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Greater New York City Area

North Street is an independently-owned NYC-based creative services and digital strategy agency. We exist to engineer the thoughtful transformation and success of great organizations.By leveraging data, emotion, and craft, we produce exceptional corporate identities, websites, and marketing materials that win and retain the attention of our clients’ most valuable audiences.We partner with clients big and small: from multi-billion dollar financial institutions and Fortune 100 companies to startups and consumer brands.

New York, Ny

North Street Creative, Inc. is an independently-owned NYC-based design/digital shop.Founded in 2010, we're a small, tight-knit group that shares a mutual obsession for typography, texture, patterns, color and all things interactive. We excel at designing and building websites, and we're in love with branding and print work. We do some fun tinkering with the Google Maps, Instagram and Twitter APIs, and we've been known to dabble in some Ruby.We've executed designs and builds for a wide range of clients including Condé Nast, Louis Vuitton, Moet, Hennessy, Sony, Ralph Lauren, and YouTube. We pride ourselves on high-quality design, an expert grasp of technology, and our responsiveness to the needs of our clients.We produce big agency work with a boutique sensibility.

Regularly contribute articles to top media pubs, which include Wired, Men's Journal, Popular Science, Maxim, Inked, WWE Magazine, Boston and Style.com.Served as a founding editor on the launches of WWE Kids magazine, AOL's Switched.com and GeekChicDaily.com.Wrote a weekly personal tech column for PopSci.com from 2008 to 2010.

Conceptualize and design interactive and print creative. Wireframe, code and animate HTML/CSS/JavaScript templates.Design and configure content management systems in PHP/MySQL/Wordpress. Clients past and present include Alison Brod PR, Bourjois Cosmetics, Crain’s New York Business, Fast Company, Old Navy and Physicians Formula as well as small businesses, local organizations and individuals.

Responsible for researching, planning, writing, editing, and the production of several regular sections of the magazine, as well as feature stories. Areas of coverage included, but were not limited to technology, science, health, sports, finance, fitness, food and drink, video games, books and home improvement.Forged relationships and worked daily with publicists from the categories listed above.Interviewed a wide variety of subjects including celebrities, business executives, authors, athletes, experts and regular people with amazing stories.Oversaw both junior editorial staff and members of the Fashion and Grooming department in the organization, planning, content, writing, editing and production of their respective stories and sections.Developed and maintained an active network of freelance writers, working closely with them to ensure ideas and copy reflected the spirit of FHM. Top-edited original features, interviews and reviews produced by the online staff for FHMUS.com.Worked closely with fellow senior staff to generate unique story ideas, as well as to determine long-term, big-picture goals for the magazine.Built strong relationships between the Editorial and Creative departments, consequently improving the quality, efficiency and organization of text, photo shoots and layouts.Closely tracked the overall media landscape in order to stay on the pulse of industry news, relevant story content and competitive media.

Responsible for all HTML, JavaScript, ASP and database coding for FHMUS.com.Conceptualized and created all site graphics for monthly magazine features and interviews, Web-exclusive stories, giveaways, surveys, micro-sites and internal advertising.Developed strategies to improve site traffic, navigation and ease of use, resulting most notably in a 2002 site re-launch, which tripled traffic.Oversaw online assistants and freelancers.Ensured the editorial voice of the print product was maintained online through design and tone. Wrote feature stories and edited the video games section for the print edition of FHM. This led to a full transfer to the print side as an Assistant Editor.

Diagnosed and reprogrammed site-wide usability and compatibility issues, and optimized code for CNET.com and News.com.Created HTML templates for internal project management tools.Coordinated with the Design and Search Technologies departments to re-launch the site's search engine.Integrated search functions from newly-acquired Web site, mySimon.com, into existing CNET sites.

Managed relationships between the Design, Development, and Commerce departments during the re-launches of the Computer Shopper and FamilyPC Web sites.Translated flat Photoshop mock-ups into functional HTML templates for several ZDNet sites, including Back to School, Computer Shopper, FamilyPC, and Future Home. Integrated interactive Flash experiences into ZDNet’s Digital Camera Supercenter and Ultimate College Guide.Produced story pages for such sites as Buyer’s Alert, Digital Camera Supercenter, FamilyPC, PC Magazine, Ultimate College Guide and ZDNet Reviews.Researched, wrote and edited content for FamilyPC’s Web site.

B.A., Media Studies, History

Activities and Societies: Lambda Pi Eta, (Communication Studies Honor Society)

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