My eye for design is innate. As a child I organized my GI Joe’s by color. My OCD tendencies grew into pattern recognition. I take things apart and sometimes put them back together. My attention to detail and tinkering naturally led me to the world of design and development.
My career began in the humble bowels of a print shop in St. Louis, eventually catapulting me to help lead Fleishman’s digital team in New York City, where I’ve had opportunities to work with some of the most talented designers and developers in the world on global brands and projects. From basements to mountain tops, I’m now a global citizen and design is my life.
I live a life of absurdity and attempt the impossible. I juxtapose opposing patterns and people. I focus my positive disruptions on communication and education. Outside of the office, I utilize my design and leadership skills to produce events in NYC and run my own Burning Man camp.
Burning Man is an unparalleled coalescence of art, culture, and social responsibility. My camp, which fills a geodesic tea lounge with typewriters, focuses on participatory creative writing through exquisite corpse style workshops and exercises in an effort to expand and appreciate the art of communication.
ART is my life (and my initials).
Projects
- Shimmer AppFlyby Media combined their two core technologies – image recognition and indoor mapping – to create Shimmer, a storytelling based, in-store customer experience app designed to help customers discover products, unlock deals, and find their way around the store. The company was negotiating its third round of funding before being bought out by Apple. As their Creative Director and Product Design Lead, I was responsible for all of the design work, from the app UI/UX to the branding and marketing materials. I also took on the role of Web Development Lead, doing front-end development and overseeing the architecture of the consumer site and CMS.
Skills
- Sketch
- Adobe Create Suite
- Css3/less/sass
- Html/html5
- Jquery
- Wordpress
- Php/mysql
- Sublime Text
- Digital Designer Web Designer UI UX
- Client Interaction