Resumé
Summary
Web Developer / Creative Director with expertise on both design and coding. I am trained as a designer but have the heart of a geek. I’m interested in both design or coding projects for developing or consulting on. I have keen interest in deploying WordPress on websites.
I was a co-founder of Mostasa, a web design company known mostly for their work on the last two James Bond films. Mostasa’s clients include MGM, Warner Bros, FOX, Universal, Adobe, MTV, DoTV and Apple. Prior to Mostasa, I worked for MGM as an Art Director designing movie posters. Currently I am employed at Mammoth Advertising in New York.
Some key accomplishments include being featured in Designinteract.com, Adobe.com, and Apple.com, Designing Websites for Every Audience book, Inside The Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story book and in How Magazine and winning awards in both print and web design.
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Specialties
PHP, Cross-Platform W3C Web Standards Code, CSS, Javascript, XHTML, XML, Flash / Actionscript, Dreamweaver, GoLive, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, QuickTime and Mac Geekery.
Experience
Art Director/Developer
Mammoth Advertising
Internet Industry
2006 – Present (3 years)
Conceptualizing and designing websites for high profile projects in the film industry.
Working primarily in Flash, XHTML and PHP.
Clients include:
Lionsgate - Websites for Slow Burn, Fido, Bug. Banner campaigns for Pride, Slow Burn
Warner Bros - Website concepts for Music and Lyrics
MGM - Websites for Home of the Brave
Sony - Banner campaign for Volver
Weinstein Co. - Movie sites for Arthur and the Invisibles, Hannibal Rising
Miramax - Academy website for The Queen
Bravo - Banner campaign for Top Design
Showtime - Banner campaign for The Tudors
Fox Searchlight - Banner campaign concepts for Waitress
Sundance Channel - Design concepts for The Green
Web Developer/Consultant/Blogger
All Forces
Internet Industry
2003 – 2006 (3 years)
Contract work with diverse industry clients to create original design and programming of websites, banners, logos and interactive flash.
Clients include:
Apple Computer - Site redesign concepts and prototypes
Warner Bros. - Developed an XML/PHP system for the WB Academy Awards promo site.
MGM - Up-keep of the jamesbond.com website
Urban Youth Workers Institute - Designed original art for website and developed a personalized publishing system (PHP/MySQL) for the client
Mosaic - Currently designing a web standards compliant website along with a content management system in PHP/MySQL and lots of Flash Based actionscripting.
Lead Web Developer
Mosaic
Non-Profit Organization Management Industry
June 2005 – Present (1 year 1 month)
In charge of designing and developing the main website for Mosaic as well as it’s smaller related websites. Some features in these projects include design, writing the css and javascript, developing the design into a usable wordpress theme, a custom ecommerce solution, an audio and a video podcast, and providing cms capabilities through wordpress.
Co-Founder / Web Developer
Mostasa (New Media Design)
Co-Founder / Lead Web Designer
Mostasa New Media Design
http://mostasa.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees)
Internet Industry
2000 – 2003 (3 years)
Integral founding member of successful new media design company. Responsibilities included taking projects from concept to delivery, maintaining client relationships, project management, personnel management and marketing. Performed web design, web application development, banners, and identity.
Projects include:
MGM - Jamesbond.com, Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, Bulletproof Monk, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, Jeepers Creepers I & II, Deuces Wild, Ronin, Thomas Crown Affair, Stigmata, Mod Squad, Mgm.com redesign
Warner Bros. - Two Weeks Notice, The Majestic, Murder By Numbers, 2002 and 2003 Academy Sites
FOX - Like Mike, Moulin Rouge, Red Curtain Trilogy, Batman Special Edition, Sexy Beast, One Hour Photo, Dude Where’s My Car
Universal - The Emperor’s Club, Scorpion King, A Beautiful Mind
Adobe - Flash presentation, Adobe branded James Bond site, Demo site
MTV - The Bunker Project
FusionOne - Flash demo
DoTV - Design concepts
Swell.com - Site redesign
Web Designer
MGM
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees)
Motion Pictures and Film Industry
1998 – 2000 (2 years)
One of two in-house developers at MGM. The VP of online marketing was so happy with us that we became the “in-house” web department. Before this, all work was done through vendors.
Art Director
MGM
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees)
Motion Pictures and Film Industry
1997 – 1997 (less than a year)
Art Director and Graphic Designer. Collaborated with a team to design the official marketing of the MGM films. This included poster, banner, bus-side, billboards and newspaper ads.
Art Director
Dawn Patrol
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees)
Motion Pictures and Film Industry
1995 – 1997 (2 years)
Part of a small team of art directors in a theatrical and home video design house. Responsible for designing promotional material for movies. i.e. posters, video covers, video promos, logos and annual reports for movie companies.
Education
Otis/Parsons College of Art and Design
Graphic Design
1992 – 1995
Interests
emerging technology, web 2.0, web standards
Honors and awards
- Served as a consultant for the Adobe Creative Suite Software.
- Speaker at Internet World Conference session in 2002.
- Featured at Designinteract.com - “Hollywood and the Internet”.
- Featured at Adobe.com in detailed interview about Mostasa and it’s founders in 2000.
- Featured at Apple.com in article about Mostasa and it’s founders in 2000.
- Featured in web design book “Designing Websites for Every Audience”.
- Featured in book “Inside The Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story”.
- Featured in How Magazine article “The Web At The Movies”.
- Key Art Awards Winner “Bronze” in the internet marketing category for JamesBond.com.
- Won Silver and Bronze awards at the Florida Magazine Association for a magazine layout.
- Interviewed at MGM for a spanish speaking TV show in Univision’s Control in 1999.