Motion Design/Lead
Art Direction
Illustration
Graphic Design
Photography
Character Animation
Project Management
Department Management
Package Design
Editing
AI Image and Video generation
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Animator
Adobe Premier
Adobe Audition
Adobe Dreamweaver
Spline
Webflow
C4D
Z-Brush (desktop and ipad)
Owner + Motion Designer
2004 - Present
Ginkgo Synthesis is my freelance company that I've run off and on for 20 years. It's primarily been devoted to animation work for Broadcast, Digital Out of Home, Social builds, and Web (HTML5 banner animation). I also mix in some Illustration and Graphic Design work along the way. Mainly the work has been done by me, but when bigger projects hit, I expand things out to build a team with some of the incredibly talented folks I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
Motion Lead/Director
2019 - 2024
Co-Lead of the Motion Department at the Wieden and Kennedy headquarters in Portland, Oregon. We wrangled innumerable projects for the wide array of clients that W+K worked with in that time. Always flexing between styles and skills in order to hit the different marks needed for each project.
Sr. Motion Designer
2017 - 2019
Motion Design for the Web, Social builds, Broadcast, Digital Out of Home campaigns, and HTML5 based web animations.
Motion Designer
2009 - 2017
Motion Design for the Web, Social builds, Broadcast, Digital Out of Home campaigns, and HTML5 based web animations.
Front End Developer and Graphic Design
2002 - 2003
Coding and Design for online and email marketing builds.
Graphic Designer, Animator, Front End Website Development
2000 - 2002
Front end website development, Graphic Design, and Animation.
I went to school for this art stuff...really, I did. There were classrooms and grades and everything!
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Design
1996 - 2000
I focused primarily on Illustration, Design, and Animation in my time at KCAI, but also took every opportunity to expand out from there into electives in Sculpture, Fiber Arts, Ceramics, Painting, Photography, and more. Absolutely loved my time there, sponged up so much knowledge and skills, and more than anything it taught me how to teach myself so I never get stagnant in my career.
1992 - 1996
Ah, the halcyon days of High School! One of the highest GPAs in the school. Gifted and Talented classes all over the place. One of the youngest and shortest guys in my class. A total art geek who fixated on comic books. Team captain of the Badminton team (yes, this was a thing). Member of the Chess club. Gahd...I was...uhm...cool?
