
Interactive Creative Director at ESW Partners
Greater Chicago Area

Interactive Creative Director at ESW Partners
Greater Chicago Area
I am a Graphic Designer/Creative Director with over 13 years of professional experience, including:
Print experience:
Over 14 years of experience in print, including: brochure, direct-mail, catalog, magazine, white paper, billboard, annual report and packaging.
Web experience:
Over 7 years of experience, including: usability testing, HTML and Dreamweaver construction of simple to complex Web sites, mock-up and wireframe creation, Flash, AJAX, community and banner-ad creation.
Multimedia/Video experience:
Over 12 years of experience in video/motion, including: 3D animation, non-linear video editing, post-production, original music creation, assisted in broadcast commercial creation on-set, trade-show and event multimedia creation.
Management experience:
Led team of 4 designers, participated in 2 corporate redesigns, lead on 1 corporate redesign, work with budgeting for print, web, and multimedia/hardware assets.
Creative Direction and Design
Web site design and Rich-Media design
Motion Graphics
Photography
Videography
Management/Creative Direction
(Graphic Design industry)
2008 — Present (1 year)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Responsible for the creative direction and branding for the consumer-facing "ShopLocal.com" shopping site, and for the B2B "AboutShopLocal.com" supporting the ShopLocal suite of products.
(Graphic Design industry)
2002 — 2008 (6 years)
Freelance design, primarily Web based including the creation of: Banner ads, Web site mocks and design via Dreamweaver, Flash, or HTML.
(Public Company; Graphic Design industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years)
Responsible for the design and execution of corporate collateral including: brochures, Web site designs, multimedia demo's and promotional materials, direct mail, white papers, internal branding elements and more.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
September 1996 — December 2000 (4 years 4 months)
Responsible for the design and execution of collateral for a variety of clients ranging from print design to multimedia and web design.
Graphic Design, Creative Direction, User-Interface Design, Multimedia and Flash design, 3D animation and modeling, Videography, Photography, Movies, Outdoors, Spending time with my family
BMA award, corporate redesign