adobe Experience Manager and Acrobat, Sublime Text 3, SEO/ SEM, Branding, Cinema 4D, Blender, Google Web Designer, and GitHub. Recent experience with XML, and Unity.
Selected Clients include AT&T Mobile, Adobe, Apple iTunes, BMW, Taylor Guitars, Genentech, Mercedes, AutoDesk, Yahoo Music, Zynga, Hyundai, Terminix, HP, Nike, Chevron, SF Giants, LG, and Visa.
Professional Experience
UX Designer, 4/15/2021 – 10/24/2021
Nikon USA
For Nikon I was was brought in to assist with an ongoing campaign for their Flagship D6 DSLR camera and accompanying line of equipment. I was a Sr. Visual Designer and responsible for maintaining and designing new assets for their expanding visual libraries. I created layouts, design systems and modals for their Professional line of DSLRs.
UX Designer, 1/25/2021–3/07/2021
Factory 360, Seattle, Remote
I was responsible for visual design across their AT&T mobile email campaigns each month. I provided art direction for their Black History Month campaign “Dream in Black.” The role involved art direction, asset production and delivery using Figma, Illustrator and InDesign.UX Designer, 9/05/2020 –1/08/2021
Kern Ad Agency (Omnicon), LA, Remote
At Kern, I was responsible for visual design across AT&T’s mobile assets including AT&T Warner Brothers, NBA, HBO Max and TV Now. This involved design and direction of new email assets using Adobe XD, Sketch and Adobe Illustrator as well as WorkFront.
Technical Designer, 11/2017 – 07/15/2020
Zynga
At Zynga, I was responsible for hand coding animations and in game advertising, graphic design and testing responsive emails in Mercury. My accounts included Words with Friends 2, Poker, Farmville and CSR2.
Contract UX Designer, mid 2017 – 11/2017
Adobe
After Adobe's acquisition of TubeMogul, Adobe began producing an end-to-end platform for managing advertising across traditional TV and digital formats. I was tasked with developing slates for desktop, ad layout and mobile overlays.
Contract UX Designer- early 2017
Anthony Skin Care
At Anthony NY, I was responsible for the art design of the site during it's re-branding. I later coded the site using Bootstrap.
Contract UX Designer, early 2017
Kabam-Gaming
For Kabam I developed responsive emails and visual communications media using their proprietary CMS. We created roughly forty emails a week. This involved problem solving and development skills as well as visual image manipulation.
Interactive Art Director, 2014 – 2017
Viscira, San Francisco
Viscira is a Pharma based new media communications agency creating applications and interactive solutions for the life sciences industry. There, I began as a contract Interactive Art Director working on AstraZeneca’s Crestor account. In this role, I was responsible for Art Direction, prototyping and business-to-consumer (B2C) projects.
Later on, my role grew to also include Creative Liaison. This additional role included developing processes that would help that Viscira's Creative and Development teams work more effciently. To accomplish this, I trained both teams in GitLab, SourceTree and Adobe Generate to streamline asset management and I documented the process in the corporate WIKI.
Contract Sr. Visual Designer / Interactive Art Director / Developer, 2010 - 2014
San Francisco
As a contractor during the past few years, my roles have included Interactive Art Design, Developer, Ad Layouts, Production Artist, Animator, Liaison, Manager, 3D Designer and Mentor.
My San Francisco clients have included (and continue to include) Publics Modem, RazorFish, Edelson, Teak, OglivyOne, Propane, Whole Foods, Kontera, Doremus, Kane and Finkle, Pottery Barn, Gyro, JumpStart, McCann, Universal McCann, Young and Rubicam, Kessler, Agency.com, FuzeBox, DraftFCB, GreySF, Goodby- Silverstein and Partners, Organic, Traction, Swirl, AKQA, Quantcast, ZooMedia, Viscira, Havas, Euro RSCG and Kodak Gallery among others.