As a consultant, freelancer and hired hand, I have been asked to design and built web sites, create interactive animation, develop corporate collateral, and produce product and package design.
Most recently contracting with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas city to re-design the front end user interface for all six of their web portals. This ongoing project requires my expertise in creating an attractive and contemporary look and feel, strong, consistent branding and intuitive design. The result keep this very public, very visible company looking fresh and up to date to the many providers, members, brokers, consumers and employers who rely on the website daily.I have also analyzed and synthesized complex schedules, management programs and business dealings into easy to digest timelines, charts and newsletters and animated movies.

Working with Marvel Entertainment, I have Illustrated high profile trading card sets as well as ads featuring Spiderman, X-men, the Fantastic Four and many other characters.

Many start-ups, not for profits and small businesses have called on me to design and build websites from scratch. Larger corporations have used my skills with design, html and css to improve their web presence. With textbook publishers, I have illustrated many educational materials and books.

Freelancing for all four local television news entities, I have produced hundreds of Courtroom Illustrations for over 30 high profile trials, some of which have been broadcast regionally and nationally.

My list of clients, types of projects, and skills continues to grow. I continue to learn and adapt. 

•Clients include: Andrews McMeel Universal, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Commerce Bank, KMBC TV, Plaza Merchants Association, St. Luke’s Hospital, Simon & Shuster, Marvel Entertainment, NFL, NBA, Sprint, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Crayola and Nabisco.

Coordinating the interface, design and animation of unique interactive elements in creation of patient portals, eBooks, mobile apps and web sites. Bridging Art, Technology and Medicine.

As a founding partner, I designed the branding and look for the entire enterprise. As an online marketing business, the web site serves as the storefront and public face. The welcoming and easy to interact with design allowed Muncharoo to quickly become the most successful local business of it's kind. Before selling the daily deals end of the business to a larger national enterprise, I worked with over five hundred merchant clients to create daily promotions. With my staff, we researched, wrote and edited descriptive text, headlines and highlights as well as photographing and creating custom images. We broadcast the deals to over sixty thousand subscribers from an email database that we managed to build through social media and promotional concepts. Creating the business concept, brand look and feel and web market place from the bottom up demanded many technical and creative skills. The ongoing management with daily deadlines and upgrades challenged dedication and flexible thinking. We are now working on new and more exciting ideas that will once again require that I discover new methods to improve my skillset.

At Family Features, I re-designed the company's two private and two public web sites, as well as numerous specialty sites and landing pages. I also designed and built flash-based tutorials and demonstrations in addition to interactive widgets that were integrated into independent web sites nationally. And on the print side, I designed full page editorial features and all the business and marketing materials.

• Supervised the design and creation of support materials for large national meetings of multi-million dollar companies such as IHOP, Popeye’s, and Pella Windows.• Finalized themes, logos, emblems, and branding schemes used across entire yearlong campaigns. Also created web sites used for registration of thousands of participants. These materials communicated complex schedules, themes and activities to employees and guests.• Managed Creative Department and increased efficiency by analyzing systems and upgrading software and hardware. Trained and mentored staff and contractors.

• Designed, built and maintained several trade magazine web sites as well as the corporate web site and much of the Intranet for this 150 million-dollar publisher of over 100 magazines. A strong command of HTML and extensive experience with graphic design were used to create user-friendly web sites that drove traffic and increased value and reach of the magazines. • Advanced to lead designer of an eighteen-member web development department, focused on multimedia design, both graphic and navigational, to create interesting and intuitive user interfaces. A particular interest in motion graphics led toward using vector animation and streaming video to create a richer interactive experience. • Represented New Media department on four-member team that launched first corporate intranet, which allowed consistent connection to employees in dozens of offices located internationally. Created animated teaser campaign and tutorials that facilitated user acceptance. Designed graphical user interface, managed news input and trained key personnel in administration.