Director, User Experience for Self Service at AOL Advertising
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Director, User Experience for Self Service at AOL Advertising
Washington D.C. Metro Area
During the last 14+ years as a Creative Director, Designer and Programmer, I have developed many successful, award-winning interactive solutions and products.
I possess a unique understanding of the creative, technical and business disciplines and how they're best woven together to achieve a desired goal, and the natural ability to effectively communicate those ideals not only to my peers, superiors and subordinates, but to my clients and stakeholders as well.
As the Creative Director of any project or team, I'm intently focused on the big picture without ever losing sight of the finest details. I define the scope of a project by its vision, not by it's bulk, and that makes me ideally suited to work for any sized company, big or small. It's been my honor to be able to put my skills and experiences to work for and with top-tier clients such as Adobe, AOL, CareerBuilder, Freddie Mac / Fannie Mae, The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Walters Art Gallery.
Creative Direction, Design, Product Development, Management, Development, Graphic Design, Front-end development, Information Architecture, Web Design, Strategy, Branding, Production, Project Management
(Internet industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Leading the UI/UX efforts for a new self-service advertising solution for AOL Advertising / Advertising.com
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; TWX; Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Building new products to rule the world.
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)
Vice President, Creative Director
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
April 2002 — March 2006 (4 years )
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Design industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
(Public Company; Design industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Designed various marketing materials for GoLive and presentation materials
(Public Company; Design industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
Designed and Developed all templates on Dreamweaver 3 CD and various online ads, etc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
BFA , Graphic Design and Photography , 1992 — 1996
Being a dad to 2 beautiful girls, golf, traveling
IAB Widget Committee, IAB In-Game Committee, AAB, NoEnd, AIGA, OMMA, iMedia
Advertising.com:
Speaker at Widget Web Expo 2008 - NYC
Speaker at Widget Summit 2008 - San Francisco
http://widgetsummit.com/2008/speakers/joelfisher/
Speaker at iMedia Brand Summit 2007 in Bonita Beach, Florida
Product Development:
Created Flash-in-Flash - Serving flash ads into flash environments
Created Widgnet - Advertising.com's widget distribution and ad network
TruePresence:
Interviewed on KGOAM in SanFrancisco and KTRH AM news/talk in Houston, TX
Wrote articles published in Baltimore Business Journal and various online news centers
Planit:
Spoke a various AIGA, Advertising Association of Baltimore events
Various ADDY and Webby awards
Grafik:
Published in Graphis "designagencies.com", Communication Arts, How, Print Magazine
Overall Award Talley:
1 National Gold Addy
2 Gold Addys (2006)
4 Silver Addys (2006)
8 Silver Addys (2000-2005), Art Directors Club