Interactive Designer and Creative Director
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- Adjunct Instructor at Clark College
- Strategic Interactive Design Consultant at Gus Torres Illustration + Interactive Design
- Past
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- Creative Director at OCP (Oregon Catholic Press)
- Adjunct Instructor at The Art Institute of Portland
- Interactive Design and Consultant at Mercy Corps
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- Education
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- San Jose State University
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Gus Torres’s Summary
A creative design professional since 1989 whose experience spans all levels of the medium, from traditional design and art direction, to human interface and web design.
Strengths include a balanced mix of strong creative problem solving, solid design, illustration and animation skills, and vast up-to-date knowledge of relevant strategic interactive offerings including Flash, email campaigns, e-commerce, content management systems, and standards-based web design.
Experience includes successfully hiring and developing functional creative teams, streamlining processes, creating collaborative and fun environments across design and development teams, maintaining good client relationships and managing projects that cross print to web disciplines.
Gus Torres’s Specialties:
Standards-based web design (XHTML/CSS/PHP/JavaScript), user interaction and interface design, Flash animation and ActionScripting and character development, open-source content management system templates (Drupal and Wordpress), project and staff management, teaching and corporate training, marketing, advertising and print design.
