EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Tucson, Arizona — MFA, Visual Communication 2009

NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY

Flagstaff, Arizona — BS, Photojournalism 2004

PROCTOR ACADEMY

Andover, New Hampshire — High School 1994

EXPERIENCE

Web Designer

Deckers Outdoor Corp.; Flagstaff, Arizona2009—present

• Web Design and Development

ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR

Studio A; Tucson, Arizona2007—2008

• Web and print design
• Photography and animation
• Overseeing student projects

SENIOR WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGNER

University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona 2005—2007

• Web design and authoring
• Developing web standards and style guides for the university

WEB/GRAPHIC DESIGNER

E-Learning Center, NAU; Flagstaff, Arizona 2002—2004

• Web and print design
• Photography illustration and animation
• Video production

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Arizona Daily Star; Tucson, Arizona 1998—2001

• Photographic essays and stories
• Daily photographic assignments

INTERN PHOTOGRAPHER

Burlington Hawk Eye; Burlington, Iowa 1997—1998

• Daily photographic assignments
• Photographic essays and stories

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD

University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona 2008

• ART 361, Web Design
• ART 306, Digital Animation

INSTRUCTOR OF RECORD

University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona 2007

• ART 268, Understanding Computer Animation

TEACHING ASSISTANT

University of Arizona; Tucson, Arizona 2007

• ART 316, Digital Design Studio II

SKILLS

COMPUTER

  Advanced

• HTML/XHTML/CSS
• W3C and Section 508 (ADA) standards
• Adobe Dreamweaver, Contribute and Flash/Actionscripting 2.0/3.0
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat
• Adobe After Effects, Premier and Soundbooth
• Apple Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro and DVD Studio Pro
• Quicktime Pro, Web browsers, FTP and MAC OS

  Familiar

• Windows and Mac OS platforms
• Microsoft Office, Apple iWork
• Web servers and email clients
• Javascript, PHP, XML, CGI/PERL, UNIX
• PBASIC programming

TECHNICAL

• Video, HD Video, DVD authoring and streaming video
• Audio recording and editing
• Studio and location lighting for video and still photography
• Underwater video and still photography
• Basic electronic circuit design
• CAVE/VR immersion environments

HONORS

• 2008–2009 Meritorious Graduate Scholarship
• 2008 Medici Scholarship winner
• 2008 Arizona Wakonse Fellow
• 2007–2008 Meritorious Graduate Scholarship
• 2007 Invited artist SIGGRAPH 07 Global Eyes Gallery
• 2007 Medici Scholarship winner
• 2005 PRSA ‘PRimus Award’, University of Arizona web site
• 2003 NAU Service and Learning Award. Graphics designer, S.O.C. Capstone project

ORGANIZATIONS

• American Institute of Graphic Arts, AIGA
• College Arts Association, CAA
• The Association for Computing Machinery, ACM