Freelance Creative Technologist
Greater Chicago Area
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- Owner at Pixelbacon.com
- Past
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- Contract Principal Software Engineer at Digitas
- Co-Founder/Technology Director/Creative Technologist at invertedCreative, LLC
- Widget Developer at MediaRiver Inc.
- Creative Director at Think Simple LLC
- Contract Flash Developer/Art Director at Creative Circle
- Contract Senior Art Director at Quicksilver Associates
- Contract Flash Developer at Arc Worldwide
- Contract Flash Developer at Quicksilver Associates
- Contract Brand Manager at Off The Break
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Michael Minor’s Summary
Creative Brand Technologist using vast amounts of energy I have to pursue new business ventures. The fields have varied to which I have been involved and that alone has been a strong reason for such enthusiasm in my work. From guerrilla marketing to big budget ad campaigns I have helped in one way or another. Planning, designing, developing, and brand analysis have all been major requirements within my pursuits.
Michael Minor’s Specialties:
Flash development, branding and identity, php and mysql, art direction, creative direction, broadcast, video production
Michael Minor’s Experience
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Owner
Pixelbacon.com
(Online Media industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
Flash development utilizing branding requirements. Information architecture with a visual and promising form. Art Direction suited to brand guideline and audience. Cut throat visual agenda promising brand confidence before hands on experience.
Kick ass rich media. -
Contract Principal Software Engineer
Digitas
(Public Company; PUB; Marketing and Advertising industry)
December 2008 — February 2009 (3 months)
Flash development spanning multiple projects. High performance, lean architecture(s), high traffic.
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Co-Founder/Technology Director/Creative Technologist
invertedCreative, LLC
(Online Media industry)
August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Inverted Creative is constantly wading through new technologies to find what solutions match our client needs. Part of this requirement is once a solution is found packing it up to be used by developers for future projects. Although highly technical there is still a large requirement for making sure the technologies match the brand. With the team Inverted Creative has, this is a fun, unique aspect to a usually technical position; as I can spread my creative wings often.
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Widget Developer
MediaRiver Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)
In my 3 months as the only Flash Developer I pushed out roughly 10 widgets. Some bad and some good but it was a fast paced start-up and the client was happy most of the time. One of our best widgets obtained 60,000 views in it's first week through help from a marketing strategy in the Media Services department which I was a part of and close collaboration with the client for the project; HayStack.com. All the while building a code library from a marketable perspective and to improve development time.
Beyond Flash development I helped in pipeline development, straight forward launch procedures for client's, as well as the go-to guy for questions regarding OSX, applications to help manage time and tasks, etc. -
Creative Director
Think Simple LLC
(Food Production industry)
May 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Started Simple Coffee a trademark owned by Think Simple LLC. Think Simple was started by Joshua Gore, Steve Colletti, and myself.
Since we are an agile company the responsibilities vary. Not to say one person is bound to one thing and one thing only, or even a set. But as the business changes and we respond to the public or to our decisions as a company, who can do what is the main question.
My general responsibilities fall under the general idea of what a Creative Director should do in a company such as ours. From designing the website and packaging along side the others in the company to researching new methods both online and other areas.
There is difficulty in describing the position considering that my fellow workers and I are quite enabled some of the same areas. I generally am the one to refine the ideas into a valid form of visual communication. Given that task and it's depth but undefined parameters, describing my position comes with a broad stroke. -
Contract Flash Developer/Art Director
Creative Circle
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years)
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Contract Senior Art Director
Quicksilver Associates
(Privately Held; Media Production industry)
November 2005 — January 2006 (3 months)
Website development. Art direction. Usability expert. All of these while maintaining hands on development in Flash Mx 2004 Pro.
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Contract Flash Developer
Arc Worldwide
(Public Company; PUB.PA; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2006 — 2006 (less than a year)
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Contract Flash Developer
Quicksilver Associates
(Privately Held; Media Production industry)
April 2004 — April 2004 (1 month)
Created a brand complient interactive application to sort through over 2000 pages in multiple pdfs. Project utilized Flash Paper 2 along with Flash Mx and Xml. Beautiful deliverable.
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Contract Brand Manager
Off The Break
(Graphic Design industry)
January 2002 — January 2004 (2 years 1 month)
Brand identity creation and development. Web to print saturation w/ creative intent. Made a mark in a short time due to well thought out branding with passion as the drive.
Additional Information
Michael Minor’s Websites:
Michael Minor’s Interests:
ajax/js, driving, coffee, judiasm, biking, chicago avant, writing, sketching, design, css, camping, road trips
Michael Minor’s Groups:
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Web Standards Design + Development
Michael Minor’s Honors:
BB SOTW, Moluv.com mention
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