9. Proven ability to transform concepts into successful interactive reality.
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11. Career + Experience Timeline MH Creative Principal (UX, Visual Design, Product & Industrial Design) Microsoft Lead UX/ Product Designer Drugstore.com Site Director 1995 1995 1995 1995 1995 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2005 2005 2005 2005 2005 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 Napster Marketing Director Hanna – Barbera Manager, Classic Characters Marketing 28 Years Cumulative Experience
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13. Strong skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Dreamweaver, ImageReady / Fireworks, Quark, Acrobat, Flash, Visio and HTML/XHTML. Working command of Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS / XSLT, DOM and ASP technologies. Visual design expertise demonstrated through mockups and style guides.
14. Comfortable working knowledge of French, German & Russian; Rudimentary knowledge of Mandarin Chinese (I teach beginning Mandarin to lower school age kids on Sundays during school year)
15. Voting member of NATAS (Emmy), AMPAS (Oscar) and NARAS (Grammy) Academies; member of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists), Art Directors Club of New York and The Information Architecture InstitutePHOTOGRAPH: MARK HGUHES
17. Random House Germany Defined new product design (UX) information architecture strategy for the world’s largest and most well known publishing company.
18. Neiman-Marcus.com Product DesignerSite Redesign Redesigned client’s Internet site that was directly responsible for over $1.7M in sales after first three months, surpassing previous quarter’s sales by 225%
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20. Lead initial architecture and design of a pluggable content-importation tool for music (samples, metadata and cover art), design of the commerce model, credit-card authorization and price modeling experiences.
24. Managed the conceptualization, production and delivery of image branding and corporate identity; for several Windows Experience (WEX) teams including the Experience Design & Research site for Windows (http://xdr) as well as the ‘We do Windows” campaign.
30. Led team of 30 writers, designers and photo staff in supporting merchandising, marketing, and program-management team.
31. Set priorities and streamlined processes in a competitive, resource-challenged environment. For example, revamped digital photography studio below budget, cutting costs and increasing image quality. Rebranding Shown here: Out of Home Advertising,
33. Napster 1999 – 2001 Marketing Director, Client & Brand (yes, the kitty head logo)Product Designer, Client (PC & Mac) Say what you will about how Napster facilitated copyright violation on a massive scale (it had 60 million users at its zenith), but piracy was around well before Napster came along and has continued to thrive without it. Rather, Napster is of critical importance not only for inventing peer-to-peer technology, but also for forcing record labels to play ball and work with tech companies to make file-sharing practices in the digital music industry legal.
35. Hanna - Barbera Productions 1994 – 1996 Manager, Classic Characters Played key role in managing growth of the H-B division from $30 - $60 million and earnings from $5 million to $12 million in television program sales. Developed online presence for key Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network brands. Lead production of Corporate Identity, Character Reference Guides and style guides for Jonny Quest: The Movie, 35th Anniversary Flintstones redesign, Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast and the Boomerang Network. Hired and worked with MIS Manager to develop and implement company-wide intranet, which only three months following launch, became primary Internet site www.cartoonnetwork.com.
36. Hanna Barbera Flintstones 35th Anniversary Style Guide Art Director HB Business Card (Back) Hanna Barbera Prod. Cartoon Network1994 – 1996 Manager, Classic Characters Played key role in managing growth of the H-B division from $30 - $60 million and earnings from $5 million to $12 million in television program sales. Developed online presence for key Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network brands. Lead production of Corporate Identity, Character Reference Guides and style guides for Jonny Quest: The Movie, 35th Anniversary Flintstones redesign, Space Ghost Coast 2 Coast and the Boomerang Network. Hired and worked with MIS Manager to develop and implement company-wide intranet, which only three months following launch, became primary Internet site www.cartoonnetwork.com.
38. Boy Scouts of America BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CUB SCOUTS OF AMERICA 2009 NATIONAL PINEWOOD DERBY POSTER Concept Art DirectionCreative Direction
39. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION Website Concept, Creative Direction & Information Architecture Led team of 6
40. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA KIDS HEALTH GALAXY http://www.chop.edu/kidshealthgalaxy/index.html Branding & Website Concept, Creative Direction & Information Architecture Developed flow and architecture. Prepared and created storyboards. Supervised team of Flash animators. Client wanted a Jetson’s type feel (which I say we delivered) Besides,, I had some experience in that area… Led team of 4
