Thank you for taking a moment to have a look at my portfolio.
I’ve been in the online and print design field for some fifteen years, starting with a few minutes in PhotoShop back when it had two capital letters in the name. I’ve worked in sectors private and public, dealt with clients small and gigantic and managed to keep a sense of humor through it all. But before I tell you that story, I need to tell you this one.
I grew up variously in the Midwest and in New England, depending on how I decide to explain it. I may have resided in New England, but my upbringing, indeed my whole core persona, is based on wholesome, Midwestern pop-and-folk sensibilities. This is not to impugn the character of a New Englander; my feet have splashed in West-Running Brook and I believe that good fences make good neighbors.
I attended film school in Chicago, which was an interesting intersection of my Eastern childhood and my Midwestern heritage. Suffice to say that the storm-front that resulted created winds of over five hundred miles per hour and a force significant enough to hurl me across North America, the Pacific and ultimately to Japan, where I lived for a painfully brief time on the northern island of Hokkaido. There is where the Adult Me found its voice, amongst the pines and drifting snowflakes outside the zen Buddhist temple where I lived. Stories of my time there still echo across the mountains, and I understand there yet to be active rumors of great rejoicing should ever I return.
But that’s idle background. Professionally I’ve been involved in Instructional Design and visual storytelling since 1996, when I worked at UNH and helped make such blockbusters as “From Grass to Milk” and “The Route 16 Corridor.” The lessons I learned at the University have proven good ones, and I’ve used what I learned in the petroleum, medical and financial services industries. Storytelling and sharing information are my passions, and I really try to make the work fun both in production and consumption.
Somewhere in-between, I wound up in the Philippines, serving as cameraman for a Duke undergrad who was making a documentary on the Filipino “Jeepney Culture.” I don’t know if the show ever made it off campus, but I do know that I can: 1) survive a fall off a moving vehicle, 2) fix a Sony BetaCam in a rice paddy and 3) improvise a coaxial cable if needed. It was simply one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had.
Most recently, I was Director of Interactive Media for a financial-services marketing company currently located in Massachusetts. I spent six years there, and helped to bring it from a three to a twelve person company. My role was as Creative Director, Art Director, mentor, production designer and morale officer, and I strove to make it a comfortable, professional environment for my fellow mates as well as for clients who came a-calling.
Currently, I’m working on the follow-up to my first novel and trying to renovate my house. Not at the same time, but you’d probably already worked that out. And, truth be known, I’d love to get a dog, too.
I’ve been in the online and print design field for some fifteen years, starting with a few minutes in PhotoShop back when it had two capital letters in the name. I’ve worked in sectors private and public, dealt with clients small and gigantic and managed to keep a sense of humor through it all. But before I tell you that story, I need to tell you this one.
I grew up variously in the Midwest and in New England, depending on how I decide to explain it. I may have resided in New England, but my upbringing, indeed my whole core persona, is based on wholesome, Midwestern pop-and-folk sensibilities. This is not to impugn the character of a New Englander; my feet have splashed in West-Running Brook and I believe that good fences make good neighbors.
I attended film school in Chicago, which was an interesting intersection of my Eastern childhood and my Midwestern heritage. Suffice to say that the storm-front that resulted created winds of over five hundred miles per hour and a force significant enough to hurl me across North America, the Pacific and ultimately to Japan, where I lived for a painfully brief time on the northern island of Hokkaido. There is where the Adult Me found its voice, amongst the pines and drifting snowflakes outside the zen Buddhist temple where I lived. Stories of my time there still echo across the mountains, and I understand there yet to be active rumors of great rejoicing should ever I return.
But that’s idle background. Professionally I’ve been involved in Instructional Design and visual storytelling since 1996, when I worked at UNH and helped make such blockbusters as “From Grass to Milk” and “The Route 16 Corridor.” The lessons I learned at the University have proven good ones, and I’ve used what I learned in the petroleum, medical and financial services industries. Storytelling and sharing information are my passions, and I really try to make the work fun both in production and consumption.
Somewhere in-between, I wound up in the Philippines, serving as cameraman for a Duke undergrad who was making a documentary on the Filipino “Jeepney Culture.” I don’t know if the show ever made it off campus, but I do know that I can: 1) survive a fall off a moving vehicle, 2) fix a Sony BetaCam in a rice paddy and 3) improvise a coaxial cable if needed. It was simply one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had.
Most recently, I was Director of Interactive Media for a financial-services marketing company currently located in Massachusetts. I spent six years there, and helped to bring it from a three to a twelve person company. My role was as Creative Director, Art Director, mentor, production designer and morale officer, and I strove to make it a comfortable, professional environment for my fellow mates as well as for clients who came a-calling.
Currently, I’m working on the follow-up to my first novel and trying to renovate my house. Not at the same time, but you’d probably already worked that out. And, truth be known, I’d love to get a dog, too.