
Employee at 37signals
Greater Chicago Area

Employee at 37signals
Greater Chicago Area
10+ years designing for the Web. I spent 7 years at Crate and Barrel building up their Internet Graphics department--designing and producing solutions for crateandbarrel.com and cb2.com. Prior to my work at Crate and Barrel I worked at Organic, an interactive agency, where I designed and developed online solutions for industry leaders such as Target and FTD.
art direction, design, branding and identity, strategy, ecommerce, marketing and advertising
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (2 months)
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)
July 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
July 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
July 2001 — July 2005 (4 years 1 month)
Conceptualize and design all elements of Crate and Barrel and CB2's online presence. Manage a team of 5.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 1 month)
cyberPIXIE was a wireless network solutions provider for the hospitality industry. I managed and developed all design efforts and collateral for the company. The range of work varied from corporate ID and tradeshow signage to art directing photoshoots and web design. My front-end coding skills developed further while at cyberPIXIE. I also started to focus my design towards building flexible, template-able visual architectures.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
May 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Designed sites for several Fortune 500 business including FTD and Target.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 1997 — July 1999 (2 years 1 month)
Closer Look was my first gig out of school. I learned a lot here and made lots of friends. Great group to work with.
BA, Fine Arts, Visual Communication, 1993 — 1997
spending time with my wife and daughter, popcorn movies, art house movies, indie music and lite rock, david bowie, skateboarding
Forbes Best of Web, AsianMack.com (http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7730)
Communication Arts Interactive Annual
(http://www.commarts.com/ca/interactive/cai01/33_ia01.html)
One Show Interactive Silver, E-Commerce
(http://www.oneclub.org/os/osi/showcase/?year=2001&id=2893)
Speaker, Internet Retailer Web Design '08 Conference
(http://www.internetretailer.com/IRWD08/speaker_detail.asp?sid=j_dihiansan)