Experience
POSSIBLE (formerly Schematic), Creative Director/Manager of Motion Group 8/08-Currently
Lead team of visual and UX designers creating next-generation interactive television. Work closely with clients to develop products. Create design and animation for set-top boxes, touch screens, video games, commercials, Web sites and hand-held devices. Develop storyboards, mockups and prototypes. Manage staff and freelance After Effects and 3D animators, designers, UX leads, art directors, UX designers and editors on multiple projects. Work closely with user experience and engineering through all stages of product development. Clients include Cablevision, Comcast, Sony Playstation 4, Microsoft, Target, Dell, Bungie, Reuters and Mitsubishi Motors.
Fox Sports, Senior Broadcast Designer/Art Director
2/03-8/08
Designed graphics packages for two Super Bowls and four World Series. Art director on 2006 “NFL on FOX” package. Designer on 2004 MLB package. Created and managed daily show segment animation. Designed graphics for every sport on Fox, Fox Sports Networks and Fuel. Directed live shoots. Worked with Blur and Rezn8 to produce high-end 3D animation. Drew robots and mascot characters by hand.
Freelance, Art Director/Broadcast Designer
8/01-2/03
Created and animated graphics for major motion picture trailers. Wrote taglines and copy for theatrical trailers. Designed and animated main titles for Discovery Kids Channel, Current TV and the Game Show Network. Designed segments for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Created commerical graphics for Disney, Toyota, Boeing, Kawasaki and EarthLink spots. Worked with companies including Picture Mill,
New Wave and mOcean.
H Design, Graphic Designer
10/98-8/01
Developed and designed interactive television for Sony, Charter Cable and Liberate Technology. Created motion graphics for CBS and MTV. Concepted and wrote pitches for feature film main titles for Fox, DreamWorks, Paramount and Miramax.
Paramount Digital Design, Broadcast Designer
10/97-10/98
Designed and animated main titles for CBS, ABC and UPN. Designed UPN’s fall 1998 network package.
Awards
Emmy Award, 2005, Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design for “NFL on FOX Super Bowl XXXIX” Emmy Award Nomination, 2004, 2006, 2007 Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design
Emmy Award Nomination Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Media in the category of User Experience and Visual Design 2013- Possible
Key Art Award, 2004, First Place, Best Motion Graphics for “Ocean’s Twelve” Trailer
Education
California Institute of the Arts, BFA in Graphic Design, 1996
After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut and Cinema 4D