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Los Angeles, CA

Nicholas is a Los Angeles-based creative professional with over 11 years of industry experience. As the Visual Design Manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online, he manages over a dozen artists who are responsible for creating successful and popular Disney Parks sites, including DisneyParks.com, DisneyWorld.com, Disneyland.com, DisneyVacationClub.com and DisneyCruise.com. He wears multiple hats at Disney, and is responsible not only for managing the team, but also recruiting new talent, making resourcing and staffing decisions, initiating and cultivating vendor relationships and working as Art Director or UX Lead on larger internal projects.

Nicholas previously worked as an Art Director at Disney Family and a Senior Designer at The Warner Bros. Television Network. He holds an M.A. in Visual Media Arts ('99) from Emerson, and a B.S.J. in Journalism ('97)

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Experience

  • Manager, Visual Design
    Glendale, CA
    2008 - Present
    Disney Parks and Resorts Online

    • Manage team of over a dozen artists in Glendale and Orlando
    • Oversee freelance talent acquisition, e.g., designers and photographers
    • Initiate and cultivate third party vendor relationships
    • Oversee Photography needs for Walt Disney World website
    • Function as Art Director and UX Lead as needed on internal projects
    • Worked on redesigns of DisneyParks.com, DisneyWorld.com, Disneyland.com, DisneyVacationClub.com and DisneyCruise.com.

  • Art Director
    North Hollywood, CA
    2006 - 2008
    Disney Family

    • Creative Lead for Disney Family, Parentpedia and Wondertime brands
    • Managed and directed third party/vendor projects
    • Managed production artists and project schedules
    • Edited Videos using Final Cut Studio and After Effects
    • Assisted with art direction on remote video and photo shoots

  • User Experience Designer
    Santa Monica, CA
    2006 - 2006
    Sapient

    Clients: G4 Television, Harrah’s and Logitech

  • Senior Designer
    Burbank, CA
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2005
    The Warner Bros Television Network

    Designed special events microsites and watch-to-win promotion pages. Designed and wrote several weekly newsletters.

  • Freelance designer
    Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles
    2000 - 2001
    Self-employed

Education

  • M.A., Visual Media Arts (New Media)
    Boston, MA
    1998 - 2000
    Emerson College

  • Post-graduate internship - CNN International
    London, UK
    1998 - 1998
    Richmond University

  • B.S.J., Journalism
    Morgantown, WV
    1994 - 1997
    Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism, WVU

    Public Relations focus, Minor in English
    Graduated Suma Cum Laude with honors
    Kappa Tau Alpha Honor Society

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