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  • Webmaster for St. Stephen's Episcopal School. Site redesign wins an award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

  • Design and Usability Strategist for DELL. Strategized site re-design and improved information architecture and navigation in order to improve conversion for the Dell consumer site which generates 10 billion in annual sales.
  • Art Director at Agillion.com. Site re-design received Blue Ribbon as one of the "101 Best Business Web sites for 2001" and was a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's Codie Awards for "Best Commercial B2B Web Site."
  • living.com home page re-design featured in cover story of Web Techniques magazine, August 2000.
  • Received the SXSW Texas Interactive Multimedia Award for Innovative Design, March 2000.
  • Designed the Amazon.com Home Page for the Home Living Amazon.com merger and site launch, June 2000.
  • Joined living.com as their Art Director to spearhead their major re-design effort in August 1999.

  • Received certificate in Macromedia Training from the Ojai Digital Arts Center, March 1999

  • Featured in Texas Monthly's first issue of Biz Magazine in an article on multimedia whizzes in Texas, March 1999.

  • Served as a panelist in the Generation Tech panel of SXSW Interactive '99.

 

Art Director at Agillion.com. Lead site re-design which won several B2B web site effectiveness awards by industry groups.

Conceptualized and directed all art and interface design for living.com. Led photo shoots and managed image archive. Created smart, user-centered navigation scheme. Designed award-winning Room-Designer.

Designed the MicronPC and DELL online stores with frogdesign. The DELL website spanned 30 languages in 80 countries and currently sells $40 million per day.

Produced and Art Directed the Whole Foods Market web site. Designed the information architecture and created an easily navigable interface. Coded hundreds of pages of HTML for the Internet and Kiosk which is in use in 40 stores across the country.

Coordinated graphic efforts through the conceptualization, design, and production phases to ensure quality and efficiency of design. Coded instructional material for three CD-ROMs in Authorware and Director. Reviewed and contributed to design documents, storyboards, etc.

agillion
living.com
frogdesign
WholeFoodsMarket
Austin Chapter of IICS

9/00 - spring/01
8/99 - 8/00
4/99 - 8/99
1997 - 3/99
1997
 
 
Programmed an interactive grammar CD-ROM for middle and high school students for Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in Authorware. Developed tutorials and complex user interactions. Language Workshop won the following awards: 1998 National Educational Media Network Silver Apple 1997 International Cinema in Industry (CINDY) Gold 1996 New York Festivals SILVER WORLDMEDAL.

Texas Learning Technology Group
Cortex Communications

 1995 - 1997
1995
 
In 1994, to the best of my knowledge, I was the first designer in Texas to have a web site. I founded online design firm, arts electronica to provide internet consulting, coding, and online design. Created HTML, graphics, animation, and interactive Shockwave demos for numerous web sites.

arts electronica

1994 - present
 
Texas Library Association's Janeway Scholarship ($2K), 1994-95
President's Honor Roll, all semesters, Rice University
Herbert and Helen Allen Scholarship in Fine Arts ($6K), 1991-92
Jameson Fellowship in Art History ($8K), 1990-91
Rice University Art Department Award ($1K), 1990 & 1992
 
Commissioned to produce sculpture for commercial and private interests.

2000 Web Techniques Magazine, "The Evolution of Brand Strategy." August.
1999 Texas Monthly's Biz Magazine, "Generation Tech," March.
1996 Designed Sematech poster.
1995 "CD-ROM and Multimedia" chapter and illustrations in Communication Technology Update, 4th Edition, ed. August E. Grant. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.
1992 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston. May.
1992 Houston Metropolitan. page 30. January.
1991 Houston Post. Section A, page 11. February 11.
1991 Rice Thresher. Front Page. Vol. 78, No. 22. January 25.
1991 ricereader. Front Page. Vol. 2, No. 10. February 4.
1991 Sallyport Magazine. Rice University. page 4. Winter 1991.
1991 The War Show. Fountainhead Gallery, Houston. May.
1991 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston. May.
1990 Jewish Herald-Voice. Volume LXXXII, No. 4, April 26.
1990 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston. May.
1989 The University Blue, Rice University, Houston, Volume VI.
1989 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston. May.
1988 Hobart Park. Davidson College, North Carolina. Winter.
1988 Design Space. Davidson, North Carolina. April.
 
Master of Information Science, 1995
Graduated Beta Phi Mu, Dean's List All Semesters
University of Texas

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1992
Rice University

Bachelor of Arts, Art History and Archaeology, 1991
Graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Dean's List All Semesters
Rice University

Computer nerd since 1982. 8-)