General info
Interactive Designer & UX Specialist
San Francisco, CA
I am an interactive designer and user experience specialist. I have over 11 years experience in commercial interactive and print design. I started taking on professional projects in 2001 and also completed a BFA in Interactive Design and Game Development. I have worked in a variety of positions encompassing full-time, contract, and freelance positions. I have a strong background in video game related properties, brand management, and interactive design. I have built interfaces and created design strategies for well known clients such as Activision, Gamebattles, Major League Gaming, Petroglyph Games, Discovery Channel, Machineworks Northwest, and Hands-On Mobile. But my industry experience expands beyond video games:I have had the pleasure of working with many top companies including BMW, Eli Lilly, Takeda, Boost Mobile, Stride Gum, and hundreds of small businesses nationally. I also write and speak on design and user experience. You can find my writing on Six Revisions, Spyre Studios, Web Designer Depot, Smashing Magazine and OneExtraPixel.
Experience
San Francisco,CA
Oct 2012 - Present
Chief Product Designer
Leading the product design, branding and interface at a legal start-up aiming to disrupt the legal industry in an awesome way. Basically, Linked-In for attorneys but much more...Trust me, its cool.
San Francisco,CA
Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
UI/UX Lead Designer
Rivet Games is a social gaming company located in San Francisco, CA.
As UI/UX Lead Designer my responsibilities include:

- Managing all UI Strategy, Pipeline and Production
- Producing Low-Fi and High-Fi Wire-frames and Mock-Ups for Multiple social and mobile properties.
- Designing Logos, Brand approaches and overall based collateral for all games.
- Managing UX Strategy, Analysis, and Development on all game projects.

Games worked on include FooPets, PetTales, and two unannounced titles.
Atlanta, GA
Nov 2004 - Feb 2011
Founder / Managing Principal
Anthem is a leading Atlanta design and interactive firm that works in marketing, web development, and all other functional design and technical media. The company's core disciplines and approach are centered around functional creative services with a focus on excellence in design and imbuing interactive media and communications with effective usability.

Abridged Client List:
* Activision
* Activision Value
* All Wheels Storage
* Automated Lifestyles
* Ballast Point Ventures
* Becker Multimedia
* Beaconcast Media Companies
* Blue Heat Games
* BMW of North America
* Cerkitek
* Children's Restoration Network
* Cosmic Deli
* Craig Anderson
* Creative Blinds & Decor
* Dauhaus
* Digital Phenom
* Doostang
* Eli Lilly and Company

* Elite Estates
* European Auto Vault
* Finesse Interiors
* Fulton County Republican Party
* Gamebattles
* Griffin Construction Group
* Guardoc
* Hoops City Basketball Camp
* Irish-American Republicans
* Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Company
* Laugh Til' It Heals Productions
* Law Offices of Linda B. Borsky
* Lazy Boy Saloon
* Major League Gaming
* Metro Atlanta Financial Group
* Mint Wheels
* New Castle Homes
* North Fulton Smiles

* Vintage Autoworks
* One Note Shy Recording
* Paperdoll Band
* Petroglyph Games
* Rachel's Pawssion for Pets
* Royal Caribbean International LTD.
* Royal Custom Cabinets
* Sakura of Charleston
* Sandra Benton
* Scholar Strategies
* Shaw Science Partners
* Sino Sustainable Energy Association
* Style Avenue Urban Clothing
* Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.
* Theresa Holstein M.D.
* Trip Mobile
* WXP ("The Whole Experience")
Atlanta, GA - San Francisco,CA
Feb 2008 - Present
Designer
Freelance clients include BMW, US Navy, Major League Gaming, Discovery Channel, Royal Caribbean, Eli Lilly, Takeda Pharma, Boost Mobile, and Stride Gum.

The main freelance services in design I offer are:

Design:

Interface Design
Website Design
Logo Design
Print and Collateral Design
Motion Graphics
Video Editing and Compositing

Brand & UX Consulting:

Brand Strategy
Naming
User Experience
Usability

Development:

Actionscript 3
AIR
PHP
HTML/CSS
Wordpress
osCommerce
Javascript
Atlanta, GA
Feb 2004 - May 2007
Creative Director
Gamebattles is the world leader in Online gaming competition.
Acquired by Major League Gaming in 2006.
Developed custom site skins, advertising, banner graphics, and handled media and creative developments.
Tasked with design and visual development of the site re-design for acquisition from Major League Gaming.
Seattle, WA
Jul 2006 - Sep 2006
Brand Management and Print Designer
Activision/ WXP
This was an in house position with WXP and Activision.

My responsibilities included:
Managing advertisers and paintball brands with the studio on Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball PS2, Xbox and Mobile.
Booklet, Poster and promotional design
Managing on-site tournaments and promotional events.
Designing UI and in-game skins for the mobile game
Seattle, WA
Jul 2007 - Jan 2008
Branding Specialist
Activision Value
Worked on marketing collateral, pitches and promotional event management for multiple AAA titles.
Seattle,WA
Jul 2006 - Nov 2006
Quality Assurance Lead
WXP "The Whole Experience"
Lead Quality Assurance and Testing analysis on Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAX'D (PS2)

Managed a team of game-testers and bug tracking on the PS2 and Mobile versions.
Seattle, WA
Jul 2006 - Jun 2007
Production Designer
Paintball Players Productions
Worked for Paintball Players Productions on multiple projects. Responsibilities included creating mock ups, media presentations, pitches, all types of graphic collateral for distribution as well as consulting on visual and graphics developments for the company.
Education
Savannah, GA
Feb 2004 - May 2008
Interactive Design and Game Development
During my time at SCAD, I started my company in Sophomore year while in school. Over the breaks from school I worked at multiple internships and freelance jobs. I was also awarded the Entelechy Award for outstanding website design in 2008 from SCAD.

Since graduating, I have spoken on multiple career and entrepreneurship panels at SCAD and had three speaking engagements regarding entrepreneurship and design.
Skills
Web & Programming Skills
Expert :

Actionscript 2 & 3
PHP
HTML/CSS
JavaScript
Wordpress
jQuery


Intermediate:

Objective C
Java SE 5
ASP.NET
C#
Expression Engine
Drupal
Software Skills
Expert :

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe After Effects

Intermediate:

Maya
3D Studio Max