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Roseland, New Jersey, US

Focused on research-driven software design for Retirement Services; Sponsor, Participant, Financial Advisor, and internal facing.

A personal project with partner Bob Ostrom, Creative Independence is a social media experience that includes a blog, podcast, and a number of social media touch points. Currently on extended hiatus, Creative Independence provided its audience with looks into a variety of ways that artists and other creatives were making a living in today’s markets..

Newark, New Jersey, US

(Contract Position)Creating accessible wireframes, designs, and prototypes for Prudential Retirement’s Sponsor Portal. - Accessibility research and design for common and custom interaction patterns. - Creation of screens branded with Prudential’s own design system, PruStrap, but translated into workable solutions within Salesforce’s Lightning Design.

Thomaston, Connecticut, US

Reimagined as a strict WordPress shop. Set up, host, migrate and design websites and landing pages for small to medium-sized businesses who fit comfortably in this space, helping them to understand online marketing and providing technical support to site owners who maintain their own content.- Provide bullet-proof WordPress website hosting and.

Rocky Hill, CT, US

(Contract Position)Worked on three separate projects for the United Way.State of Connecticut's online Caretakes Portal (6 months):Crafted intuitive visuals and interactions for new features for the caretaker portal, then assisted the development team by implementing visual designs into application code via HTML and CSS. Working in a GitHub environment..

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Netsolace is the technology arm of Edible Agreements. Applying UX Design principles to Edible Arrangements website updates and internal franchise management software, of which there is a lot. Most of their software and apps are home grown.

Shelton, CT, US

(Contract Position)Usable and accessible visual designs for one large client. Deliverables include user flow charts, wireframes, interaction designs and interactive prototypes along with responsive visual design specs for both web and mobile apps. Heavy focus on Google Material design.- Designs I created for Skillsoft’s mobile app were also retrofitted.

Bristol, CT, US

Responsible for the visual design of much of ESPN’s Internal and B2B websites and digital media for a decade. Worked, often as the sole designer, with 20+ developers in the Web Team on a variety of projects ranging from multimedia presentations to app and web design to digital communications. As the design team grew, remained responsible for the bulk of.

Burbank, CA, US

PLEASE NOTE: This is the same position as ESPN (above), but should allow my Disney colleagues to connect with me easier.

Thomaston, Connecticut, US

Founded after the 2000 tech bubble burst, Aithene Multimedia originated mainly as a vehicle to facilitate freelance work, providing full service media and design for everything from initial branding to website, and print marketing materials. It was shuttered a couple of years after starting full time at ESPN.- Cultivated relationships with clients all over.

Part of the digital design team, primary responsibilities included designing Microcast’s streaming video player, creating our client’s ‘microsite’ advertising used by the player, and supporting website marketing and development efforts.- Surprised sales team w/ a number of mock microsites for use in sales calls.- Set the design template for our video player.

Continuation of the animator’s duties, but now with oversight of a number of our company’s newest animators for pitches, games and animated movies.- Mentored new animators, teaching our process, philosophy and software.- Reduced in-house rework by creating character model sheets for JumpStart properties.

Responsible for animating characters and designing interfaces and backgrounds for children’s educational games for a variety of clients such as Blaster, JumpStart, Barbie and Fisher Price.- Improved animation lip-synch process with x-sheets, creating a better product.- Reduced rework by introducing storyboards and animatics for game scene previsualization.

Animation, Animation, Illustration, Graphic Design

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program