E X P E R I E N C E
12/2003 – Present
LOUD Technologies Inc. (EAW.com, EAWCommercial.com, TAPCOgear.com, LOUDtechinc.com, Mackie.com)
Web Services / Electronic Marketing Manager
Managed 75+ simultaneous projects and a four person team.
- Integrated the company’s marketing data collection into a single tool enabling better customer communication.
- Consolidated three servers and code consisting of a Mac server and Unix server running PERL based apps being converted to IIS and ASP/VBScript.
- Managed resources and systems for integrated Marketing team with live server, forums server, staging server, db server and remote publishing by content owners.
- Established the first live update mini site for Mackie.com from NAMM, the foremost industry tradeshow.
- Managed ongoing site translated work for MI sites into Japanese, German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Determined product priority and arranged for language interns, thus broadening the company’s market penetration and saving approximately $40k to date.
Web Designer
Responsible for the design, development, and architecture of all the sites in the LOUD Technologies family.
- Designed, developed, and architected tapcogear.com as brand expanded it’s product line.
- Managed Mackie.com ongoing design and worked on re-architecting the site for future redesigns.
- Responsible for maintaining the Corporate site and updating the internal intranet with relevant HR and financial documents.
- Responsible for specing and purchasing a new studio camera suite for product photography.
- Responsible for in house studio photography resulting in $20k in savings over outsourced photoshoots.
Self Employed
Independent Graphic Design
Technical consulting and graphic design for a variety of small business clients.
- Contracted at Amazon.com as product photo imager.
- Consultant for Gym at the Pavilion.
- Consultant for Fields End, a writers’ community.
ScreenPlay, Inc.
Digital Media Manager/Lead Designer.
Maintained the corporate look across all aspects of marketing materials.
- Handled initial scope and schema for streaming CMS (transitioned to new streaming team).
- Produced full set of marketing materials (brochures and collateral) for ScreenPlay's product line which resulted in greater brand awareness through regional and national exposure.
- Established brand guidelines and color conversions across all formats and vendors.
- Created marketing materials for various trade shows, special vendor deals, and partnership agreements.
Webmaster
Designed, produced, and created information architecture of the corporate site.
- Designed, developed, regrouped content, and maintained website on a regular basis.
- Managed various vendor relationships by strengthening partnerships and lowering costs through joint development.
- Managed internal processes, external vendor and client relationships related to streaming services, creating a stabilized infrastructure and more robust service which resulted in a "Top Ten Streaming" award by The Aberdeen Group.
- Maintained and managed all aspects of the internal and external network (T1 lease, Ethernet and fiber lines, file servers, system maintenance, system administration, and SAN system).
Walt Disney Corporation
Associate Designer
Part of a team that produced the overall design for ESPN.com.
- Maintained pages within size and weight guidelines.
- Created graphics for individual packages on ESPN.com revolving around major sports schedules.
- Built mock-ups for various pages within a package.
- Produced daily top-story and secondary logo graphics for "Page 2" an editorial section of ESPN.com.
- Created all site graphics with new design guidelines for relaunch of EXPN.com.
- Created site and section tabs and extrapolated design from an initial set of images for new espnDeportes site.
Production Artist
Produced daily graphics for ESPN.com, NASCAR.com, NFL.com, NBA.com and WNBA.com.
- Daily color correction and cropping of photos within current size and weight guidelines for ESPN and League sites.
- Assisted with redesigns through graphic and html production.
- Produced graphics for packages on ESPN.com.
- Assisted with creation of mock-ups for various pages within a package.
- Produced, scheduled, and assisted with design for "Inside the Playbook" (animated football play diagrams) one of the first interactive Flash applications online.
Additional responsibilities applicable to both ESPN.com positions:
- Researched new equipment and software purchases.
- Maintained and performed troubleshooting of group machines.
- File management and archiving of group files and servers.
- Established standards and processes for the Design Production Group.
- Built and maintained production department's style guide.
11/1996 - 2/1997
Microsoft
Microsoft Service Representative
Liaison between individual training centers and Microsoft's Outside Development Group. 1994 - 1996
Self Employed
Independent Graphic Design
Technical consulting and graphic design for a variety of small business clients.
P R O G R A M S & L A N G U A G E S
- PhotoShop
- Illustrator
- Freehand
- Flash
- DeBabelizer
- PageMaker
- InDesign
- Strata StudioPro
- FormZ
- Dreamweaver
- HTML
- DHTML
- JavaScript
- ASP
- PHP
- CSS
- MySQL
- MS Project
Guill.org
http://www.guill.org/portfolio
Personal website including online portfolio with additional examples from both print and new media.
