While my favorite part of working at a national ad agency were ideation sessions and the open creative of pitch-time, my job was to make interactive media–mostly Flash. I will revisit these videos and add some accompanying prose. I realize Flash is dead, but I am better at JavaScript and user interaction because of it…. Read more »
This is a little bit of a touchy subject. But I would like some due credit. So even though I cannot mention the name of the history-related society that stole my creative, or the advertising agency I represented at the time, here we are. As part of a pitch for a website overhaul, I conceived… Read more »
I started full time at TBC in Fall of 2008, mostly working on Flash banners and micro-sites. But I knew that was a limited audience, and limited time engagement. We would have to enter the world of websites. Brand sites if not e-commerce. I’d worked on large sites before. And had recently been introduced to… Read more »
After leaving The U.S. Naval Institute at the beginning of 2005, I took some time off and finished off my degree. After eight years of working and going to college, it was nice to finally get to be just a regular student. I got to hang out on campus like a regular student. I got… Read more »
This is the story of the actual product development without the financial disaster that is “my biggest failure.” Read about it in “Marketing: My Biggest Failure – Battle of Midway CD-Rom.” Backstory At the turn of 2002, I took a concept for an interactive project for The Battle of Midway to the executives at The… Read more »
Not many people would include their “biggest failure” in their portfolio. And believe me, it has taken a long time for me to be able to talk about it. But I think there are two reasons that I should include it in my history: #1 – I honestly think people learn more from failure than… Read more »
Another part of my roller-coaster 2002 was the formation of a legal business entity to handle all that money I was supposed to make from Marketing: My Biggest Failure – Battle of Midway CD-Rom. With all of the experience I had working on things for USNI that I carried over to the good parts of… Read more »
In 2003, prior to being moved to the “marketing department” at USNI, I wrote a large document to inform the executive staff on how many opportunities they had to promote the website, and transitively, the Naval Institute. Opportunities that they were under-using or missing entirely. I had absolutely no formal training in marketing or advertising…. Read more »
During the early 2000s the Naval Institute had some “identity issues”—as many companies with extended longevity inevitably do. You see, they were formed in 1874 for a singular purpose: the recording of the proceedings of the meetings of a small group of naval officers. Those later became the foundation for Proceedings magazine, its flagship monthly… Read more »
In 1999 I was taking a 3D art class in pursuit of a Fine Arts Associate at AACC. I was already making websites for money. And on track for a full-time job doing that. So I wanted to make sure I was being exposed to others’ creativity and learning about various creative processes. I could… Read more »
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