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California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

Guest experience software for the hospitality industry. Started in restaurants pre-pandemic as a "POS system in the palm of your guests hands" (contactless ordering from guests phone while dining in) and evolved to a white labeled app that allowed hotel guests to manage their stay, communicate with staff, order food, tip staff and more.In addition to building out the product and team, I had regular CEO coaching from a number of accomplished operators, and did extensive… Show more Guest experience software for the hospitality industry. Started in restaurants pre-pandemic as a "POS system in the palm of your guests hands" (contactless ordering from guests phone while dining in) and evolved to a white labeled app that allowed hotel guests to manage their stay, communicate with staff, order food, tip staff and more.In addition to building out the product and team, I had regular CEO coaching from a number of accomplished operators, and did extensive boots-on-the-ground research around the end users needs and my customers use cases.We became the primary source of operational and guest behavioral data for our customers and helped them drive innovation and revenue through it. Show less

Orange County, California Area

Orange County, California Area

Responsive landing page for industry-wide tech conference

Orange County, California Area

As Creative Director I was responsible for designing all internal and external communications as well as prototypes, screen flows, and user experience for the flagship product.Lantern has a Fortune 100 Board of Directors that includes former Pepsi/Apple CEO John Sculley and former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack.Other responsibilities included:- Company branding both digital and printed - Trade show graphics and booth design used at Money20/20 2016 run by Forbes magazine… Show more As Creative Director I was responsible for designing all internal and external communications as well as prototypes, screen flows, and user experience for the flagship product.Lantern has a Fortune 100 Board of Directors that includes former Pepsi/Apple CEO John Sculley and former Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack.Other responsibilities included:- Company branding both digital and printed - Trade show graphics and booth design used at Money20/20 2016 run by Forbes magazine. We were a 5 diamond sponsor and as the keynote speaker, John Sculley introduced the company and brand. - Investor packages and company overview- Presentations that are used to pitch Fortune 100 investors on a regular basis. Show less

Orange County, California Area

Upload Creative is a full service web design agency located in Orange County, Ca.• Web Application Development• UI & UX• Front-End development for desktop and mobile• Art Direction & Design

Santa Ana, California

• Animated Banner Campaigns for national campaigns• Front-End and Back-End Web Development• Interaction Design• UI Design & Wireframes

Dallas, Texas, United States

Designed and built an intranet based reporting platform for a large family office.They had an established Excel workflow that they wanted to keep, so we were constrained to using that and VB as a backend, and HTML, CSS, and JS on the front end. Additionally we had no access to the network so evertyhing had to be done locally. We crafted a solution around these parameters by writing of the data from excel into a very long JS file and saving it to the file system. Then we imported that… Show more Designed and built an intranet based reporting platform for a large family office.They had an established Excel workflow that they wanted to keep, so we were constrained to using that and VB as a backend, and HTML, CSS, and JS on the front end. Additionally we had no access to the network so evertyhing had to be done locally. We crafted a solution around these parameters by writing of the data from excel into a very long JS file and saving it to the file system. Then we imported that file to the HTML on page load and used it to conditionally populate the interface.With this creative solution, the client was able to keep their Excel workflow, and with the click of a button, create a statically generated web-based dashboard on their intranet to display reports containing data and related graphical diagrams as needed. Show less

Costa Mesa, Ca

After this national commercial construction supply retailer was bought by Bain Capital (Mitt Romney's company), they were downsized considerably. Once the company was lean, they began to overhaul the brand. I was brought in to work on the rebranding team as the lead interactive art director, in charge of concepting, designing, and executing graphical assets and web prototypes.• Researched target market• Designed and presented concepts for web rebrand based on target market•… Show more After this national commercial construction supply retailer was bought by Bain Capital (Mitt Romney's company), they were downsized considerably. Once the company was lean, they began to overhaul the brand. I was brought in to work on the rebranding team as the lead interactive art director, in charge of concepting, designing, and executing graphical assets and web prototypes.• Researched target market• Designed and presented concepts for web rebrand based on target market• Designed, coded and managed HTML email campaigns• Developed and implemented web based process for presenting and testing web properties internally Show less

Designed and Managed UI assets for various software products. Designed UI elements for SendStuffNow.com.

Irvine, Ca

Coded 80+ page section of laptops website. Was live at http://laptops.toshiba.com/research-center for more than 2yrs. • Front-End development• HTML• CSS• Javascript• Cross browser testing• Flash

Princeton, Nj

Developed front-end interface for document management system used to organize internal business process documentation. My UI mock-up was used to pitch the product to the client. Once the project was green-lit I programmed and tested the front-end with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.The application had two modes for visualizing data. One was more flat and the other more hierarchal. Users can filter on multiple values, see tooltips on hover of links to help decision-making, edit global… Show more Developed front-end interface for document management system used to organize internal business process documentation. My UI mock-up was used to pitch the product to the client. Once the project was green-lit I programmed and tested the front-end with HTML, CSS, and Javascript.The application had two modes for visualizing data. One was more flat and the other more hierarchal. Users can filter on multiple values, see tooltips on hover of links to help decision-making, edit global discussion files, and more. Show less

Newport Beach, Ca

Managed all internal and external marketing materials for both print and web. The properties included Panini Garden Bistro, Ten Sushi Restaurant, and Tentation night club.

Orange County, California Area

• Animated 2nd and 3rd quarter banner ad campaigns for Time Warner• Coded HTML and CSS for 2008 Intuit rebranding• Animated Cox Communications banner campaign

San Clemente, Ca

• Magazine layout and production• Illustration• Animation storyboarding • Flash animation• Banner ad designI gave life to drab technical data in the magazines by creating attractive vector infographics. The improvement to the overall look & feel of the magazine got immediate praise from both the advertisers and subscribers.

• Highly branded custom brochure designs• Highly branded custom website designs with connections to MLS

Orange County, California, United States

Frustrated by the customer experience at my favorite surfing beach, which could contain long waits in line for parking, unpredictable coastal weather, and ever-changing surf conditions, I set out to build a product that would give myself and the many others that enjoyed that beach, a way to get that information in real-time.In a weekend I built a prototype web app that I could update from my Blackberry, designed some marketing collateral, and launched the product. I put flyers in every… Show more Frustrated by the customer experience at my favorite surfing beach, which could contain long waits in line for parking, unpredictable coastal weather, and ever-changing surf conditions, I set out to build a product that would give myself and the many others that enjoyed that beach, a way to get that information in real-time.In a weekend I built a prototype web app that I could update from my Blackberry, designed some marketing collateral, and launched the product. I put flyers in every surf shop in Orange County, connected with state park officials and beach clean-up groups to spread the word, bought advertising on surfline.com, and sat at the beach manually upodating the data every saturday, sunday, and holiday for 6mo.Well, word spread like wildfire and I got immediate product-market-fit, with page view numbers reaching 80k/mo, and my banner ad click through rate over 5% (10x what othere advertisers were getting). I monetized the home page by selling banner ads and was soon making thousands of dollars per month. Some advertisers didnt have a digial version of their marketing, so we started offering design services as well and became a small agency. With steady cash flow, I paid hig school kids to update the website and went surfing.Overall, the concept didnt scale, but by the time I shut the business, web cameras were becoming commonplace and the state wanted a formal bid to install and maintain them. Not the type of business I was looking for. The notoriety and network I gained from a crazy idea and a weekend of hacking, sustained my website design and development business for almost a decade, so I still consider it one of the great learning experiences and successes of my life. Show less

New York, New York, United States

Interned in the Developmental Animation Dept. at MTV in Manhattan, NY