Creative Director Resume

Title
Creative Director

Primary Skills
Web Design, Web Development, UX, WordPress, Drupal, CSS, HTML

Location
US-NY-New York

Posted
Oct-02-09

Here's what I have done:
Transformative Team Leadership • Social Media/Blogging • Web Design and Client-Side Code • Tech Innovation and Migration • Creative Team Management • Informational Graphics and UI • Publication Design and Prototyping • Reporter

What can I do for you?

As founder and creative director of BusinessWeek.com, an award-winning business news site, I worked at the nexus of editorial, business, and technology leadership, strategizing and creating (design and front-end code) a stream of new product offerings as well as overseeing daily art production.

As graphics director of BusinessWeek magazine in the late '80s and early '90s, I put BusinessWeek in the frontlines of the desktop revolution as a very early adopter of professional desktop publishing tools. In 1995, I launched BusinessWeek Online on AOL.

At The Washington Times I designed and produced several prototype publications before building the infrastructure and launching Insight magazine.

I am an innovator, a product developer, a designer and technologist; a generous facilitator, gracious collaborator, decisive decision-maker, honest broker, and insightful adviser on technical and social trends.

If you are an organization well-positioned to make significant change in quality of life and global equity who believes the workplace should reflect the better world we are making then I want to work with you?either as a consulting ally or as staff.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: BUSINESSWEEK.COM (2004-2009)
Web 2.0 phase: a richer site with more opportunities for user engagement resulted in consistent double-digit year-over-year growth

• Supervise rebranding and radical redesign of site, including change of the code base to contemporary web standards (original design was built in the late '90s).
• Design and create modules for pages to highlight new content and features, including user-generated content. Established brand presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube.
• Develop and manage production of new features (slideshows, polls, and interactive tables) accounting for more than 50% of site traffic.
• Optimize site for SEO using a variety of methods
• Analyze traffic patterns and other data to determine successful design components and content areas and modified site design accordingly
• Manage staff of 3 to 12, depending on business cycle, with cross-functional training and designated areas of expertise (design, Flash, XML, CSS, blog management, video editing) as well as baseline imaging and slideshow responsibilities
• Work with partners and vendors to integrate modules into sites.

CREATIVE DIRECTOR: BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE (1995-2004)
Launched BusinessWeek Online on AOL, then bootstrapped it to the Web.

• Collaborate with online editor and editor-in-chief to ensure site design and technology met business and editorial goals
• Design and launch mobile (Palm) version of site in AvantGo incorporating existing production flow
• Hands-on management of a small staff with diverse responsibilities including extension of the CMS, video creation and production, developing and designing interactive tools, editorial products, and Web solutions for advertising and business support.
• Launch BusinessWeek TV online combining streams of broadcast segments with our own video interviews. Set up studio. Created New York segments for a pilot TV show based in San Diego. Designed video workflow. Interviewed, produced, shot, edited as needed.
• Created McGraw-Hill Companies' first public Web site pulling together info on all 187 companies for the first time as part of a corporate taskforce.
• Created custom advertising solutions, special ad sections, and co-branded partnerships to facilitate strategic sales opportunities and editorial partnerships
• Built up staff during first Internet boom, went through rounds of layoffs, and rebuilt department as business grew and group added more value
• Launched co-branded AOL presence using custom-built Rainman templates

GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: BUSINESSWEEK (1987-1996)
Supervised production of informational graphics, analyzed data presentation and worked with editors to tell stories with graphics. Researched and implemented desktop production and saved over a million dollars a year. Managed staff of 11.

ASST. ART DIRECTOR, THE WASHINGTON TIMES (1984-1987)
Designed and built prototypes of new publication, built pagination system, designed sections and created illustrated charts

DICTATIONIST/REPORTER, THE WASHINGTON TIMES (1981-1984)
Coordinated and planned local election coverage, set up training program for new dictationists, reported on local news and feature stories

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Character education: Since 1990 I have worked in adolescent education at Central Unitarian Church (CUC) in Paramus, NJ, acting at various times as youth group adviser and teacher with a range of topics from comprehensive sexual education to biblical history.
Small Group Ministry: Founding leader of Covenant Circles at CUC. Covenant circles are spiritually oriented small group sharings around various topics.
Ministerial Search: Currently in a group finding and recruiting a new minister.
Community Theater: Active in Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Society

Education
B.S., Zoology: 1975: University of New Hampshire
Two years towards Masters in Religious Education

National Magazine Awards
• Interactive Service 2007: Best Business Schools, Businessweek.com
• General Excellence Online 2000: BusinessWeek Online
• General Excellence 1989: BusinessWeek
• Multiple Corporate Achievement Awards

Skills
Design, illustration, HTML, CSS, blogging, writing, small group facilitator, public speaker

Software
Photoshop, Illustrator, BBEdit, WordPress, Drupal, iMovie, FinalCut, Excel, PHP, MySQL

Folio speaker on Web design and desktop publishing

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arthureves
Personal Site: http://www.emergentdesign.org

Certifications
See above


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