Creative services, project management, content strategy, and workflow analysis
One of the great rewards of working within a global media company like IDG, was the opportunity to engage in so many different aspects of the publishing process. Though my original focus and entry into publishing was as a photo editor, I subsequently branched out into information graphics, art direction, and finally creative direction, managing a full-service art department and large roster of contractors and creative contributors. This varied professional path provided the platform for many significant ancillary projects and initiatives, including work on rights-management, artist's contracts, publishing workflow systems, and web-first content strategies. Most gratifyingly, many of these efforts were ultimately recognized by industry colleagues, professional groups, and national organizations dedicated to the advancement of media practice.
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Editorial & Design Awards
With over 200 career editorial awards for general excellence, art direction, design, illustration, photography, and information graphics, my creative teams consistently won top recognition from PRINT, SPD, Folio, ASBPE, the Maggies, and many others, including the first-ever Grand Neal given to a technology publication. Additionally, I was nominated for, and completed both the Stanford and Berkeley Professional Publishing Programs. -
Distinguished Service Award
As publishing became a multi-channel enterprise, rights-management became a hot-button issue for online content usage. I developed a groundbreaking usage contract that was endorsed and adopted nationally by photographers, illustrators, and publishers, who were all looking for a fair and equitable means to manage content rights. In recognition, The Graphic Artists Guild presented me with its Walter Hortens Award for Distinguished Service, during an event hosted at the Society of Illustrator's building in Manhattan. -
K4 Publishing Summit
PC World's reinvention of its editorial workflow process culminated in the launching of a cutting-edge K4/CS2 implementation, with support from Adobe and MEI. Based on the architecture provided by SoftCare AG, the K4 editorial system is a powerful, customizable workflow tool used by large content operations around the world, and runs on top of Adobe's Creative Suite. The implementation I designed and project-managed introduced the concept of upstream tagging, creating a dramatically faster, XML-aware "web-first" publishing model. Post-launch, I was invited (as project architect/manager), to present on a workflow panel at the K4 Publishing Summit hosted by MEI in New York. -
Graphic Artists Guild
When the 11th edition of GAG's "Pricing and Ethical Guidelines Handbook" was about to be released, I was asked to write the introduction. As the go-to handbook for working artists and designers, this nationally- recognized reference work was an ideal platform from which to address issues important to the creative community, particularly in regard to leveraging original content and developing new distribution models.