Skills

Website design & information architecture	Creative direction
Multi-language designs/websites	Identity systems & Marketing
SW design development & packaging	Book and editorial design

Ashbury Designs
Designer and Consultant (web, corporate branding, user interface, print)
11/2003 - present
Freelance

Clients: Amazon.com, AT&T Wireless, Coffee Equipment Co., Bellevue School District, John Kerry Campaign, NPower, Masonry Specialties, Paizo Publishing, WA Womens Political Caucus, Richmond Pediatrics, SJ Management

Amazon.com
Senior Designer
6/2000 - 11/2003

I spent most of my three and a half years at Amazon working in the international department here in Seattle. I was the design lead for the launch of the Amazon Japan and Amazon Canada websites. I helped to launch innumerous features on sites in Japan, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK that were proven winners on our US site. I collaborated on information architecture. I branded the first year of seasonal gift stores. I was part of the team that launched the JP seller marketplace site, single-page checkout, C.O.D., and the Your Account area. Three weeks after launch, COD accounted for 45% of new customers, and had driven a 21% increase in new customers since pre-launch. I participated in the planning/scoping phase for all of the international-Seattle projects.

Network Nine
Creative Director
4/2000 - 6/2000
Bellevue, WA

I had a very brief stint at this design firm before being approached by Amazon to join their team. I was hired for the same skillset I had used at my previous job with the addition of doing Flash designs. The project I was able to see to completion was the Nintendo Warioland3 website.

GoAhead Software
Creative Director
11/1998 - 2000
Bellevue, WA

I was hired by this start-up for the combination of my hands-on skills and my ability to provide design direction for the entire company. Responsibilities included designing the look and feel for their products, corporate identity, corporate website, print ads, training materials, evaluation kits, and even their new office interior.

Ashbury Designs
Web/Graphic Designer
4/1997 - 9/1998
Freelance

Client: Japanese Network, Palo Alto, CA
The objective was to create a fun and lively community website for Japanese living outside of Japan. The site has 80,000 members, consists of over 2,000 pages and receives 15 million hits per month. My responsibilities included researching the needs for this online community, presenting roughsketches and storyboards of navigation to the client, designing and illustrating all graphic elements, including banner ads. I worked collaboratively with a team of engineers, editors, and writers. I organized outsourcing work to freelance artists and HTML experts. I comped and directed the design of their marketing materials.

Client: International Computer Professional Associates (www.icpa.com), S.F., CA The objective was to redesign this site as a bilingual website. Responsibilities included writing the proposal to the client, presenting designs, managing the project and other contractors, designing website graphics, some HTML coding. Additional clients: Silicon Graphics, Macromedia, WaterStreet Design, DonGiovanni.com, Friends of the Earth Japan, Japanese Diet Members, R.S. Dance Theatre, and others. Responsibilites included writing proposals to clients, designing websites and printed materials from concept to public release, arranging photoshoots, photo retouching, arranging DNS registration and ISPs.

Megz Designs
Graphic Designer
2/1995 - 7/1995
Freelance
Amsterdam

Clients: MATTMO, University of Amsterdam, LINKS magazine, Town Cryer Publications, Friends of the Earth Amsterdam Multimedia presentations to Japanese corporations, poster designs, magazine design and layout.

Sample pieces can be viewed within the Printed Media section of my website.

Megz Designs
Graphic Designer
5/1992 - 2/1995
Freelance
Tokyo

Clients: KAO Corp., French Embassy, French Chamber of Commerce, Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, JVC, MINIWORLD magazine, Japanese Diet Member, Subaru, Leo Burnett Advertising Co. Ltd., Time Office Music Agency, Polydor...and more. I worked with a large variety of clients in the Tokyo area which enabled me to gain experience in children's book design, magazine creation, corporate I.D. systems, illustration, store signage, book jacket design, marketing collateral, and photo retouching for billboard-sized ads.

Selnate Publishing
Art Director
4/1991 - 11/1992
Tokyo

Clients: Marubeni, Toshiba, Bridgestone, EPDC, Takasago, Sumitomo Cement, Dowa Mining Co., Kochi Bank, San-In Godo Bank, Adapt magazine, INTERAC...and more. As a team of four, we designed annual reports and quarterlies for large Japanese corporations. Responsibilites included project management, design, direction, finding new work, and creating full dummy presentations to existing and potential clients.

Tools
I have been using MS Project, Outlook, and Excel for resource planning and management. I use mostly Macromedia and Adobe products for design work.

Education
B.A. Communication, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. 1988

References are available upon request.