PROFILE
I have been fortunate to work on projects related to my passions. I'm currently very interested in User Experience, Open Source communities, (I'm nearly obsessed with Drupal), e-learning and augmented reality. I'm a successful entrepreneur, seasoned traveler and lifelong student. A digital "hack-of-all-trades" I am well versed with all the major, (and a surprising number of minor) digital media & development tools. And I thrive on solving complicated challenges with elegant solutions, on time and on budget.
EXPERIENCE
CURRENT
Manager Web Productions / Aircell / Itasca, IL / October 2009 - Present
Product Manager on the Product Team for Gogo Inflight Internet
- Champion the User Experience, vet & develop proof of concept features
- Manage front end development team
- Produce & maintain complete wireframes & specifications docs for all web properties & services
- Created the Gogo Mile High Badge with foursquare.com
- Work with business development on promotions, (recent efforts include partnerships with Google, eBay, AMEX, T-Mobile)
- Designed interface for mobile echat, (HTML), iPhone & BlackBerry apps
Airline Content Manager / Aircell / Itasca, IL / April 2008 - October 2009
- Responsible for all content on aircell.com & gogoinflight.com, and all airborne portals: American, Air Canada (EN & FR), AirTran, Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier, United, US Airways & Virgin America
- Manage external & in-house web development projects
- Run user acceptance testing, (Alpha & Beta) testing for all airborne portals, including
- Produce "build to spec", high fidelity wire frames, comps & final assets for off shore development teams
- Produce creative as needed, (HTML, Photoshop, Flash, etc)
PAST
Principal / Dig the Pixels / Chicago, IL / July 2004 - April 2008
Developing sites with the Drupal and the Docebo LMS. Highlights include;
- welovebeauty.com - a growing online community that focuses on the beauty industry. Its built on Drupal. Runner up for best designed Drupal site at Drupalcon 2008 Boston
- d7tv.com built on Drupal, even got a review on techcrunch.
- sitelogica.com - online training for site specific OSHA requirements, all projects were for client intranets.
Director, Online Productions / Cognistar / Southboro MA / July 1999 - July 2004
Sixth employee at startup. Became a leading provider of online continuing legal education and custom e-learning solutions with annual revenues over 2 MM USD.
- One of four person team that developed prototype and versions 1.0 - 3.5 of Courseware and Learning Management System.
- Managed small team created to capture, develop and edit video and rich media assets for all courses
- Instrumental in securing over $12 million in venture funding with developed prototypes, collateral and strategy.
- Helped VC Due Diligence in regards to strategic direction, production process, performance metrics & user experience.
- Designed process to capture, edit and encode all related media for courses, (meeting demanding time and budget restraints).
- Produced over 95 courses with development team, and sold over $1 million (USD) 2 years in a row.
- On site manager nationwide for subject matter expert’s taping, including: top legal experts, Federal, Elected & Judicial officials.
- Constantly evolved, researched & evaluated interface & experience of LMS, courseware, production and delivery technologies.
Online Producer / SkyMall / New York / October 1998 - July 1999
Successfully pitched Connected DVD concept to SkyMall Board of Directors. Hired to produce DVD to be included in SkyMall catalog to offer rich media products & services to online browser who are otherwise limited by connection speeds.
- Produced complete initial plan at corporate headquarters, transferred to acquired NYC agency Riptide to produce project.
- Staffed, managed and grew Riptide in relation to requirements of SkyMall project as well as other accounts.
- Developed Broadband, DTV & Connected DVD strategy and educational collateral on key concepts for VC road show.
- Produced proof of concept web browser based 3D e-commerce demo for connected DVD.
Web Developer / San Francisco, CA / January 1996 - October 1998
Freelanced in Bay Area, providing: 3D graphics, Flash development, video production and HTML coding.
- Produced marketing creative and web site for Netherlands based European SAP staffing company (including localized versions).
- Created several web sites and CD-ROM based projects for a variety of clients.
- Helped start ISYS-web.com, (now defunct), a full service web solutions provider.
- Crewed with video artists, Dimension 7, 1998 SF Civic Halloween, New Year’s in Maui 2000, Burningman 2000, 01 & 02.
Interactive Specialist / Life Fitness / Franklin Park, IL / October 1994 - January 1996
Worked for the Director of New Product Development during the entire life of the Exertainment system, an interactive and entertaining fitness product made in partnership with Nintendo Entertainment. I was involved in every major aspect of the product, including: research, development, production, marketing and customer support, for both North America and Europe.
- Worked on market research team for product development; including software, hardware and ergonomics.
- Worked on development team for commercial Exertainment System, both domestic and international models.
- Managed in-house testing programs for Nintendo approval of SNES titles, Mountain Bike Rally, Speed Racer and Tetris.
- Worked on 15 Life Fitness trade show events, promoting the Exertainment System across North America and UK.
- Developed interactive training, demonstrations and sales presentations for corporate wide use, (including localized versions).
EDUCATION
BA Liberal Arts /Architectural Theory
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ - August 1989 - May 1993
Student-at-large (neon & copper sculpture, oil and water painting)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
August 1987 - May 1989
