Thanks for visting my web site. I'm a freelance web designer and co-founder of Bigaxiom.com, a two (sometimes three) man web design and development shop. I also work full-time for the City of Boston in the Office of Business Development, where I provide design assistance to local small businesses and non-profits. Please drop me a line if you have questions regarding my work or experiences.

Technical Skill

Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Dreamweaver / Flash / hand-code HTML5 / CSS3 / responsive design / Balsamiq / Firebug / WordPress / organic SEO / Painter

Work Experience

Bigaxiom Creative, Co-founder and Creative Lead / 10.2010–Present

• Implement and maintain brand identity, web site design, and company brand positioning
• Lead creative efforts from concept to production on cohesive brand materials for clients
• Lead concept presentation of strategy and corresponding execution for web and print projects while driving the approval process to stay on deadline
• Design user experience flows for client consensus before sending detailed wireframes to development team for precise and effective implementation

City of Boston, Web / Graphic Designer / 01.2008–Present

• Oversee all graphic design services to support the Office of Business Development
• Provide guidance, technical assistance, and design consistent brand materials including logos, signage, and web sites to neighborhood districts, individual businesses and non-profits
• Coordinate, review, and execute cost effective production of marketing materials
• Project manage contracted design agencies
• Designed and developed homepage for Boston Business Hub within Salesforce environment

VistaPrint, Web Production Designer / 01.2007–01.2008

• Designed effective content layout for continuous user experience improvements
• Executed design concepts into mock-ups for final web page layouts
• Created effective hero marquees and product offering communications
• Created mock-ups for new page designs and web application developments
• Developed and maintained web graphic directories in content management tool
• Created detailed illustrations and icons used cross culturally for 15 translated web sites
• Designed graphic updates for monthly merchandising and localization needs

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Graphic Designer / 07.2000–01.2007

• Designed and maintained marketing materials such as: booklets, magazines ads, posters, display panels for on-road recruitment, bookmarks, postcards, brochures, ID card, stickers, and direct mailers, for several institute departments
• Designed Wentworth's 100 year centennial logo
• Developed web graphics for the Admission's web page, redesigned photo tour, developed landing page for Accepted Student Day, and created header graphics for Wentworth's web portal ( lconnect.wit.edu )

Freelance

• Advanced Visual Systems / Organic Gardening Magazine / Resolve Technology / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Weekly Dig / Improper Bostonian / Wentworth Institute of Technology / Lawyers Weekly

Education

• Continuing Ed at Mass College of Art - Boston, MA / 06.2003, 08.2005
• Bachelor of Arts at Art Institute of Boston - Boston, MA / 08.1996–01.1999
• Rhode Island School of Design - Providence, RI / 06.1995–01.1996
• Pennsylvania State University - State College, PA / 08.1993–01.1995

Personal and Hobbies

• Big Brother of Massachusetts Bay volunteer / 06.2005–06.2006
• AIGA member / 07.2009–Present
• design illustration / bikes / music / movies / billiards / wiffle ball / cooking / spending time with family and friends