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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Geneva , Ch

Advising venture partners and early stage investments on product experience, collaboration, vision, culture, and growth.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Working with NYTimes bestselling author and executive Kim Scott (formerly at Google, Apple, Twitter, etc.) to develop her brand, talks, workshops, and products.Upon moving to the Bay Area in April of 2017, I decided to take a break from six straight years of managing and building high-growth design teams. Radical Candor’s message of honesty, vulnerability, and compassion resonated deeply with my own values as a manager. I’ve helped Kim develop her products and brand, spreading Radical Candor through workshops and talks around the world.

Independently and collaboratively working with great teams while taking a break from design management to lead research, design, strategy, and prototyping projects for platforms and experiences.Clients include the Shanghai Planetarium, MM.Lafleur, Everwise, and various early stage startups.Example project: Led experience design for the Shanghai Planetarium (opening 2020) working with a large global team of interdisciplinary scientists, designers, and thinkers led by Tucker Viemeister. Work included augmented reality exhibits, interactive touchscreens, walls, tables, and environments. Focused on accessibility, localization, and consistency utilizing a modern component library, in additional to technical implementation (platforms, frameworks, networking, hardware decisions).

New York, Ny, Us

Directed a powerful cover of the world's oldest and most prestigious International Relations magazine (published bimonthly) for 4+ years, collaborating closely with the editorial team to commission and guide over 30 artists, photographers, and illustrators.Helped double newsstand sales and grew circulation 30%, dramatically reversing the tide of slowing subscription growth (I also directed and designed their award-winning website while at my agency).Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs, read by presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and academics worldwide.

New York, Ny, Us

Established, hired, and led a diverse team of 20+ UX designers, researchers, analysts, developers, and managers in a five-year roadmap building 19 products from scratch in a cloud-native enterprise retail software suite partnering closely with 10+ major retailers such as Whole Foods, Target, and Walgreens.Led and advocated collaborative product design and development processes across departments bringing together executives and key stakeholders with overlapping but often competing interests, priorities, and perspectives.Established and directed an iterative and open-source Design System as a product team, exponentially reducing costs while increasing quality, experimentation, and consistency across 10+ active product teams and 500+ team members in 10 countries.Integrated long-term roadmap exploration into agile practices, working with product teams to envision stories and app experiences years in advance, stress-testing product/roadmap/ architecture decisions and allowing teams to explore and recharge regularly.Mentored teammates across the org in growing executive, design, and collaboration skills in the context of their products and careers via one-on- ones, standups, lunch debates, and a “soft skills” presentation series on wide-ranging topics such as “critiques,” “affordance,” and “impostor syndrome.”Enabled powerful time-saving workflows for users by championing location- and context-aware user-customizable navigation and dashboards coupled with elastic search-based navigation to objects and actions throughout the product suite.Directed UX engagements (on site research, testing, product integration, iterative releases) with 10+ major retail partners including Whole Foods, Target, Nordstrom, Home Depot, Lululemon, Walgreens, and Crate & Barrel.

Founded, hired, and led a full-service agency and creative team, transforming a mid-sized dev shop into an award- winning full-service creative agency with an NYC office of six employees working with an offshore team of 35+ developers across South America headquartered in Lima, Peru and domestic teams across four US cities.Managed the full client creative process—from lead generation and sales to research, production, delivery, and launch—for over $5M accounts in a broad range of industries and service offerings, from print packaging to apps.Quadrupled new business revenue over five years, doubling overall business by focusing on clients and industries in flux.Worked closely with designers, developers, project managers, and client stakeholders to design and implement user-centric, long-term strategies in product and brand direction backed by stunning creative and a tenacious attention to details, small and large.Established firm’s reputation for tackling complex UX challenges working with massive data and content sets, distilling them into award-winning immersive experiences.Clients included Viacom, Tiffany & Co., Foreign Affairs Magazine, Pearson, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Manhattan Institute, Arnold Foundation, Undercurrent, and Jovial Foods.

Started as design director and took over management of all creative, freelancers, creative sales and client management, and interactions with development team including hand-off, QA, problem-solving, and bug-trackingHandled all creative/art direction and 25-50% of the design workExpanded creative capacity through a trusted group of talented freelancers and prepared agency for first full-time creative hiresRecommended and oversaw process and tooling transitions/integrations including Harvest, Basecamp, InVision, Creative Cloud, TypeKit, Hoefler Cloud Typography, and responsive designMoved Brooklyn office to Manhattan after brokering space in the penthouse offices of a prestigious architecture firm.

Co-founded a Hurricane Sandy recovery fund for local businesses in my neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, raising over $500,000 for 50+ local businesses devastated by the storm. I executed the project's design, development, and digital strategy—within 24 hours after the storm we were accepting funds, and our organization and website became a model and partner for the equally successful Restore Rockaways project.

New York, Ny, Us

— Co-founded and subsequently served as chairman of the board and executive director of the arts foundation dedicated to replacing advertisements in Times Square with art.— Led business strategy and partnerships to transform a simple idea into an international movement with an economically-viable and emotionally-resonant opportunity for all stakeholders.— Designed all branding and creative, partnering with the award-winning firm The Brooklyn Brothers to film Kickstarter video.— Acquired legal representation of powerhouse firm WilmerHale, incorporated the group as a 501c3 and trademarked branding.— Established board of directors and built relationships with the city’s tourism and marketing department (NYCGo), the Times Square Alliance, donors, advertising agencies, media buyers, arts organizations, the press, and volunteers.

