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DESIGN EXPERIENCE:
Chapas Design, San Francisco, CA
Freelance Designer, Art Director
Ongoing
- Provide end-to-end Web site services, including concepting, design, UI, production, hosting, and site maintenance.
- Projects range from Web-based applications to strategic marketing campaigns to promotional sites.
- Clients include tech, consumer goods, agencies, B2E solutions, e-commerce, entertainers, and small businesses.
- Clients: Apple, Adobe, Johnson&Johnson's K-Y Brand, Walmart.com, Design Within Reach, TerraPass,
Exploratorium, Leapfrog, eLUXURY, Project Runway 4 Store, Patch&Associates, Williams-Sonoma, Jess Imports,
Dogtown
Development, Hotel Biron Wine Bar, Connexed.com, Commercial Fishermen of America.
Apple, Cupertino, CA
Graphic Designer
9/04 – 5/05, 8/05 - 2/06, 7/06 - 12/06
- Online and print designer for Product Marketing team's product, launch, seminar, event, and retail initiatives.
- Projects included Web-based direct marketing campaigns via promotional emails, landing pages, and postcards.
- Designed and coded emails, landing pages, and external partner emails by preparing and optimizing for blasts.
- Internal clients included: .mac, education, pro markets, retail, product marketing, product launch, iTunes.
Grey Direct, San Francisco, CA
Interaction Designer
1/04 – 9/04
- Collaborated with agency Studio to provide online production and support for interactive advertising campaigns.
- Projects included Web-based direct marketing campaigns, promotional emails, banner ads, and landing pages.
- Completed and produced finished designs by re-sizing banners, preparing and optimizing images for HTML pages.
- Clients: Gateway, Wells Fargo, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Nokia, McAfee, Wellpoint, SKYY, San Francisco Zoo.
Smart Design, New York, NY
Graphic Designer
5/03 – 9/03
- Intern support for graphics team project planning, product branding, identity, strategy, and production.
- Client projects include Hewlett-Packard strategy, Briggs & Riley Travelware branding and presentation
drawings, OXO International bowl graphics, Shell presentation images, and Moving Comfort photo books.
- Assist internal business and marketing initiatives with templates, press collateral, and graphics standardization documents.
Televoke, Inc. (now de Carta), San Francisco, CA
Graphic Designer
9/00 - 7/02
- Created and managed aesthetics, graphics, and navigation of corporate telematics/GPS tracking Web site.
- Managed graphic design, production, and UI of customer branded partner sites, such as Daimler Chrysler, Sigem.
- Designed and produced sales kits and marketing print collateral for new software product.
- Supported development team with HTML prototypes and front-end design.
Citysearch, Boston, MA
Web Designer
3/00 - 8/00
- Designer and coder for local arts and entertainment portal that provides in-depth local content and services.
- Managed overall site aesthetics and created national guides and features.
- Re-structured site workflow process in order to improve overall site production and efficiency.
MUSEUM & GALLERY EXPERIENCE:
San Francisco Design Museum prototype, San Francisco, CA
Acquisitions Volunteer, sports design exhibit
7/02 – 5/03
- Built relationships with and sourced acquisitions from 20 leading U.S. and international design firms.
- Submissions: IDEO, fuseproject, BMW DesignworksUSA, Lunar, Smart Design, The North Face, newdealdesign.
- Coordinated and oversaw inaugural exhibit acquisitions, committee duties, operations, volunteers.
- Served as a board member to drive the museum's mission, programming, and fundraising.
Hurst Gallery, Boston, MA
Gallery Manager and Project Coordinator
8/99 -12/99
- Organized commercial gallery exhibitions to sell and appraise non-western art and antiquities.
- Re-designed Web site to build gallery awareness and drive online and offline sales.
- Responsible for public relations, sales, digital archive, client database, and managing two sales associates.
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Intern, Education Department
Summer 1998
- Assisted Urban Encounters exhibition on NYC collective artists groups, such as ABC No Rio, Guerrilla Girls.
- Created posters and press release kits for public programs. Edited museum Web site.
Exit Art, New York, NY
Intern
Summer 1998
- Prepared and catalogued traveling performance art exhibition, Endurance.
- Researched future exhibitions and assisted with openings, events, slide registry for alternative art space.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Intern, Film and Video Department
Summer 1997
- Research assistant for Andy Warhol Film Project: Screen Tests, Catalogue Raisonee.
- Conducted bibliographic research on Warhol's films, articles, artifacts, and interview transcription.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Volunteer, Education Department
Summer 1996
- Conducted projects about Warhol for museum visitors through Public Programs’ "Weekend Factory."
- Researched special exhibition, Ten From Leo Castelli.
EDUCATION:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 1999
Major: Fine Arts, Combined Media and Installation
Cornell Rome Program, Palazzo Lazzaroni, Italy
Maud Alice Palmer Scholarship, Dean's List
SKILLS:
Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, InDesign, HTML, BBedit
Microsoft Office Suite, Proficient on PC and Mac platforms. Proficient in conversational Italian.
AWARDS AND TALKS:
Oracle ThinkQuest Education Foundation Young Professionals Panel, October 2006, San Francisco, CA
HOW Magazine International Design Annual, April 2004, Merit Award for Smart Design IDSA "Cool Map"
ACTIVITIES:
Taproot, Creativity Explored Volunteer, AIGA Studio 5 Program, SFMOMA Matches Program, LooseKnit design group
skiing, soccer, tennis, rock climbing, PLC
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