Below, an example of a branding banner, I took this photograph while visiting the Nantucket Field Station and interviewing the director for the Waterways art exhibition, the birdhouse on the left is one of their signature visuals.
Co-lead on production of "Urban Scholars" 25th anniversary video, with students from Urban Scholars and staff from the office of University Advancement, 2009. Co-designed/lead summer class so that the students could assist in the production of this video.
Designed a series of banners and graphic icons for an online course, "Urban Landscape" - shot all photographs at community gardens in Boston Neighborhoods.
Role: In-house senior web designer on a small energetic team that serves all of UMass Boston, August 2007 - present. Work within a pre-existing web template designed by Viridian Spark.
Photographic Branding: Coordinated over 100 web photographic branding banners. Reviewed existing photographs, arranged photo shoots, and searched stock photos. Generated workflow approval process and met regularly with both the Design and Communications staff to produced the banners. Train members of the university community in visual branding and how to apply it to their materials.
Web 2.0: Introduced Google Maps to UMass Boston departments as a way to organize their materials and communicate. Promoted other web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and Twitter.
Public Presentations: Presented UMass work on panels at two Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) conferences, spring 2008 (mashups) and winter 2008 (multimedia). Chosen to be on the Keynote panel for the University of Massachusetts Boston "EdTech" conference, 2010.
Design work for UMass noted in April 2009 "University Reporter" (pdf, page 4)
Mobile Site Team: Leader in developing a mobile-technology-use student survey for new mobile pilot site. Core team member to develop & launch the UMass Boston mobile site.
Online Communications Consultant: Work closely with the assistant Vice Chancellor for University Advancement to use web technologies to support their goals. See news release, 2008
Actively promote using metrics through Google Analytics. With the webmaster, introduced it to the team.
Web Training: Train faculty and staff to manage sites using the Expression Engine Content Management system. Brainstorm with faculty and staff to find unique and economical solutions to their varied web needs such as using Google applications and low cost options like "MapLib".