Art Director / Graphic Designer http://www.infectedmedia.com steve@infectedmedia.com	P 310.470.8621 C 310.666.2770 1808 Westholme Ave. Los Angeles, Ca 90025
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Pursuing an Art Director or Graphic Designer position in a creative, fun, energetic atmosphere. I have extensive experience with interactive, print, and motion design and implementation (that's right, I can color and code). My extensive knowledge makes a powerful tool that can enhance any user experience. My movie quoting skills, tennis playing, and music trivia knowledge makes working with me more enjoyable than an Alaskan skiing trip. University of California at Los Angeles Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design - 2000 Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, QuarkXPress Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Flash, Director Maya, Form-Z, Animation Master BBEdit, Homesite HTML, PHP, mySQL, CSS Mac os & Windows Ceramics American Idol: Fox Interactive Media - Art Director Beverly Hills, CA November 2005 - Present AmericanIdol.com is the most successful TV show affiliated website, maintaining their millions of users week after week with exclusive material and a strong community section. led design team for americanidol.com redesigned the entire Idol website in a little less than two months worked with high profile clients such as Ford, Coke and Cingular to create cobranded sections of the Idol site helped create a balanced website that doubled the amount of users to the site in 2006 versus the 2005 season Evite - Art Director Los Angeles, CA June 2004 - March 2005 Evite is a free social planning site featuring invitations, social networking, local information and event listing online services. Responsible for leading overall design strategy for the company. Specific responsibilities include: 2005 Webby Award Winner led design team for the company redesigned the entire site in merely three months which included upwards of 300 unique pages completely revamped the template gallery with the use of in-house and contract designers collaborated with marketing and clients such as Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ofoto and Red Envelope to help drive sales numbers higher than ever before and increasing pageviews to upwards of 100 million per month liveDaily - Senior Graphic Designer Los Angeles, CA February 2004 - June 2004 liveDaily's mission is to connect people that make music with people that love music. As a member of the IAC family of media websites, they're able to connect their readers with tickets at their sister sites Ticketmaster.com and TicketWeb.com, and they actively partner with a number of music retail sites to help connect our readers with music and merchandise at great prices. lead designer for the music news site redesigned the entire site from the ground up over the period of a couple months layed out the html framework for the development team during the redesign Ticketmaster - Senior Graphic Designer Los Angeles, CA October 2000 - June 2004 Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, providing ticket sales and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites on the Internet; approximately 3,300 retail Ticket Center outlets; 19 worldwide telephone call centers; and a broad online and offline marketing network. Specific responsibilities include: managed the weekly publication of the Ticketmaster homepage coded all Ticketmaster web pages in html and implemented all images for a comprehensive website rebuild collaborated with marketing and product design to help define Ticketmaster's brand identity primary designer for numerous successful marketing campaigns for clients including the NBA, Aerosmith, Blink-182, Neil Diamond, Cirque du Soleil and Pantera. Promotion materials included web splash pages, emails, web banners, and Ticketmaster homepage coverage collaborated with clients, product management and marketing teams to develop an easy to use tool targeted at season ticket holders Available on request.