Dedicated, highly talented, motivated executive art director with 25 years of design experience, including over 14 years of excellence in editorial design with Boys’ Life magazine. During this time I have personally produced thousands of pages of original layouts including departments pages, cover designs and full-length magazine features. My layouts have won numerous editorial design awards. I was the sole designer of the special magazine issue of Boys’ Life entitled: “BL Essentials Guide” from May 2014 which won an Ozzie award for design. That same issue won the 2014 Eddie award for best full-issue among kids and teen magazines, the only folio award that honors a full issue. The magazine also earned Adweek’s Hottest Kids/Teen Magazine of 2014. 

 

Possess top-tier design ability, regularly utilizing my additional skills as an illustrator to enhance layouts, creating cost-effective, engaging design solutions. Proficient in developing websites and other online materials, having conceived and designed numerous iterations of the boyslife.org website and similar media. Extremely proficient in Adobe Creative Suite. Have also utilized TruEdit, Mag+ publishing software as well as numerous editorial content management software systems.