2020-Present
EXPERIENCE
BEYOND - San Francisco, CA
Group Design Director
Lead all creative for the San Francisco studio and work with our four offices across Europe and North America. Primary focus is designing products for clients that include Google, Tabrasa, Influenster, and Snapchat. Pitched 23 projects and have won over $5.5 million dollars worth of work.
2014-2020
bEAM/MERGE* - Boston, MA
SVP, Creative Director, Experience Design
Oversaw creative teams on projects that range from enterprise websites to CRM applications. Engaged with clients through design sprints and co-design sessions to rapidly prototype solutions. Responsibile for business development, building proposals, staffing and budgeting for projects. Clients included Fidelity, BCG, MFS, Aruba and MINI.
2011-2014
SAPIENT - Boston, MA
Associate Creative Director, Experience Design
Creative lead for The Hartford, Citizens Bank, VCE and Schneider Electric; Experience Design lead on Mohegan Sun and Webster Bank. Managed creative teams across offices in North America and India. Collaborated with account and program management to staff and estimate projects. Fostered a cross country relationship between Boston and India creative studios.
2007-2011
THE MARTIN AGENCY - Richmond, VA
Associate Director of Digital Studio
Managed a team of interactive designers to provide solutions for clients and new business prospects. Trained the studio and design departments to develop more digital capabilities. Clients included BFGoodrich, PING, UPS, Manpower, ESPN, Microsoft, Pizzahut and Walmart.
2005-2007
RIGHTMINDS - Richmond, VA
Interactive Art Director
Designed websites, email campaigns and banner ads for RightMinds, Infor, Genworth, Carl Zeiss, and LandAmerica. Created a website builder application that enabled local LandAmerica offices to build professional looking websites using approved content and brand assets.
2003-2005
CAPITAL ONE - Richmond, VA
Senior Experience Designer
Led the experience design and front-end coding for My One Place, Capital One’s award winning intranet portal. Worked with stakeholders to integrate their ideas into the portal environment and conducted user testing to determine future enhancements.
2001-2002
NORTHPOINT DOMAIN - Boston, MA
Creative Director, Digital
Designed and architected NorthPoint Domain’s suite of web applications and educational courseware. Assembled and managed a team of front-end developers and designers.
2000
LEARNINGBRANDS - Norwood, MA
Director of All Things Visual
Produced e-learning interfaces for Liberty Funds, CNET, Kodak, Club Mom and Gillette. Managed a team of twelve developers, animators and designers.
1996-1999
VICTORY TECHNOLOGY - Sonoma, CA
Director of Art & Media
Created over 175 medical illustrations and 400 photographs for an EMT Textbook. Designed and
architected the website and course templates for MedCollege.com.
EDUCATION
1994-1996
RIT - Rochester, NY
Bachelors of Fine Arts, Medical Illustration
Course work; Gross Anatomy, Surgical Illustration, Human Biology, General Biology, Scientific Illustration.
1992-1994
MVCC - Utica, NY
Associates Degree, Advertising Design & Production
Course work; Graphic Design, Art Direction, Illustration, Copywriting, Photography.
SKILLS
applications:
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Figma
- Miro
- Sketch
- OmniGraffle
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft Office
- InVision
- Wordpress
Design thinking:
- Design Sprints
- Sketching
- Rapid Prototyping
- User Testing
- Generative Research
- Competitive Analyses
- Customer Journeys
- User Flows
- Heuristic Analyses