Professional Experience
Freelance Designer & Developer
- Minneapolis, MN, Portland, OR
- 1997–2008
Web design and development, information architecture, identity systems, print design, advertising, audio production and voiceover. Web development projects range from Flash to php, perl and asp-based commerce and crm and cms packages.
Instructor
- Brainco School of Advertising, Design & Interactive Studies – Minneapolis, MN
- 2005
Created and taught an Interactive Graphics curriculum geared toward mid-level and advanced designers to give a deeper understanding of graphic technologies and best practices in interactive media. Flash, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop.
Interactive Design Lead
- Allianz Life – Minneapolis, MN
- 2004-2006
Led redesign and .net integration for all public-facing websites. Improved usability and brand consistency. Other projects: Flash development, dvd interface design, audio production, and e-mail marketing. Built broadcast-quality recording studio with call-in capacity for production of recorded conference calls and web seminars.
Interactive Design Lead
- Olson + Co – Minneapolis, MN
- 2003-2004
Led redesign of new website and interactive cd for NSF International. Improved brand visibility with a flexible design system that combined many different divisional sites into single site with a consistent look and feel. Designed and illustrated One Show award-winning Safetytown, a Flash-based interactive cd that tells NSF’s story.
Interactive Art Director
- Linnihan Foy Advertising – Minneapolis, MN
- 2002-2003
Art direction, web development(asp, php, Flash), crossover to print. Delivered creative for websites, print advertising and sales collateral. Mostly B2B accounts.
Lead Designer, Developer
- Dick Jones Interactive – Minneapolis, MN
- 2001-2003
Web and print design, information architecture and application development (php, perl). Developed a custom cms, event registration system, and Flash projects.
Interactive Designer
- VisiDesign – Minneapolis, MN
- 1998-2001
Web design and development (perl, Flash), systems integration and identity design. Mostly B2C accounts.
Webmaster, Javatronic Engineer
- Cyber X – Minneapolis, MN
- 1996-2001
Minneapolis’ first and longest-lived cybercafe. Learned a lot about HCI and user behavior by being immersed in web culture and technology in its formative stages. Administrated in-house Solaris web and mail server, local network, workstations and websites.