PROFILE

Award-Winning Senior Creative Professional with over 10 years hands-on experience in the areas of all facets of full life cycle development of corporate and small business web sites. I create an elegant balance between form and function to achieve clear communication and a desirable user experience in all projects including: interactive presentations, advertising campaigns, information design, brand identity development and more. A good web designer is both the artist and the programmer and knows the benefits and limitations of art and functionality. What's unique about me is that you will save money hiring a senior creative professional who understands your business and marketing objectives rather then paying for a team of junior people. My Creative Direction helped win awards for IBM and Empire Blue.   

EXPERIENCE   

Lumis Media           6/2001 -present                                                       

Senior Creative Professional and Vector Illustrator

Corporate web design, brand identity packages, interactive presentations, and advertising campaigns for employees of Dell, Amazon, Microsoft, DemandDirect LLC, eSecure Data, Shell and many more.  

www.lumismedia.net

IBM                                          6/2000 – 5/2001                         

Award-winning Web Creative Director/ GUI Designer

Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Office - One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10048

• Hands-on Creative Direction of Provider Online Services. Screenshot
• Implemented a B2B solution that was one of the first successful Internet applications to give physicians the ability to manage claims online.
• Pursued ideas for accessing data in legacy systems that resulted in changing the time to adjudicate a claim from days to seconds. The work was produced in months rather than the traditional cycle of two to three years.
• Worked in a team comprising fifty people and five vendors.
• Designed user interface and the look and feel of the Provider Portal. Led the front end team and worked closely with the backend team to make sure the look and feel was consistent when the dynamic content was generated.
• Managed graphic designers, JavaScript writers, and HTML coders.
• Created wireframes, style guides and coding standards.
• Design of screen layouts for www.MerrillLynch.com, Nexxt Health and www.ciscosystems.com.
• Designed multi-media presentations and gave demonstrations of the application in front of an audience of vendors and business executives alongside my supervisor, the assistant VP of Empire's IT division. Sample PowerPoint presentation
• Interfaced with business, marketing and IT software development professionals and executives to achieve a well-rounded web application solution

• CMP Media's InformationWeek 500 - Cited for Innovative Use of Information Technology
• World Wide Web Health Award - E-Commerce.
• Web Marketing Association's Awards - Standard of Excellence
• Business Insurance Best of The Web Awards - Best of Show
• International Association of Webmasters and Designers - Golden Web Award
• International Web Page Awards - Certificate of Creative Achievement

Time Inc.                                              4/2000 - 5/2000                         New York, NY

Department of Online Promotions – 1271 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY

Freelance Art Director

Designed online promotions including  animated banners and web page templates for dozens of magazines including Mutual Funds, Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment magazines.  http://www.timeinc.com

Grey Interactive                                     3/2000 - 4/2000                                    New York, NY

111 5th Ave, New York, NY

Freelance Art Director

Interfaced with producers, creative director, and developers to achieve superior design solutions. Designed web page templates for Whitehall-Robins websites such as Advil, Fibercon,  Ambesol, and Primatene. http://www.greyinteractive.com/

Lorinowicki & Assoc.               1/2000 - 3/2000                New York, NY

Freelance Web Art Director/Chief Web Architect

New website design and development using HTML and JavaScript. Responsible for all coding and web graphics; Web Architecture; Maintaining website. Continued periodic maintenance.

www.painted-words.com

Access Style                                        10/1999 - 4/2000                          New York, NY

Freelance Art Director/Chief Web Architect

• Art Director for multimedia e-commerce fashion company. 
• Art Director of digital photo shoots and chief photo-editor
• HTML standards developed and implemented web graphics
• Design of animated online promotions
• Creating multiple hand-drawn illustrations used for icons and animations
• Training employees in PhotoShop 5.0, ImageReady 2.0, Intershop 3.0.
• Developed and implemented HTML standards and Graphic libraries
• Site partnered  with Twist Magazine, Seventeen Magazine and Jump Magazine.

New York Film Academy                         2/1999 - 10/1999                      New York , NY

Freelance Art Director/ Chief Web Architect

• Design of the International Film school web site- 30 world-wide offices
• hand-coding each page using HTML and JavaScript
• provided technical support for Macintosh platform
• designing full-page ads for Premiere Magazine

Tradescape                             1/1999  - 2/1999                             New York , NY

Freelance Web Designer

Responsibilities included: design of web page templates and preparation of web-ready graphics.

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute         1/1998 - 8/1998                         Troy, NY

3D animation and Leadership/Management

Mastered 3D modeling using Softimage 3D on Silicon Graphics workstation.
Stephen Covey Leadership training and interpersonal communication courses. 4.0 grade.

www.rpi.edu

SUNY Albany                      9/1993 - 6/1998                           Albany, NY

Bachelor of Arts  Degree - Double Major- Cum Laude

1        Departmental Art Major major (requires 24 extra credits beyond standard Art major requirement of 36) Studied fine arts- painting, photography, lithography, drawing, graphic design, computer art, etc.

2        Psychology Major

www.albany.edu

Oxford University                             8/1995 - 8/1996                                    Oxford, England, UK

Psychology and Art

Studied at Oxford University in Oxford, England for 3 terms. Received A+ grades. Excellent references. www.ox.ac.uk

School of Visual Arts              6/1993 - 9/1993                          New York, NY

Courses in the digital graphic design using the following programs:
Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker and Freehand.  www.sva.edu

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Design: Graphic design for print and web, web programming, information architecture, wire frame design, interactive presentations, information design for charts and graphs, pre-press/print production, flash, vector illustration, typography, promotional advertisements, flash animation and web design, GUI, PDF, video production and photo retouching.

Creative: Art and creative direction, brand identity-from logo design to advertising concepts, character development, effective marketing campaigns, painting, illustration, life drawing with excellent technical ability.

Programming Languages: Expert Hand-coder in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Flash Action script.

PROGRAMS

References available upon request