Designer, Art Director, or Producer/Project Manager position with an on-line magazine or design studio.

Etheria Web Presence & Design , Berkeley, CA
Co-founded design-oriented web development firm. Manage art department and direct design of web sites for many corporations and non-profits, including Lotus Development Corp., Sun Microsystems, Onlive! Technologies, KPIX Channel 5, and the United Way. Personally create the look and feel for most projects and manage team of illustrators, production artists, and user interface programmers. Coordinate with Tech and Editorial on architecture, content, and back-end issues.

Tweak Magazine , Berkeley, CA
Co-created popular and critically acclaimed on-line magazine of parody, politics, and pop culture. Worked closely with former Creative Director on initial design; have been primary designer of new stories since May 1996. Also responsible for soliciting and editing articles, coordinating online events and cross-promotions with other sites, and general day-to-day operations. Tweak has been featured in several books and articles on web design and received numerous awards, including The High Five Award for Excellence in Web Design and Cool Site of the Day.

Griffin Design Studios , Santa Cruz, CA and Oakland, CA
Designed brochures, collateral, logos, books, and other print materials for a client list ranging from local small businesses to a multi-national publishing company. Created licensed products for Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, and the 1996 Olympics.

The Fish Rap Live! , Santa Cruz, CA
Served in various editorial positions of alternative student newspaper specializing in investigative reporting and personal journalism. Supervised all aspects of the publication, including ad sales, story assignments, editing, production, and distribution. Wrote op-ed and reporting pieces and managed 30-person staff.

Yo! Youth Outlook! , San Francisco, CA
Assisted in development of pilot edition of Bay Area-wide youth newspaper with 220,000 circulation. Helped secure funding, decide editorial mission and style, recruit staff, and build distribution model. Maintained freelance relationship through 1994.

Pacific News Service , San Francisco, CA
While working on Youth Outlook!, also served as intern for international alternative wire service. Researched articles and performed general office work.

Pacific Youth Press , San Francisco, CA
Member of team of young reporters affiliated with Pacific News Service and KQED Public Radio. Wrote commentaries and reporting pieces on youth issues for publication on PNS's international wire service. Wrote, recorded, and edited radio commentaries for KQED and National Public Radio.

Power-user skills in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker, and Macromedia FreeHand; highly skilled in Adobe Illustrator and Quark XPress; comfortable with Fractal Design Painter, Fractal Design Expression, and a variety of other graphics tools. Currently experimenting with Macromedia Director.

Expert in hand-coding HTML 3.2; very familiar with browser and platform differences, file optimization techniques, color palette issues, Gif89 animation, and Cascading Style Sheets; comfortable with JavaScript; knowledge of server issues and Java and CGI solutions. Currently experimenting with Dynamic HTML.

Expert in Macintosh and Windows; skilled with UNIX, Solaris, and network administration.

University of California at Santa Cruz
Completed all course-work for degree in International Journalism (a multi-disciplinary major emphasizing writing, politics, sociology, and languages) with Honors to Highest Honors-level evaluations.

Charter member of the San Francisco Internet Foundation

Foreign travel, politics and current affairs, history, outdoor adventures, live music, movies and television, art, and science fiction.