My main tool-set:
Other tools I have used:
I have a working knowledge of all mainstream web-development technologies and am hands-on with front-end design technologies like CSS and XHTML. I am also capable of coding navigational and interactive Flash Actionscript 2.0 and am a certified Flash designer.
I am current with industry trends, ideas and methodologies.
August 2008 to ?
Art Director
I now work with the Health Solutions Group, part of The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.
December 2006 to April 2008
Senior Web Designer / Art Director
I was recently engaged with a company selling audio programs through the internet. For several months I acted as the lead creative/ IA and XHTML/CSS developer in a .NET conversion project, for the main company web site and 4 sister sites with over 1,000 items and hundreds of sales per day, using Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Photoshop and Flash.
I was involved in collaboration with the marketing staff, creating and managing the company’s various marketing initiatives in way of landing pages, banners and Flash presentations, as well as routine site maintenance, and art-direction of emails.
March 2005 - November 2006
Director of Marketing Communications
Director of Marketing & Communications of Clarity Consulting, a technology services firm in Chicago. My duties included media design such as web sites, multimedia and print, copywriting and strategic & tactical marketing. I initiated a company blog and wrote my own marketing-communications blog.
January 2002 to March 2005
Senior interactive designer / MarComm consultant /
Project manager
Under the name Mediactrics I have produced and created web sites, print-work and multimedia marketing presentations for small to large corporations and have acted as a marketing-communications consultant, creative director, senior designer, project manager, information architect and usability consultant. Other activities involved were copywriting, search-optimization, content-creation and technical supervision.
June 1999 to January 2002
Senior Flash - web designer / MarComm consultant
I created online marketing presentations for a startup company called Cyber-Marketing located in Phoenix, AZ. My duties were to conceive and implement Flash presentations and web sites for medium to large corporate clients. I led a five-person team of designers and ASP/SQL Server developers.
October 1991 to June 1999
MarComm assistant / Multimedia producer / Art director
Speedfam Corporation was an established semiconductor manufacturer with several international locations headquartered in Chandler, AZ. Under the direction of the Marketing Director, I was responsible for an extensive intranet, and for creating and implementing internal & external multimedia training CDs and video productions for many international trade shows, where I worked with programmers to display my work on large TV-walls. I created 3D animations and performed all video editing, CD authoring and HTML coding. I also acted as Art Director to outside advertising agencies.
July 1987 to October 1991
Video director / producer / editor
I produced and directed corporate video presentations in Phoenix, AZ for Turbo Productions. I wrote scripts, designed sets, rehearsed actors, directed camera-crews, edited video and audio and in general, supervised every person having something to do with the productions, sometimes as many as 50 people.