Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Executive Creative Director at WhittmanHart Interactive
- Founder at Professional Monkey Keyboard Operator (pmko.net)
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- Creative Director, Flash Development at WhittmanHart Interactive
- Founder at whatco
- Technical Director at Tribal DDB San Francisco
- Senior Flash Developer / Content Engineer at Macys.com
- Education
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- Academy of Art University
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Chris Colinsky’s Experience
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Executive Creative Director
WhittmanHart Interactive
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Currently oversee the entire creative department for WhittmanHart LA which includes traditional creative, user experience and client-side interactive development (Flash/Flex, HTML/JavaScript).
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Founder
Professional Monkey Keyboard Operator (pmko.net)
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
My professional blog site. Used to convey my opinions on interactive technology and share knowledge about interactive development.
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Creative Director, Flash Development
WhittmanHart Interactive
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 6 months)
As the Creative Director, Flash Development, I manage the overall Flash/Flex based interactive effort of WhittmanHart Interactive. The role I play is really split into two parts; Management and Development. My development duties include research, code library development, defining standards, prototyping of new functionality and dev environment admin. The management side encompasses career development, education, resource planning, pitch, business development, project planning and operations of the development group.
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Founder
whatco
(Internet industry)
December 1998 — December 2007 (9 years 1 month)
whatco’s primary focus was interactive applications, web site development and video design. Technologies such as Flash/Flex, AJAX, PHP and MySQL were used to provide clients with robust solutions that would work with standard low cost hosting providers. The company consisted of a tight group of world class professionals that would come together to do various projects.
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Technical Director
Tribal DDB San Francisco
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)
As the Technical Director my responsibilities included managing all the needs of web site and application development from the project plan until it went live including personal and equipment resourcing, scheduling, technical contact for clients, technical vendor relations management and ensuring the overall quality of all projects.
Responsible for the entire development group with positions including Content and Server Engineers, Flash Developers and System Engineers. Managed project types included Rich Media Banner Ads, micro sites, robust Interactive Web Sites and Applications, managed Hosting Environments and internal development support. Other duties included training of junior employees, high-level code design and architecture, define processes/standards and development of selected projects. TribalDDB San Francisco’s clients included Clorox (servicing many brands), NBCU, Drugstore.com and Wells Fargo. -
Senior Flash Developer / Content Engineer
Macys.com
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; M; Retail industry)
May 2003 — April 2005 (2 years)
My time at Macy’s was split between two different assignments. First was for Macys.com in which I was responsible for the home page, one-off pages, mini-sites, micro shopping applications and all Flash/ActionScript development. Worked closely with Server Engineering in SF and Creative in NY to complete projects. Macys.com uses WebSphere, AXIS Web Services, Java/JSP, XML and XSLT. Development tasks utilized WSAD, XML Spy, Xalan, Java Outline Editor, Cygwin and Eclipse.
The second assignment was to manage and develop all Flash/ActionScript and motion design for the redesign/build/launch of ThisIsIt.com, a web site for the Juniors department of Macy’s. The goal of the overhaul was to develop a highly interactive Flash site with a robust framework that tied into existing product, event/vendor data and CMS. The framework was built with Flex and communicated with data services using Flash Remoting and SOAP.
Chris Colinsky’s Education
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Academy of Art University
BFA , Computer Arts: Computer Animation, Visual Effects and Compositing , 1997 — 2003
Studies included 3D Modeling/Animation (Maya), Video Editing (Media 100, Premiere, Final Cut Pro), Compositing/Paint (After Effects, Combustion, Commotion) and experimental film.
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