At Tortus I was a member of a four-man design team. I handled site creation, from initial client meetings through launch, and also helped develop details of the production department's work process. My design challenges at Tortus were highly varied, ranging from putting together utilitarian online banking sites to the more creative jobs, like Lego educational and Dr. Seuss Memorial pages. In almost all cases I was presented with the challenge of matching a "house style" or complementing an existing graphic element.

• Full website design production from mockup through site launch
• HTML creation using both editors and hand-coding
• Extensive Photoshop use
• Creation of basic Flash animations
• Creation of animated GIFs
• Limited Javascript creation/installation
• Developed designs and templates for client online/e-mail promotions
• Integrated my designs with the code of the company's programmers (EPerl & Javascript)
• Logo design
  
  

• Aided in development and refinement of production department processes
• Worked under and met key project deadlines
• Worked hand in hand with the sales team and client in order to bring a site's vision and structure into sharp focus
• Developed house web design guidelines based on usability and technical advancement
  
  

Cyberlore Studios is an independent computer game development house working with the industry's major publishers and using both Macintosh and PC. In my six-year stint at Cyberlore, I covered nearly all roles but programmer. I began as an artist, moved up to art director, over to game designer, then finished as project producer. Along the way I was the company's first internal webmaster. It was a varied job through which I helped the company grow from a staff of four to thirty two.

• Initial creation of company website
• Design and assembly of company promotional videos
• Logo design
• Interface creation
• Creation of 2D bitmap art and animations
• Creation of 3D models and animations
• Cinematic storyboard creation
  

Game Design

• Interface design
• Promotional copywriting
• Writing voice scripts for in-game characters
• Direction of voice talent in recording studio
• Software manual text creation
• New concept creation

Management

• Successfully management of a $1.7M, two-year project for Hasbro and overseeing the budget
• Supervision of a 16 person in-house production team as well as an international support team
• Coordination of all project-specific outside contractors
• Publisher liaison
• Coordinating software foreign language translations
• Hiring
• Member of the company management board
• QC supervision

Cimex is a producer of specialized, proprietary CAD software used to drive laser-cutting devices for a number of applications, though they are primarily focused on the box making industry. My role included on-site hardware / software installation and training, as well as post-sale tech support.

• On-site software training
• Assembly, configuration, and calibration of hardware and peripherals (PCs, plotters, digitizers)
• Phone based tech support
• Users manual writing and layout
• Trade show representation

As a contractor I created innumerable illustrations, logos, and technical drawings for many of the significant publishers of the paper-and-pen role-playing/strategy game market. Another component of my work was lettering for several comic book publishers, including Mirage Studios, Tundra Publishing, and Spiderbaby Graphix.

• Creation of illustrations done to publisher spec and under deadlines
• Production of art for established licensed intellectual properties
• Logo design
• Comic book lettering (calligraphy)
  

Digest Group was a small press publisher producing licensed materials for the printed role-playing game market. It was the first in that field to capitalize on desktop publishing technology. The company grew with a conservative budget through clever applications of new technologies. Though I had no ownership in the company, my role was often treated as that of a partner in guiding the company direction. Digest Group was a virtual company, before such a entity came into the public consciousness.

Art

• Establishing a graphic look for the entire product line
• Logo design
• Internal layout of many company products
• Advertising material production
• Illustration

Editorial

• Editor of quarterly, 96-page magazine
• Manuscript editing
• Manuscript/article creation
• Planning/design of editorial content
• Ad copy

Management &
Operations

• Contractor coordination
• Trade show representation
• Distributor liaison
• Development of marketing strategies and company growth strategies

Working out of the main Hatfield office, I coordinated all the advertising layouts from the New Haven office sales reps. My job was to assemble these ads, based on thumbnail layouts, or farm out any overflow to the floating production staff. They often required designer's eye to add balance and punch up the layouts. Solid print deadlines drove every production week.

• Advertising design/layout refinement
• Manual paste-up
• In-house team coordination
• Interoffice liaison
• Dark room work
• Typesetting
  

I worked with this small commercial interior design firm as a draftsman doing layout and some construction plans. Over time I began to do some basic layout design. The company designed retail spaces, specializing in shoe store layouts.

• Created basic layout and architectural drawings on vellum
• Basic store layouts
• Produced company catalog