Creative Director at HumanKind inc.
Houston, Texas Area
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- Creative Director at HumanKind inc.
- Past
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- Senior Designer at Idea Interactive/Idea Integration
- Designer / Freelance at Ibex Puppetry
- Interactive Content Developer at Full Sail Online - Full Sail University
- Designer/Sub-Contractor at Seventh Degree, Inc.
- Intern Online Journalist and Production Assistant at Full Sail Real World Education
- Designer/Consultant at FocusDetail.com
- Consultant at InBinghamton.com
- Education
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- Full Sail University
- Full Sail University
- Luzerne County Community College
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Mat Giordano’s Summary
*Creative production/project management.
*Able to multi-task and communicate well in a deadline-driven creative production environment.
*Solid stronghold on global corporate branding and adherence to style guides to stress importance of maintaining and growing an identity.
*Professional foundations in major design software packages including Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Flash, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Final Cut Pro HD, 3D Studio Max and After Effects.
*Working knowledge of web programming languages, including XHTML, CSS, Actionscript, PHP, and Javascript.
*Familiarity with web analytics packages to manage/track site data such as Web Trends and Google Analytics/Urchin.
*Blogger at matgiordano.com/blog
*Columnist at Weekender.com.
*Coursework done in broadcast journalism and electrical theory.
*Background in audio engineering and post production.
Mat Giordano’s Specialties:
Graphic/interactive design, typography & layout, project/creative management, branding and identity, web/data analysis, contingency design, content management, copywriting.
Mat Giordano’s Experience
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Creative Director
HumanKind inc.
(Online Media industry)
August 2008 — Present (2 months)
Overseeing creative team in daily milestones, assuring brand compliance and fluidity meshes well with top notch design and interactivity above and beyond client expectations.
In-depth team concept development allows for a diverse design team to tie off at different ends of visual and interactive workflows.
Present client roster includes Related Architecture, NYC; Sprint; Subaru; Brinks Worldwide; match.com; Texas Instruments. -
Senior Designer
Idea Interactive/Idea Integration
(Online Media industry)
October 2007 — August 2008 (11 months)
Senior-level Multimedia designer responsible for conceptualizing and executing rich media experiences and maintaining brand guidelines for an expanse of global clients and Fortune 500 companies including HP, Microsoft, Intel, and Sony.
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Designer / Freelance
Ibex Puppetry
(Entertainment industry)
June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)
Built identity for reoccuring puppet shows/puppet slams from Florida to Los Angeles, CA. Clients include Heather Henson (Executive Producer) and Jamie Donmoyer (Co-Producer, Puppeteer; Johnny and the Sprites).
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Interactive Content Developer
Full Sail Online - Full Sail University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
March 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Project lead/manager on IT integrations including redesigns, interactive video, technical maps, Flash video integration. From documentation of these upgrades a style guide was developed to follow when producing mulitmedia content for site.
Responsible for creation of interactive solutions, along with keeping the Propeller brand in tact and resorting to a specific color palette when creating visual content for the site.
Long term goals for myself during the duration of my time working for Manny and Co. was to increase Propeller intranet traffic at least two fold. I was fortunate enough to accomplish this with such a cool team and push our my final month with the company's unique visitor count to 764,754, almost twice the highest projected numbers.
Daily exposure to incredibly efficient product development and workflow processes allowed me to streamline and develop my own approach to creative projects in general. -
Designer/Sub-Contractor
Seventh Degree, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
January 2007 — January 2007 (1 month)
*Reorganized/rebuilt stylesheet code for a one night turnaround based on a client's timetable.
*Fixed up design comps to make the final two pieces work together fluidly. -
Intern Online Journalist and Production Assistant
Full Sail Real World Education
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2005 — February 2006 (6 months)
Did pickup work around the team, from writing demographically-targeted articles to design work and minor programming with XML.
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Designer/Consultant
FocusDetail.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — February 2006 (2 months)
Served as a designer and consultant for BlueFly affiliate FocusDetail.com, a listing page linking the end user to designer products on the web at a discount from places such as MoMa Store (NYC) and Overstock.com.
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Consultant
InBinghamton.com
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — January 2006 (1 month)
Served as a consultant to prepare InBinghamton.com for a timely launch.
Mat Giordano’s Education
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Full Sail University
Bachelor of Science, Digital Art & Design, 2005 — 2006
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Full Sail University
Associate of Science, Digital Media, 2005
3.4/4.0 CUM GPA
Attended SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
Attended Mac Design Conference 2005 in Tampa, Florida. -
Luzerne County Community College
1999 — 2002
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Mat Giordano’s Interests:
New technology, design and art of any kind, web standards and optimization, information architecture, archiving, print/web/motion advertising, writing, start-up business ventures, professional networking, music music music, travel, cooking, hot sauce and wine fanatic.
Mat Giordano’s Groups:
Cambridge Who's Who Executives & Professionals Honors Registry (2007-present)
ACM Siggraph Member (2005-present), Flash Forward Austin 2006
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Full Sail Linked
Mat Giordano’s Honors:
Salutatorian - Bachelor of Science (2006)
Advanced Achievement Award - (2006)
Cambridge Who's Who Executives & Professionals Honors Registry - (2007)
Course Director's Award for Typography & Page Layout - (2006)
Course Director's Award for Portfolio Creation - (2006)
Certificate of Excellence - (2006)
Certificate of Excellence - (2005)
Course Director's Award for Digital Publishing - (2005)
Mat Giordano’s Contact Settings
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