Freelance Digital Designer

Analog Cases, Los Angeles, CA
July 2020 – Present

Designed company logos, Shopify and Amazon e-commerce sites

Color corrected, refined and retouched product photos for over a hundred individual cases, stands, apparel and backpacks

Created social media posts, Google ads, Klaviyo email campaigns and promotional videos

Art Director

Gumgum Inc., Santa Monica, CA
April 2012 – April 2020

Designed and maintained a consistent brand across Gumgum’s websites, product suite, presentations, newsletter, print collateral and promotional material

Provided product design and specifications for over 20 different types of responsive (desktop, tablet and mobile sized) ads tailored to individual performance metrics

Interviewed, hired, trained and managed a small team of visual designers and animators

Senior UI Designer

Zynga Inc., Cambridge, MA
August 2010 – October 2011

Created the initial wireframe, user flow and final skinned interface for Adventure World, a casual Facebook game

Refined the game interface and onboarding flows based on metrics, feedback and focus group testing

Created a forum and blog, and drew dozens of icons, pieces of concept art, backgrounds, animations and other game assets

Web, Interaction Design

Art direction, product design, UI and UX design, research and prototyping, responsive web design, wireframing, HTML, CSS, Javascript, WordPress, Squarespace, WIX

Video, Motion Design, Animation

Adobe After Effects, Premiere, editing, compositing, storyboarding, 2d web animation in Flash and Tumult Hype

Graphic Design

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, layout, file pre-press and color separation for print

Illustration

Hand-drawn, traditional and digital illustration and concept art in a variety of styles and media

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
B.F.A. in Computer Art

Graduated cum laude, Golden Key National Honor Society member