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Resume

 

SUMMARY

Expert designing visuals (designs, illustrations, animations, and interfaces) for websites, presentations, software and other multimedia products. Professional experience working with clients and providing answers to challenging design projects. Delivery of superior quality product on-time and within budget. Expert with design tools and methods.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

February 2001 to Current

Freelance Senior Multimedia Designer, Graphic Designer, Artist, and Animator

Websites:

Other Work Samples:

  • Ocular Therapeutix – Designed and developed the corporate website and a secure site for distributors of their products. Designed and animated several presentations in Flash to advertise and explain several methods of using their products. Designed several printed pieces. Designed several conference visuals including displays. Edited video segments for presentations.
  • VPG/Vital Source – Designed many Flash animated presentations and innovative interfaces for websites and companion CD’s to text books (from publishers like McGraw Hill)
    – Lead the art and animation production of several online instructional medical products that included illustrations, animations and interactive movies to supplement a medical textbook
  • BrainShark for Harvard Pilgrim Health, Forsythe, and Citi Bank – Created interactive Flash presentations with several segments
  • McClain Marketing – (http://www.mcclainmarketing.com/gallery/category/multimedia) – Flash timeline presentation for showing on the web, Flash product presentation, animated TV spot commercials, video and more for many clients.
  • BayaSoft – http://www.bayasoft.com – created 5 promotional animations.
  • GlanceNet – http://www.glance.net – created promotional animation that shows the use of their product/service.
  • PDG Associates – http://www.millfalls.com – created flash home pages using provided graphics and photos which dynamically show external images and text. http://www.portcityarch.com – created flash homepage introduction animation which displays random images in clickable topic buttons.
  • Win Interactive – Created several interfaces and designs for in-court presentations.
  • Houghton Mifflin – Several portal pages for college disciplines.
  • Covidien – Created several Flash presentations and illustrations to instruct and promote medical products.
  • Confluent Surgical – Designed and authored entire website, storyboarded, animated, and engineered several Flash presentations to instruct and promote medical products to help them get funding and ultimately get purchased by Covidien.
  • Fairchild Semiconductors – Created a 3D animation of a globe and zoom in to areas on the globe of their new campus location; created a 3D animation advertising their new micro-chip.
  • Tom Snyder Productions – Art Directed production of an Educational Math game. Storyboarded and monitored production of animations and art for entire game.
  • BrainShift Corp. – Storyboarded, animated, and engineered a Flash game and animations of an interactive product intro and game-summary menu screens.
  • Others – Created several logos, business cards, letterheads and other identity materials.

September 1999 to February 2001

JuniorNet Corp. – Boston, MA
Principle Artist, Senior Designer
JuniorNet – Kid’s online community

  • Reading Rainbow site – Worked with client (Lancit in NY), internal designers and project managers while maintaining overall product guidelines established by the Art Director
    Designed main character approved over several proposals
    Designed, created and prepared the main interface, all activity backgrounds and contributed extensively with the concepts of all Reading Rainbow activities
  • Participated with creating the new user interface of the online portal

March 1994 to September 1999

Vipah Interactive, Inc. – Wellesley, MA
Art Director

  • Houghton Mifflin Interactive’s Curious George software product line: 6 CD titles. Secured the first contract by creating a final product intro chosen over several other competing submissions.
  • ValueSoft’s: Deer’s Revenge – Internal Deer Hunter parody and marketed through ValueSoft.
  • Houghton Mifflin Company’s Curious George’s Continuing Adventures Series:
    Curious George children’s illustrated books and a pop-up book

Fall 1989 to February 1994

EduQuest – An IBM Company – Provo, UT
Senior Artist, Art Director

  • Created art, animations, designs, and user interfaces for several projects and directed up to 12 artists at one time. Products include: Exploring Math Concepts I and II, Reading for Meaning, PALS (adult literacy product), Toolkit for Mathematics, and Stories and More I and II

 

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE

Adobe Creative Suite, 3D Studio Max, Painter, Microsoft Office products

Engineering

HTML, CSS, Action Scripting.
Some experience working with XML, ASP, Javascript, and PHP.

 

EDUCATION

BFA in Illustration – Brigham Young University, Provo, UT – 2001