I am an experienced and creative web designer with ambitious energy. In my portfolio you will find a broad range of projects from complete website re-designs to flash websites and games. I am truly inspired by something new everyday.

EXPERIENCE

New York Times Regional Media Group Tampa, FL 33614
November 2007 – current
Interactive Designer
Supported our corporate strategy for centralizing web development for the New York Times Company Regional Media Group made up of more than 20 local newspaper websites, content verticals and blogs. I am the central design team and I created all base templates and content design options then built by our developers within our CMS, used by all employees in the local newsrooms to put together their homepages daily. Also designed and array of interactive elements including web pages, a custom video player all with an attention for the best web experience.

WGBH Interactive Boston, MA 02134
March 2007 – September 2007 and January 2000 – December 2002
Interactive Designer
Cooperated with a team of producers, writers and developers to brainstorm the new game concept, then sketch out the game flow and moving parts and wireframe the interface. Following review I designed and initiated the front-end Flash development. These games were created to match the brands such as Curious George, Arthur, ZOOM, Between the Lions, The Greens and Design Squad. These games were completed well within their tight deadlines with amazing results proved in the number of kids using these educational tools.

BBC London, England
August 2004 – December 2006
Interactive Designer / Lead Interactive Designer
BBC Weather
Organized and led the creative direction of BBC Weather New Media designing for multiple platforms including an initial re-design of the Weather website, interactive TV screens, and a re-design of the BBC Weather mobile page built using xhtml all in support of the internationally recognized BBC Weather brand.

BBC iF&L
Designed and assisted development of an interactive archive library of BBC broadband video clips; the interface allows teachers to dynamically browse, easily access and download video clips to use in their classrooms as supplementary material to their lessons.

BBC New Media
Facilitated content changes to the high profile bbc.co.uk homepage by re-designing, with particular attention to the semantics for screen readers and visual challenged users, and re-structuring, using UCD methods such as card sorting, the way in which the abundance of information on this page is viewed to create a more visually pleasing, accessible and usable web resource.

CBBC Children’s Interactive
Designed educational websites and interactive widgets, social media tools and Flash games for kids. Design was an essential factor used to embrace the values and guidelines associated with the BBC brand and other strong brands including Teletubies, X-change and the Really Wild Show.

EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
September 1998 – graduated March 2003
Dual Major Bachelor of Science in Visual Art/Graphic Design and Multimedia Studies.

Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA
September 1996 – graduated August 1998
Associate Degree in General Studies and a Certificate in Computer Aided Drafting.