My designs are clearly informed by my background in fine art – I spent most of my formal education sketching, painting, sculpting, and of course, doodling.  Upon occasion, I even did these things in Legitimate Art Classes (as opposed to, say, Geology or Psychology classes, where impromptu design – particularly large-scale sculpture – was woefully underappreciated).  In 1998 I started working as a freelance web designer in the emerging internet.  I’ve had the chance to work with some truly talented people and continue to enjoy the personal connections this career affords me – artists and programmers whose work and passion I respect, and the gifted managers of people and resources who make this work possible. In my varied career, I have appreciated the unique challenges of novelty, and have consequently worked in a broad range of settings and with a diverse client base, from my ground-up work as the number two man in a design-house start-up to large, established organizations catering to millions from all across the globe.

What do I do now?

I’m currently a salaried consultant with Comsys, presently deployed as the consulting Art Director for the American Chemical Society, Web Strategy and Operations department. This means I lead a team of exceptionally talented individuals with whom I collaborate, creating new and better websites to meet the needs of this large and diverse organization.

On a day-to-day basis I am responsible for overseeing the design and art direction of ACS.org websites, including the recently launched Member Network, a social networking site that now claims greater than 30,000 members.  Though projects of this size necessarily require me to delegate many tasks to my highly-skilled team of designers, I continue to maintain a hands-on role in the design and production of these and other projects.

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