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CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIST
Design
Self Educated
Beggars Music Group – NYC, NY | London, UK (2021-2022)
- Designed and executed digital experiences for internationally renowned artists such as Radiohead, Adele, and Queens of the Stone Age.
- Delivered innovative web solutions by balancing creative vision with legacy system limitations, resulting in high satisfaction among artists and management.
- Championed process improvement, advocating for modernized workflows and additional resources to better meet client needs and team efficiency.
- Managed a small team, mentoring and guiding design approaches while maintaining a focus on quality and deadlines.
RXE Industries (Relapse Records, Sizzle Pie, X-Ray FM) — Portland, OR (2015-2019)
- Transitioned Relapse Records' e-commerce operations from a legacy Magento platform to a third-party hosted solution specializing in print-on-demand merchandising, reducing overhead and enabling flexible inventory management for artist merchandise.
- Streamlined pre-order and product bundling systems to enhance the customer experience while supporting key artist releases and limited-edition campaigns.
- Assisted Relapse Records during its acquisition by Sony Music, collaborating with Sony's technical team to migrate critical systems, including email marketing platforms, ensuring a smooth transition of operations.
- Integrated e-commerce platforms with third-party point-of-sale (POS) systems, enabling seamless online and mobile ordering for a growing restaurant chain.
- Developed and executed MailChimp email marketing campaigns tied to e-commerce and POS systems, driving customer engagement and repeat sales.
- Invited to Squarespace headquarters to deliver a presentation on innovative uses of their platform to support multi-location restaurant operations.
- Designed and deployed mobile ordering apps and responsive websites, ensuring cohesive user experiences across devices.
- Managed IT operations, including building a VoIP phone system to support nationwide restaurant expansion and providing technical solutions across departments.
New Frontier Media, Boulder, Colorado
Year Range
- Led web design and development for VOD services, delivering content to hotels, restaurants, and bars, while collaborating directly with key TV companies like Panasonic and LG to develop early prototypes for smart TV VOD delivery.
- Designed and developed mobile TV apps, contributing to the evolution of VOD services for smart TVs before the platform gained mainstream adoption.
- Played a pivotal role in helping cable companies transition from traditional broadcast to online streaming platforms, working through the resistance of broadcast-heavy networks to modernize content delivery.
- Assisted in overcoming technical challenges related to the decline of broadcast TV, helping clients adapt to a new digital era in content consumption.
Synergy Media Group, Denver, Colorado
Year Range
- Contributed to the development and deployment of TouchStand, an interactive kiosk system that allowed music retail customers to scan CDs, listen to previews, and even download MP3s directly to their iPods, which was an early form of digital music distribution.
- Worked across multiple divisions of the company, including Synergy Distribution, where I assisted in digital and retail music distribution, helping maintain relationships with major platforms like Apple Music and LoudEye and facilitating the first wave of iPod-based downloads.
- Designed and maintained the company website, ensuring it aligned with brand standards and marketing objectives, while also developing new release catalogs for the sales team to promote products to national retail outlets.
- Played a key role in graphic design, creating materials to support marketing and sales, including digital assets and print collateral for distribution partners.
- Assisted in the transition of physical media to digital formats, positioning the company as one of the first digital distributors, which allowed them to stay competitive during the transition from physical to digital media.
- Supported product innovation and technology deployment in retail music environments, providing an early glimpse into how digital content would reshape the music industry.
- Cultivated relationships with record store buyers, helping to drive catalog orders and product placement within major retail chains.
- Coordinated in-store events and product displays, contributing to a greater market presence for artists.
- Gained comprehensive knowledge of the music industry's sales and distribution processes, adapting to shifts toward digital platforms in the early days of the internet.