-\\ STATUS

As of 2009, I'm happily employed with a team of smart and wonderful people at Phinney Bischoff Design House and NOT seeking employment. I will consider small evening/weekend projects on a case-by-case basis, depending on availability.

-\\ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

My professional experience is about 10 years, most of which has been in-agency in Seattle, with a couple years as a freelancer and some client-side (in-house) experience as well.

What do you bring to the table?  I'm a graphic designer, but don't tell anyone. What I really do is get to the root of an issue and shine some light on it. Shining lights on roots?  That often involves plenty of critical thinking, information architecture, strategic positioning and pro-active problem solving in many forms. My specialty is thinking big: mixing client objectives with design experience and marketing savvy to create designs that communicate clearly, emotionally and intellectually - graphic solutions that connect with users/viewers/readers. That's what it's all about: connecting with people. All the great ideas get executed through design, illustration, copy writing or user interface design - whatever it takes.

Do you make websites?  Yes, with good old-fashioned hand-coded HTML/CSS, and I can do some Javascript and PHP and quite a bit of Flash too - although I don't often recommend it. I'm not a developer by any stretch of the imagination. I can build "brochure sites" (like this one) myself, or partner with a "real" developer for larger projects.