Experience
Texas Exes
April 2017 – Present
Senior Designer for the alumni association of The University of Texas at Austin
While executing my design duties, I help surface the business goals behind new initiatives in order to produce wireframes, mockups and built-out pages, often acting as a translator between stakeholders and IT. I contribute to customer journeys, from email to checkout. I was a key planning partner in migrating hundreds of pages to a newly-built site, developing a flexible visual system to cater to our broad, student-to-retiree audience.
Freelance
Present
Art Director
Past clients include Penguin Random House, National Geographic Society, UT School of Law, Deutsche Bank, Condé Nast, Hearst, Time Inc, American Express Custom Solutions, Hachette Custom Publishing, Texas Monthly Custom Publishing, Newsweek, Real Simple, Saveur, and Details.
Riot Media
April 2002 – August 2006
Creative Director for startup multi-platform tween lifestyle brand
Design of identity, Riot magazine, and branded products including posters, stickers, and a collectible card game. Art directed several websites, a comic, and licensed apparel. Also created a prototype for a tween version of TVGuide.
Roger Black Consulting November 1999 – March 2001
Art Director for a leading magazine consultancy
Projects I led include the redesign of National Geographic World, Red Herring, the National Examiner, and PCWeek (relaunched as eWeek).
Education
University of North Texas
Communications Design
School of Visual Arts, NYC
Publication Design
DesignLab
UX Academy