CAPABILITIES

Art Direction Digital Creative Strategy Management & Leadership User Interface Design User Experience Design Information Architecture Branding & Identity Design Rich Media Advertising Print Design & Advertising Illustration & Drawing

FLUENT WITH Photoshop CS4 Illustrator CS4 Flash CS4 Dreamweaver CS4 InDesign CS4 HTML, XML CSS Omnigraffle TextMate, Coda Microsoft Office

FAMILIAR WITH WordPress CMS Web Standards Social Media, SEO Actionscript 2 & 3 After Effects CS4 Flex 4 Cinema 4D, FC Pro jQuery, Javascript PHP, MySQL SVN, FTP, cPanel

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INTERACTIVE ART DIRECTOR UI | UX DESIGNER

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

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Freelance Interactive Art Director, UI | IA | UX Designer

San Francisco, CA Boston, MA | Current

hello@christiansparrow.com www.christiansparrow.com San Francisco, CA | Boston, MA

Interactive Art Director

Teak Digital, San Francisco, CA | 2007-2010
Initiated, then lead Teak's interactive team, working closely with partners and directors to cultivate new talent, attract new business and grow our capabilities Introduced Basecamp, SVN, Tickspot and Agile development to the interactive department's workflow streamlining planning, tracking, and production times Worked directly with clients and partner agencies, pitching creative concepts and digital strategy recommendations on a wide range of interactive projects Concepts, design, and end-to-end executions of websites, micro-sites, rich media banners, social media applications, YouTube channels and other digital media Art directed and managed creative and technical teams on numerous projects Proudly defeated many agency ping-pong stars on home turf and theirs EDUCATION

Salve Regina University

1993-1997 | Newport, RI
Major: Bachelor of Science in Education Minors: English, Art

Macquarie University
Fall 1994-1995 | Sydney, Australia
English, Australian History and Cultural Art

In-House Art Director, Interactive Designer and Front-End Developer

American Board of Podiatric Surgery, San Francisco, CA | 2003-2006
Led development of a new creative and marketing strategy for ABPS Re-branded all company communications materials and guidelines Re-designed the company website from the ground up Successfully implemented a new Agile web development process with team Designed IA, UI, UX, and developed front-end for numerous interactive projects Designed award winning newsletters and other print media

RECOGNITION Adobe "Site of the Day" Pixel Awards recipient Kirupa.com "Site of the Week" DopeAwards.com recipient PINC Bronze Award

Interactive Designer, Front-End Developer

365 Media, San Mateo, CA | 2000-2002
Re-branded company identity, marketing materials and guidelines Designed client websites and user interfaces for numerous software products

NOTEWORTHY Directed Study Advisor Academy of Art University, SF, CA New Media Design Program Judge Academy of Art University, SF, CA Member Information Architecture Institute

Web-Print Designer
Deloitte & Touche Consulting, San Francisco, CA | 1999-2000
Designed various corporate media including financial reports, advertising mailers, PowerPoint and Flash presentations Maintained and updated the San Francisco branch of D&T's website