Director Project

DAVE JOHNSON WWW.DAVEJ.COM Dave@ DaveJ.com

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EXPERIENCE

LPI Media New Yor k, NY 10/2006 – Present

Desig n Director, Dig ital Media

Redesigned O ut.com, la unched 3/08. Responsibiliti es i ncluded graphi c desig n, project

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manag ement a nd ha nds-on conversion of front-end i nto a pure CSS environment.

Redesign of Advoca te.com, la unched S eptember 07.

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Desig ned, produced a nd developed Advoca te 40th Anni versary si te, nomi nated for 2007

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GLAAD award.

Desig ned a nd developed microsites sold to L evi’s, AX, Subaru a nd SouthWes t Airli nes.

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Consulting Projects New Yor k, NY 3/2001 – 10/2006

MTV.com – developed a nd wrote functional specifi cati ons for Video Music Awards site

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launched July 2006.

Avon - Redesign of yourAvon.com home page. O ngoi ng development of ba nner a nd landi ng

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page promoti ons .

Acce nture - Developed pitch strategy and hi-level redesign concepts for

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StandardandPoors.com

Time Inc Interactive - Developed a seri es of advertori al mi ni-sites sponsored by Ford a nd

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Effexor.

Comet Sys te ms - Complete redesign and i ntegrati on of content ma nag ement system for

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Screensavers.com a site wi th over 6 million monthly unique visitors.

Edis on Schools - Top level redesig n of The Common, a larg e s cale extra net that li nks over

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150 schools with a dmi nistra tors na tionwide.

UGO Networks Ne w York, NY 4/2000 - 3/2001

Creative Director

Manag ed a department of 8 desig ners responsible for the design a nd daily mai ntenance of

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UGO.com, a n entertainment portal for 18-34 year old males with 3.9 million unique visitors

per month.

Showtime Ne twor ks New Yor k, NY 7/1998 - 4/2000

Creative Director, Digital Media

Responsible for overall vis ual desig n, site architecture and i nitial producti on of a ll

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Show time Netw ork si tes includi ng S HO.com, themoviecha nnel.com a nd Showti me

Champi ons hip boxi ng.

Developed RedS hoeDiari es.SHO .com, a promotional site for S howti me’s late nig ht seri es.

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Worki ng i n conjunction with Zalma n Ki ng S tudios, responsibili ties included overa ll concept

design; i mplementa tion of personal ads, live chat, message boards a nd e-commerce.

Directed agency re-desig n of S howti me’s boxing sites which are used i n conjunction wi th

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live television events to accommodate simulcast, on-li ne pa y-per-view a nd a udi ence

participa tion.

Developed and produced WhirlGirl.com - a n onli ne a nimated s eri es wi th 26 w eekly

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episodes. Responsible for overall development includi ng desig n, producti on and

maintena nce of w eb si te; i mplementation of live chat, message boards, va nity email, flash-

based ga mes a nd other features.

Continually oversaw mai ntenance of a ll Showti me sites and enha nced television ini tiatives

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to ens ure bra nd consistency with existi ng broadcast a nd pri nt ca mpaigns .

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Crossover Technologies New Yor k, NY 7/1993 - 6/1998

Art Dire ctor, Dig ital Me dia

Developed graphics and i nterfa ce for Fantasy War, a large-s cale multi-player game running

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on Sony.com.

Responsible for all graphi c development a nd 3D-a nima tion production for Evolution, a C D-

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ROM s trateg y ga me publis hed by The Dis covery C ha nnel..

Produced vis uals a nd video content for 2 on-li ne multi -player politica l ga mes President ‘96

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and Rei nventi ng Ameri ca, hos ted by Time Warner a nd AOL. Responsible for cas ting of a ctors,

direction of video a nd photo s hoots in additi on to i nterface desig n a nd site architecture.

Desig ned i nterface a nd graphics for Ti me Warner Musi c G roup - FS N, an interactive

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television cha nnel tested i n Orla ndo FL.

Developed graphics, i nterfa ce a nd content features for Behind the Mask, a C D-RO M based

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on the movie The Mask and published by New Li ne Cinema.

Consulting Projects New Yor k, NY 3/1986 - 1/1996

Work ed in a cons ulti ng capa city developi ng a wide variety of projects includi ng i nteractive trade s how

pres entati ons, electroni c billboard s ystems, disk-based direct mail promotions a nd educati ona l

software. Cli ents i ncluded:

AT&T - developed a s eries of i nternati ona l trade s how presentations us ed to promote IS DN

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and other hig h-end commercial services.

Edwin Schlossberg, Inc. - designed a n electroni c billboard s ystem for us e i n the World

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Financial C enter in NYC .

NYNEX - developed computer-bas ed presenta tions us ed in conjunction wi th direct-mail

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promotions.

The Edis on Project - designed and produced w eb site to rei nforce existing promotional

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campaig n.

Marc Segan, Inc. - designed and programmed a computer-based musical toy incorpora ting

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algorithmi c melody generati on.

Quotr on - developed a s eri es of computer-based pres entati ons used to promote the on li ne

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fina ncial s ervi ce.

Scholas tic Software - produced graphics, i nterfa ce archi tecture a nd content fea tures for

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educa tional s oftware products.

Cole co Har tford, CT 3/1982 - 7/1985

Director, Video Graphics

• Developed a new department of artist and progra mmers speciali zing in the design a nd

production of graphics for video ga mes. Produced gra phics a nd ga me features for over 100

video ga me cartridg es i ncluding Donkey K ong a nd Zax xon. Also responsible for ma naging

licens ed properti es a nd thei r conversion to multiple vi deo game platforms.

SKILLS Photoshop, Illustra tor, HTML, Flas h, Dreamw ea ver, CSS, PHP.

EDUCATION S yra cus e Uni versi ty Ba chelor's Degree in F ine Arts

AFFILIATIONS 3/1999 - 3/2000 ArtByte contributing editor

PORTFOL IO available at: DAVEJ.COM

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