New York, Ny, Us

—Redesigned the 30-year-old center for global thought leadership's magazine from the ground up—overseeing creative direction for the magazine's design, photography, retouching, and managing illustrator commission, concepts, and direction.— Breathed new life into an established institution in foreign policy's flagship print product, working closely with publisher Michele Wucker, editor David Andelman, and managing editors Ryan Bradley, Justin Vogt, and Christopher Shay.

In 2009 MixdMedia merged with Creative Director Nick Robalik's Hero Shop to form HERO. We pursued bold and interesting clients ranging from Coca-Cola to Tory Burch, focusing on innovative websites and branding campaigns. Oversaw sales, account management, creative direction, and design working closely with clients and freelancers to deliver stunning web solutions.

New York, Ny, Us

Art directed magazines for Time's Content Solutions division, focusing on creating a publication for the global business advisory behemoth FTI Consulting. Hired and directed illustrators, worked with the editorial and production teams, and designed a new template for their internal magazine, FTI.

I founded and ran a small boutique full-service creative agency for a wide range of brands including American Express, Jacques Torres Chocolate, HSBC, Selima Optique, and others. From sales, account management, creative direction, copywriting, and graphic design, to project management, talent hiring, book keeping, and invoicing — I was often a one-man band, and would bring in freelance talent wherever budget permitted or execution required.

Livingston, Nj, Us

Worked from concept to execution on web campaigns, marketing, microsites, and sweepstakes for major brands including Avon, Kraft, Anheuser-Busch, Post Cereals, Sony, Toyota, and more.

Worked for two years to create a music festival celebrating Social Entrepreneurship and the idea that business has the power to transform the world around us for the better. While we had terrific advisors and an amazing team of people, the project ultimately fell apart due to my need to focus on my career as a creative director and funding challenges during the 2008 recession.

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Brooklyn Industries is a brand normally associated with images of Brooklynites around Brooklyn. But in 2007 and 2008, we explored their brand and marketing as a vehicle for meaningful cultural dialogue. They hired me with the intention of running campaigns that spoke to political issues they and their customers cared about. Whether exploring the idea of weaponizing our purchasing decisions, or celebrating everyone finding their little piece of nature in the city, we explored three strong seasons together and the idea that a brand can be more than a product or a service — it can be a bold and participatory voice in important societal discourse. It remains some of my favorite work.From testing and pitching campaign concepts, to hiring and directing photographers, models, stylists, hair stylists, to retouching and designing the final campaign art, writing campaign copy, working with window designers for the in-store displays, merchandizers on in-store signage, and the web team on web marketing and the site itself, I worked on every aspect of campaign creative.

The College Party was an early precursor to Mr. Youth and MRY, founded by JSwipe founder David Yarus. TCP was a sponsor-based brand engagement and marketing vehicle disguised as parties in clubs and venues around the country targeting college students for major brands like Monster Energy Drinks, Red Bull, Sabra, and many more. I designed and directed the brand's marketing and creative, handling everything from promotional marketing and event signage to microsites and car wraps.

Rebranded, redesigned, and pivoted StudentArtStore.com (originally described as "eBay for Art") into Endless Room: a gallery, marketplace, and social network for the art world. We envisioned an "endless room" for every artist, gallery, collector, and art lover on earth, in which they could buy, sell, share, and experience art. After brokering initial angel investments and designing and building a working beta, I resigned from my position due to creative differences regarding brand and strategic direction.

While living in Tokyo I founded a not-for-profit organization dedicated to bringing artists together to creating international group exhibitions in major cities. Our mission was to use the power of art and human experience to engage people in a conversation about important but neglected issues in our increasingly global society.

Cupertino, California, Us

Working for Apple has been a dream of mine since the first computer I ever used was a Macintosh SE/30 in 1989. After becoming an expectant father-to-be, and before moving to NYC, I worked for six months in the Chestnut Hill Apple Store to supplement my income from clients. I turned down the position of Genius because I enjoyed the sales floor and the higher level of personal interaction with customers.Personal highlight: I once helped a group of missionary nuns purchase an iPod Shuffle as a birthday present for one of the more elderly sisters; they had not factored in the tax, and they were $10 short. Their monastery was a full day's drive away, and nuns do not have credit cards, so I paid for the difference. A week later they came back to express their gratitude with a thank you card signed by all the sisters and a blessed vial of holy water from the Dead Sea.

Directed rebranding of subsidiaries of the $400M engineering conglomerate.

Joined ADC Young Guns Award-Winner Zak Kyes in servicing a wide range of design clients, from wineries and coffee shops to museums and fashion companies. Handled all aspects of website design and development, from designing and hand-coding websites to client and project management.

At age 12, my first business was an IT support service company focusing on small business network maintenance and in-home training for adults and children in computers, email, the internet, and more. I handled new client acquisition, teaching, installation, network maintenance, on-site and phone IT support, invoicing, book keeping, and all other aspects of the business.

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