SKILLS

As a creative leader, I love making beautiful things with people. I am a fun visionary innovator who enjoys the collaborative process of leading, designing, and problem solving. With 20+ years of experience as a design thinker, my passion is in delivering influential visual designs, experiences & content. My work as a creative and visual designer spans a variety of impactful digital expressions; from disruptive campaigns, marketing and branding, visual effects, commercial, ad campaigns, interactive installations and events. I am known for lighting up a room and bringing creative work and production to the next level.

Digital: Highly proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, Flame, Fire & Smoke / Autodesk, Adobe After Effects, Nuke, C4D, Premiere

Creative: Creative Direction, Social Media Strategy, Content Creation, Integrated Advertising, Design Direction, Visual Design, Motion Graphics, Editorial, Art Direction, Storyboards, Design Style Frames, Content Strategy, Brand Building, Post Production

EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Freelance
Social Media Director, Creative Direction, Visual Design & Art Direction
Various Studios: SMD, Core, Ntropic, Hydralux, Opera Parallel

Core Studio 2013 – 2020
Creative Director, Visual Designer, Design Director
Joined the team to lead and direct a wide array of visual content for multiple platforms and experiences. Directed teams of artists, designers animators and editors on various national and international jobs in advertising, brand marketing and entertainment. Designed and produced a range of broadcast and web content for global brands including Salesforce, Adobe, TMobile, HBO, Workday, Apple, Citrix, and Nike.

Bonfire Labs  San Francisco  2012 - 2013
Creative Director and Art Director. Responsible for pitching and concepting, creating style frames and storyboards, as well as leading teams of motion graphic, 2D & 3D production artists through the design and post process.

Eveo EvLab, Inc.  San Francisco 2010 – 2011
Creative and Senior Art Director overseeing the design process from conception through completion. Directed teams of CG and motion graphics artists. CG & Motion Graphics  that ported to a variety of platforms including interactive, mobile, augmented reality, and web.

Spy Post  San Francisco  2004 – 2009
Senior Visual Designer and Design Director. Responsibilities ranged from creative direction, compositing, design, art direction, storyboarding and pre visualization, visual effects supervision and execution. At Spy I worked on design and production on many commercial campaigns, advertising and branding, and feature films.

Ntropic  San Francisco  2000 – 2004
Creative Partner, Visual Designer and Director at Ntropic, involved in early concept design through execution and finish of jobs spanning a range from broadcast design to heavy 2D and 3D computer graphics. Responsible for integrating creative execution with post production teams, developing visual content and design. Films include “Underworld” & “Matrix”

Radium  San Francisco / Los Angeles  1996 – 2000
Creative Director, Designer, Art Director
Recruited from Cutters in Chicago to join the creative team opening Radium in San Francisco. Extensive visual effects supervision, design and post production experience. Films include “Spawn,” “What Dreams May Come.” Music videos for Madonna, Metallica, Will Smith, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, among others. Responsible for creating some of the signature effects and branding design for the company as it evolved.

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EDUCATION

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago  
M.F.A. in Art & Technology, Computer Graphics

San Jose State University
B. A.  in CADRE - Computers in Art, Design, Research, and Education.
Specialized studies in Animation and Film, Graphic Design, and Video.
Magna cum Laude, President’s Scholar and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

University of California at Berkeley
Art, Design, and Computer Graphics