Summary

• Seeking a senior or lead design position within a company that values both design excellence, and my unique, cross-discipline skill set in the creation of visually elegant and compelling interactive experiences.
• Classically trained artist with extensive experience as a cross-disciplined designer in the areas of visual, interaction, and architecture design for web sites and desktop applications
• Demonstrated ability in delivering the creative direction and vision and executing on a solution through all phases of the design process.
• Highly skilled at transforming abstract concepts into elegantly seamless and innovative solutions that meet both design and business objectives
• Non-linear narrative approach to design solutions in order to help lead users through a complex process/system
• Able to clearly articulate design goals as well as design principles used to achieve design objectives to non-design audiences in order to get buy-in
• Great at collaborating with other designers and cross-functional team members
• Experienced in mentoring and inspiring other designers
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Skills Experience

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Art Teacher

• Design class curriculum, objectives, material requirements,
• Class descriptions for PR.
• Coordinate schedule within existing time frames for school wide multi disciplinary classes.
• Propose new class to cover areas currently not offered.

Classes taught

• Advanced oil painting
• Painting for the Terrified beginning oil painting class
• Painting on Aluminum
• Painting on the iPad ,

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UI Architect

• UI Architect for their entire product line.
• Creating prototypes and simulators of the underlying technology which involved incorporating biological algorithms for a network storage.
• Designed dashboard Architecture, Look and Feel

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Senior Visual Designer

• Lead visual designer for the Java Desktop System, Sun's premier Linux desktop solution. Brought in to get project back on track both from a schedule and design success perspective. In 3 months, redesigned all components and widgets. Art directed outside vendor to kick-start the creation of a set of Sun-branded icons for desktop applications.
• Looking Glass - Lead and sole visual and product designer collaborating with the inventor/software engineer on conceptual models for navigation in a 3D environment. Received one patent with three additional patents pending.
• Lead visual designer for the startup process for the Java Desktop System, which includes login, welcome, and locked screens.

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Senior Associate / Lead Visual Designer

• Helped set up a new media lab in San Francisco
• Established standards and templates for internal and external deliverables

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Senior Information Architect / UI Designer

• Neuromedia Inc - Lead Interaction / Interface designer for a web based application that use artificial intelligence to provide customer service and virtual sales reps for e-commerce sites
• Organic Online - Lead Information Architect / UI Designer for a proposal to completely redesign the web-based interface for a port of the Jamis Timecard Application.
• Organic Online Senior Information Architect / Creative Lead for the complete redesign of the corporate intranet which spans offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Detroit, London, and Brazil.
• Brodia.com Lead Information Architect / UI Designer for the 1.0 release of an entirely web-based financial transaction manager designed to facilitate e-commerce.
• Cisco Systems Consultant on Functional Specification and Lead UI designer for an intranet-based software distribution application written entirely in Java.

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Co-founder/UI Architect

• Designed cross-platform look-and-feel that was the basis for all application interfaces.
• Created and designed Light Show, a Java-based presentation application. This included defining all aspects of functionality and interaction design as well as all visual design for the user interface. James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language, called it the most beautiful, original, interface he had seen.
• Visual design and interaction design for Quantum, a four-dimensional database application.
• Nominated for the prestigious status of Distinguished Engineer by Dr. Alan Baratz Ph.D., President, JavaSoft. Sun Microsystems, Inc. for outstanding work in interface design.

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Senior Visual Designer

• Lead visual interface and interaction designer for IFC Constructor, one of Netscape's most respected products.
• Lead GUI designer for Netscape's IFC. Lead visual designer for Constellation, at the time one of Netscape's most important and strategic products.
• Design contributor for Communicator 4.0.Lead visual designer on JFC, a joint development with Sun Microsystems of Sun's next-generation user interface toolkit.
• Lead / sole UI designer for the first release of the Java Swing Set

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Lead Visual Designer

• Responsible for creating new company's visual identity which included logo, website and all collateral.
• Created a web-based cross-platform, cross-client user interface.
• Sole interface/interaction designer of Constructor, a Java-based drag asnd drop user interface builder.
• Interface/interaction design for several demo applications.

My work was credited as the main reason for the interest in and successful acquisition of Netcode by Netscape Communications. This work was released by Netscape as IFC

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Lead Illustrator

• Lead illustrator in the internal visual design group for a major pharmaceutical company
• Lead on the international launch of Topamax, a new medication for epilepsy.
• Board of Directors and the Executive Art Director that it was the most enthusiastic response from a client they had ever received.

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Art / Film Director

• Wrote, directed, edited The Tabernacle, a thirty-minute pilot for a music program.
• Wrote, directed, edited The Masterpiece, a thirty-minute fictional narrative about the creative process.
• Designed and created a multimedia stage set for Ancestors, an alternative music group on the Manhattan Center's label.
• Wrote, directed, edited a music video for Ancestors that was broadcast throughout the NY metropolitan area.

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Instructor

• Taught advanced classical painting techniques in oil.
• According to the school director, my students' exhibition at the end of the year was the best she had seen in her 20 years there.

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Exhibiting Fine Artist

• Established a national reputation as a fine artist.