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Senior Art director with a BFA in visual arts and more than 10 years experience in interactive design. Specializing in editorial magazine site design and contextually integrated advertising campaigns.

Publication Experience:

ELLE.com, ELLEdecor.com, Caranddriver.com, Roadandtrack.com, Cycleworld.com, Premiere.com, Womansday.com, Popphoto.com, Forbestraveler.com, Billboard.com, Thehollywoodreporter.com, Editorandpublisher.com, Adweek.com, Brandweek.com, Photodistrictnews.com, Backstage.com

Brand Experience:

Macys, Starbucks, Mercedes Benz, Nikon, JCPenney Teen, Olay, Covergirl, Victoria's Secret, Neiman Marcus, Burberry, Tresemme, Aveeno, Rasinets, Weight Watchers, Febreze, Sperry, 1800-Contacts, Kings Hawaiian, Mvelopes, Mohawk Flooring, Tourisme Montreal, Caesarstone, Circa Jewelry

Awards & Recognition:

  • 2006 Forbes.com Presidents Award
  • 2005 Folio Magazine Ozzie Awards Gold Award for best web site design, kbbonline.com
  • 2005 The Web Marketing Association Webaward for outstanding achievement in website development, PDNonline.com
  • 2004 Folio Magazine Ozzie Awards Silver Award for best web site design, Archlighting.com
  • 2003 VNU Business Media President's Award winner of Innovation and Creativity Category,

    • Specialties

    Creative Direction, Concepting, Strategy, Branding, Interactive Design, Information Architecture, Print Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML, CSS

    experience

    Senior Art Director - Hachette Filipacchi Media US

    September 2007 – Present
    • Created and managed editorial and marketing design projects of websites: Elle.com, Womansday, Ellegirl.com, Premiere.com, Caranddriver.com, roadandtrack.com, ELLEDecor.com.
    • Managed the work-flow of the digital design group, a staff of four art directors.
    • Contributed to a more than 150% increase in marketing projects between 2009 and 2011

    Art Director - ForbesTraveler.com

    April 2006 – September 2007
    • Worked with Forbes Traveler editor and Forbes.com CEO to plan, design and build a new online property for Forbes.com featuring editorial content and travel tools for luxury travelers.
    • Managed an art staff that included a photo editor, assistant photo editor, and a design production assistant.

    Senior Designer - VNU Business Media

    February 2000 – April 2006
    • Created information architecture, site Designs and produced (front-end development, HTML, CSS and Javascript) for several trade publication editorial sites including billboard.com, backstage.com photodistrictnews.com, thehollywoodreporter.com and others.
    • Designed promotional editorial sections and advertising microsites.

    volunteer work

    Designer and Developer - Taproot Nonprofit Organization

    June 2007 – August 2007
    • Created the website design for a private school for under privileged children. Manhattan Country School
    • Front end development work: Built a website for an after school program for under privileged children in Harlem. Brotherhood Sister-Sol.

    education

    University of Oregon - BFA, Visual Design

    1995 – 1998

    Activities and Societies: Flux Magazine