Summary

I am a User Experience Design Lead who has been working professionally for over 15 years in the field of new media and convergent technologies. I spend my days strategizing the creation of innovative browsing experiences for products distributed on mobile, broadband, iTV and other emerging platforms.

Experience

2/2008 – Currently Employed HUGELos Angeles, CA

Experience Lead

  • Clients served: ABC, Ascent Media, Dish, Disney, FX Networks, Kohler, and iVillage
  • Provides a leadership role in key stages of research, product definition, and interaction design
  • Leads the "Discovery" by conducting competitive audits, content audits, user research, & stakeholder interviews
  • Partners with senior clients to determine business goals, feature requirements, project phasing, and success metrics

4/2006 – 2/2008SchematicLos Angeles, CA

Senior User Experience Designer

  • Clients served: ABC, AOL, Oprah, South Park Studios, Target, Telemundo, and Turner Networks
  • Worked within a team-oriented environment, creating conceptual blueprints for cutting-edge, motion-oriented 2' and 10' interfaces
  • Defined functionality, content, navigation, and interaction models through motion tests, wireframes, site-maps, user flows, flowcharts, storyboards, and functional specifications

8/2005 – 3/2006 Zodeca (contract) Los Angeles, CA

Lead Designer/Information Architect

  • Developed user interfaces for database-driven websites and portals.
  • Created wireframes, mockups and design specifications that communicate the information and interaction design to the graphic designers.
  • Converted Photoshop compositions into fully optimized standards compliant XHTML and CSS layouts ready for seamless integration with ASP.net.

1/2005 – 6/2005 Genwax (contract) Los Angeles, CA

Information Architect

  • Redesigned and developed the front-end for a product-driven and seasonally updated transactional website.
  • Created sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts, and use case documentation
  • Led the creative staff by providing them with detailed design specifications
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/genwax/ (demo)

1/2004 – 7/2005 Passport Productions Los Angeles, CA

DVD and Web Producer

  • Designed and developed a promotional website and blog for a major poker tournament that is nationally syndicated on broadcast television
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to produce interactive menus and non-linear content on DVD
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/upc/ (demo)

11/2002 – 4/2003 DHIMA Institute of the Arts Los Angeles, CA

Multimedia Instructor

  • Taught a comprehensive web development course covering interaction, information design, usability, site architecture, optimization, branding, type, and color issues
  • Topics included: DHTML, HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Flash, and JavaScript
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/dhima (course syllabus)

2002 – 2003 New York State Center for School Safety New Paltz, New York

CD-ROM / Print / Web Designer

  • Produced, designed and animated a cross-platform video-driven CD-ROM used to teach high school students how to deal with violent situations
  • Designed the 4-color CD packaging and booklet and created the accessible website to promote the CD-ROM
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/psu (demo)

1997 – 2002 Electronic Hollywood, Inc New York, New York

Creative Director

  • Wrote a business plan that brought in a 500k angel investment to start a business that specialized in the production of web-based cartoons, games and interactive advertising
  • Clients served: Artisan Entertainment, Campbell Soup, Ericsson, HBO, Kraft, Miller Brewing Co., Miramax, MTV, New Line Cinema, Partnership for Drug Free America, Samsung, SonicNet, Sony Music, Tommy Hilfiger, World Opponent Network
  • Pitched projects, spoke at conferences, and worked the press to promote the company in original ways.
  • Directed and managed both an in-house and freelance staff on numerous interactive projects
  • Created nationally recognized industry firsts using rich-media technologies to convert old media branding into new media content
  • Wrote, produced, and directed the web-based episodic cartoon series turned animated feature film "CyberSlacker" produced entirely in Flash
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/ (Electronic Hollywood's portfolio)
  • http://www.ehollywood.net/cyberslacker/ (episodic cartoon)

1995 – 1996 Icon CMT New York, New York

Creative Director

  • Produced and managed content integration, interface design, animation, and music for an on-line, web-based magazine (WORD.com). WORD received national recognition for design and cutting-edge programming
  • Also served as creative director of corporate website development
  • Hired and supervised a staff of 5-10 full-time and freelance designers, animators, and programmers on a project-to-project basis

1994 – 1995 IBM White Plains, New York

Interface Designer

  • Conceptualized and produced graphic user interfaces for prototypes of electronic services such as video conferencing and catalog shopping

1993 – 2000 New York University’s ITP Program New York, New York

Multimedia Instructor

  • Taught courses called "Electronic Publishing" and "Web-based Animation" for the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University
  • Lectured on the development process for creating low-bandwidth presentations, cartoons, and games using Macromedia Director and Flash for distribution on the Internet and in fixed-format media

1993 Viacom new media New York, New York

Interface Designer

  • Conceptualized and designed a video-on-demand prototype for a joint-venture (with AT&T) interactive television experiment in Castro Valley, CA.
  • Produced and designed the overall look and feel of the interface for MTV's first CDROM prototype of the band Aerosmith by repurposing MTV rockumentary and music video footage into a non-linear structure

1992 – 1993 emi records New York, New York

Interactive Producer

  • Designed, animated, and programmed the first commercially released interactive press kit (IPK) for Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk CD digipack
  • This worldwide promo (on floppy disk) included sequenced samples, digitized video, hypertext, and animation

Education

Spring 1990; M.A. Interactive Telecommunications
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Tisch School of the Arts.

Spring 1988; B.A. Broadcast Communication Arts
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO. Graduate Cum Laude.