Freelance User Interface Designer

Feb 01 - Present, Boston MA

My specialty is the creation of complete customer experiences — both functional flow and visual styling — for Internet applications and services. As a Creative Director, I bridge the gap between creativity and technology and frequently act as overall project leader to create an experience that meets the needs of the customer, aligns with the strategic goals of the business and brand, and best leverages the available technology.

BaseSix Interactive

Creative Director, Nov 99 - Feb 01, Boston MA

Developed the visual and interface designs for several web projects including CMGI, ChurchPlaza, TechOnline. Established the studio's usability design practice, creating standards and templates for addressing usability issues: requirements gathering, site maps, and detailed interactive prototypes.

Associated New Media

(Internet division of Associated Newspapers, publishers of the Daily Mail and London Evening Standard)
Head of Design, Jun 97 - Jun 99, London England

Designed This Is London, a comprehensive city guide that was voted Best UK Site in 1998 by two major web awards bodies. Also designed the Oracle-based publishing tools used by the journalists to manage the daily content of the site. I also created the site design and publishing system for This Is Money, a personal finance site, and led a team of five designers and programmers responsible for other internet titles.

Nets Inc.

(merger of AT&T New Media and Industry.net)
Design Director, Aug 96 - Mar 97, Cambridge MA

Led a team of six Web designers producing the Industry.net and AT&T Business Network Web sites. In addition to overall interface design and art direction, I developed HTML templates for use by other designers, standardized and documented the use of extended tags and add-ons, and incorporated new Internet technologies as they became viable for broad customer acceptance.

AT&T New Media

(originally Ziff-Davis Interactive)
Senior Interactive Designer, Nov 91 - Aug 96, Cambridge MA

Founding member of the design team behind Ziff-Davis's Interchange Online Network, a ground-breaking online publishing system that pre-dated the web by several years. I was one of the key contributors to most aspects of its design, especially those involving presentation standards and technologies.

Lightspeed Inc.

Designer Sep 87 - Oct 88, Product Manager, Oct 88 - Aug 91, Boston MA

Responsible for interface design of early color Macintosh design workstation. Starting with version 1.5, I dramatically expanded the text composition features and added PostScript to its output formats. I wrote documentation, developed marketing videos and multimedia product demos, and generally drove the vision of the product.

Imagination Center

(Computer art systems spin-off of Adcom Inc., a graphic arts retailer)
Designer, Tech Support, "Demo Guy" Jul 84 - Sep 87, Washington DC

Desktop publishing had not happened yet. Our six-person company sold computer art workstations and services to design studios and production shops. At that time, few designers had ever applied computers to their work before and much of my job was translating new technical concepts and tools into terms they were familiar with in the traditional layout and paste-up worlds. We were so small that I did all the internal graphics work, demonstrated products, developed training courses, and did all software support and troubleshooting. I also acted as the "hands" for designers renting studio time on the high-end systems without learning them themselves.