Ryan Shafer Email & Phone Number

Italy

Remote

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Greater New York City Area

Managed and led a team of 15+ Art Directors, Visual Designers, and User Experience/Product Designers to deliver a spectrum of experiences across a range of devices and platforms.Key Successes & Responsibilities ⁃ Established the first, user-centered design team⁃ Increased MTV's web traffic by 3x, while reducing 60% of experience debt⁃ Part of a team that.

Greater New York City Area

Managed and led a team of 8 visual designers, whose goals was to improve the quality of design while assisting the organization's drive to turn around business and create amazing content for our audience.Key Successes- Promoted to Vice President of User Experience and Design, expanding role to include LogoTV and CMT brands- Helped build new online event.

Greater New York City Area

Managed and art directed a team of visual designers, whose goal was to build the online presence of a focused, up and coming entertainment platform focused on the LGBT community.Key Successes- Promoted to Design Director - MTV & VH1 Digital- Collaborated with Vice President and Design Director of On-Air Creative to develop digital brand- Partnered with.

Greater New York City Area

Lead designer for new TV channel and online presence focused on the LGBT community.Key Successes- Promoted to Art Director - LogoTV- Lead designer for all digital design initiatives- Established online design aesthetic and site styleguide- Developed XML driven Flash components to display realtime poll results for television and web- Collaborated with front.

Greater New York City Area

Design team member of MTV's digital music store, URGE, a competitor of Apple's iTunes Music Store.Key Successes- Worked under an art director to design icons, graphics, buttons, in-store page and customer outreach email layouts- Designed, drew and painted over 50 tiling headers to illustrate genre personality- Developed applescripts to process MTV and.

Greater New York City Area

Lead designer and video editor for a botique production company with experience in documenting real estate development project and television spots for telecommunications and banking.- Designed and animated motion graphics for a range of video production projects- Edited multiple broadcast quality commercials- Collaborated with color correcting.

Greater Boston Area

In-Game Graphic Designer for a startup game company focusing on making music more accessible and fun to play with friends. Key Successes- Hired after a summer internship- Worked under the Art Director to design/animate looping texture maps for FREQUENCY, a Playstation2 music video game- Designed, animated, edited a promotional video for FREQUENCY to be.