Résumé

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA

B.A., Business Administration — Concentrations in Marketing and Advertising
(1993-1997)

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxfordshire, England

Graduate curriculum in Creative Advertising and Management
(1996)

Professional Experience

Founding CEO and Designer

Newsvine.com (acquired by msnbc.com), Seattle, WA

8/05 to present

  • Founded online participatory news media company, featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time Magazine, BusinessWeek, TechCrunch, and many other publications. Acquired 10/5/2007 by msnbc.com.
  • Provide user experience and design vision for company.
  • Manage staff of employees and oversee all company operations.

Art Director & Manager of Media Product Development

ESPN.com / Walt Disney Internet Group, Seattle, WA

2/01 to 6/05

  • Provided design and art direction for web properties, broadband applications, streaming media, and other high profile online initiatives within Disney and ESPN.
  • Managed multimedia, broadband, and other special applications within Disney sites such as ESPN.com, ABC.com, and Movies.com.
  • Authored CSS/XHTML coding and design standards for site redesigns.
  • Represented Disney and ESPN at design/technology conferences.
  • Designed, developed, and deployed Flash applications, event packages, live gamecasts, fantasy sports games, and other content on ESPN.
  • Taught Flash, XHTML, and CSS to ESPN, ABC News, and other network-affiliated employees.

Creative Director

Seasonticket.com, Seattle, WA

3/00 to 11/00

  • Provided creative strategy and art direction to a team of web designers and developers.
  • Designed and developed company’s identity elements and propagated them across all media.
  • Represented company at multimedia conferences and evangelized technology to potential partners.

Creative Director

Digital Sherpas, Seattle, WA

2/99 to 3/00

  • Provided creative strategy, art direction, and copywriting for a team of web designers and developers.
  • Start-to-finish concepting, design, and production of high-profile, award-winning web sites.
  • Sites designed include: New York Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Wild, K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Bikes, K2 Skates, State of Alaska, Bellevue Square, and The Space Needle.

Art Director

AAG/Costacos Sports, Inc., Seattle, WA

9/97 to 2/99

  • Designed and wrote copy for world’s top selling NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB posters.
  • Authored and created marketing materials and business-to-business presentations.
  • Designed, administered, and oversaw all aspects of corporate web site.

Software

  • Languages: XHTML, HTML5, ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, English
  • Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
  • Adobe: Photoshop CS (expert), Illustrator CS (expert), Flash CS (expert)
  • Microsoft: Word (expert), Excel (advanced), PowerPoint (advanced)
  • Miscellaneous: TextMate, WordPress, Movable Type, Eclipse, Coda

Awards and Recognition

  • Webby Award — five time winner (best sports site, people’s choice best sports site)
  • Macromedia Site of the Day — for K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Skates, and K2 Bikes
  • Envision Award — three time winner (best overall site, best streaming video site, and best sports site on the net)
  • Seattle Show Award — six-time winner (two golds, two silvers, two merits, and a Best of Show runner-up)
  • Seattle Online Network Award — Best Site to Kill Time On (Seasonticket.com)
  • CoolHomePages.com — Multiple works on display
  • Featured on the cover of the 2000 Macromedia Annual Report
  • Featured in Print Magazine
  • Member Emeritus of Seattle Show Board of Directors
  • Designed Safeco Field inaugural ticket and all commemorative tickets for the Mariners on a recurring basis
  • Designed world’s first virtual observation decks in Flash

Speaking Engagements

  • Online News Association (ONA) Conference Speaker
  • An Event Apart (AEA) Seattle Speaker
  • Webstock Speaker
  • Interactive Media Conference Speaker
  • Syndicate Conference Speaker
  • SXSW Conference Speaker
  • WebVisions Conference Speaker
  • DV/Web Video Expo expert panelist
  • Flash Forward expert panelist
  • Instructor of Advanced Web Design and Advanced Flash classes at the School of Visual Concepts
  • Creative Assets and ArtSource seminars
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Gale force winds applied directly to people’s faces. (via @itscolossal)

Fungible:

An excellent, must-read treatise by Stijn Debrouwere about how journalism is slowly being replaced by other services which perform journalistic duties (inform, entertain, etc.) without being journalistic entities unto themselves. Examples include Netflix reviews, Quora Q&A threads, and the like:

There are organizations and websites everywhere that are taking over newspapers’ role as tastemaker and watchdog and forum. These disruptors don’t replace investigative reporting, but they replace the other 95% of what made professional news organizations important.

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever:

Fascinating article about how memories work and how we are very close to being able to biologically destroy them.

“Memory comes with a natural updating mechanism, which is how we make sure that the information taking up valuable space inside our head is still useful. That might make our memories less accurate, but it probably also makes them more relevant to the future.”

How The Huffington Post Ate the Internet:

This is the best article about the Huffington Post that’s ever been written. If you care at all about business or the news industry, it’s an absolute must read. Whether you love or hate HuffPo, the story of how they rose to prominence is fascinating and instructive. When you’re done, also make sure to check out this 1983 New York Magazine article about Arianna (then) Stassinopoulos.

The Daily Show on Easter vs. Passover. When you’re done with part one (above), make sure and check out part two. I guarantee it’s the funniest thing you’ve seen all week.

The “worst” baseball cards in history… which of course means they’re the best. The Bill Pecota one is particularly great. Thanks Fleer! (via @gruber)

Stamen's Beautiful Alternative to Google Maps:

Using OpenStreetMap data, Stamen Design has taken map design to a new level. I love these. Goodbye Google Maps? (via jasonsantamaria)

How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web:

A fascinating story about the Samwer brothers and their lucrative-but-icky-feeling business model: identify American internet companies right after they become successful in America and then clone them internationally, to great financial success.

In today’s episode of Our Stadium is Better than Your Stadium… play this full-screen with the volume cranked.

Children’s Classics as Minimalist Posters: These are amazing. I particularly like the Princess and the Pea poster.

Did You Hear We Got Osama?:

This is a really great post; one of the clearest, most concise, and personally important ones I’ve read in a long time. It’s important to understand that the reason most people consume news is in order to entertain themselves. This isn’t the aspirational reason… it’s just the true reason, in most cases. If you can get your news consumption refined to the point where you are staying amply-informed without being overwhelmed, you stand to be a lot more productive.

NFL Logos Redrawn with Manningface. This is fantastic.

Solitude and Leadership:

Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people’s ideas, or memorizing a body of information…

Takes a little while to get going, but overall a great article about the virtues of seeking solitude from distractions in order to develop your own original thoughts.

“I think you’ve got a pretty good imagination, despicability-wise!”

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