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Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Founded and lead boutique web development agency that helps redefine how brands connect with consumers. Drive business development, client strategy, and technical strategy. Oversee financial management. Clients range.
• Advise on brand and content strategy, UI and UX, ensuring that sites reflect and strengthen the brand and advance brand goals.
• Identify and ensure use of latest technology and functionality to create customized sites that stand out.
• Oversee projects, providing input on the site’s look and feel, functionality, ways to use existing resources to reduce costs, and choices of front-end and back-end technology.
• Assembled group of experienced individuals and firms as resources from which to build project teams, including on-shore and off-shore developers, project managers, designers, and content producers. Selected Client.

Directed development of sites for clients of design and branding firm. Spearheaded strategy, project scoping and budgeting, and technology development, including coding and SEO. Led teams of varying sizes comprised of developers, project managers, and creatives.

• Built front end of dozens of websites, from alpha stage to launch, for companies large and small, using the latest technology and applications.
• Developed the front end of ClearStation’s alpha website, a company bought by eTrade.
• Built dozens of 2-10 page brochure sites for small businesses such as interior designers and contractors.
• Built the University of St. Louis Medical’s website, designing and coding the 100 page site in HTML.

Built websites for Wells Fargo, Netscape, Cisco, Levi Strauss and other large local companies. Created Flash-based web banners. Trained and managed new coding staff.

Co-founded recording studio. Produced weekly live web broadcast of popular local bands.

US

Produced variety of interviews, live chats and events broadcast on the experimental interactive channel of the first on-line publication and commercial website. Created content schedule, developed editorial concept, secured guests, organized technology, and conducted interviews. Interviewed authors, musicians, actors and entertainers including Cowboy.

San Francisco, CA, US

WIRED MAGAZINE, San Francisco, CA 07/94 – 05/95 Marketing AssociateSales AssociateMember of founding sales team at groundbreaking magazine. Wrote pitch letters and copy for mock ads that helped rebrand technology for advertisers such as Saturn and Ford Motors, carrying out founder’s vision to equate technology with “coolness.” Part of team that brought in.