Work
Experience
Freelance
07.2002 – PresentDeveloping new business and fully managing projects with clients from conception through production.
Current clients include: New York City Ballet, ESPN The Magazine, Live Nation, Chabad at the University of Miami.
New York City Ballet · Freelance Designer
03.2009 – PresentDesigning print collateral, advertisements, program identities and signage for the Spring, Fall, and Nutcracker seasons.
ESPN The Magazine · Flash Consultant/Designer
10.2008 – PresentDeveloping rich media/interactive content and animating feature spreads and information graphics exclusively for subscribers. As a Flash consultant I have worked with ESPN’s Creative Director and members of their online publishing platform to determine what content they can produce online according to technical limitations and their biweekly publishing schedule.
Empax · Intern
05.2007 – 08.2007Managed full web site redesign for the Hide & Seek Foundation, resulting in a Google Grant for $10,000 of free Google advertising every month. Responsibilities included recreating information architecture, designing page templates, creating flash introduction, storyboarding animation, and participating in all meetings and client presentations.
Carregal Pease Design · Junior Designer
10.2005 – 10.2006Created collateral and final artwork for print and web applications. Developed and managed web sites utilizing Flash, html and css. Coordinated communication with freelance designers on web projects.
Education
The School of Visual Arts
08.2006 – 05.2008M.F.A. in Design
University of Miami
08.2001 – 05.2005B.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in Graphic Design
Minor in Music Media and Industry
Skills
Photoshop · Illustrator · InDesign · Quark
After Effects · Flash (with working knowledge of ActionScript 2)
XHTML · CSS · Dreamweaver · TextPattern (CMS/blogging platform)
Knowledge of Web Standards, video for the web, capabilities and limitations of current Web 2.0 technologies
Information Architecture Process (Sitemap/Wireframe/Content Organization/Interface Design)
Basic prototyping/mold making (materials and processes) · Silkscreening
Studio Recording/Engineering/Mixing · I play a mean guitar too!
Exhibitions
Pitch, SVA MFA Design Graduate Thesis Exhibition
SVA Gallery, New York City
Serious Fun
SVA Gallery, New York City
Dreams of Freedom
Studio Mezmor, New York City
AIGA Xposed ‘06 Statewide Juried Exhibition (catalogue)
Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville
Student Juried Art Exhibition (catalogue)
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
New! Exhibition
University of Miami · Creative Award Winner
Print Exchange (Spring)
University of Miami, Amity Art Foundation
Print Exchange (Spring and Fall)
University of Miami, Amity Art Foundation
Shift-Apple-Four Exhibition
University of Miami
Byte-Sized Exhibition
University of Miami
Awards &
Publications
Zeixs Logo 2
Feierabend Unique Books
Design Observer
Editor’s Post
Zeixs Websites 2
Feierabend Unique Books
Art Director’s Club 86th Annual Awards
Merit Award
Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Semi-Finalist
CMYK Magazine
Issue #37
Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
Rockport Publishers
Visual Opinion
SVA Student Publication · Vol. 13, Issue #4
Illy Magazine
Senti-Mentally, Issue #21
Zeixs Logotype Book
Feierabend Unique Books
AIGA Xposed ‘06
Statewide Juried Exhibition