I am a talented creative director and designer with over 10 years of professional experience in web, multimedia, mobile, kiosk design, user interface, print, traditional art, management, marketing and content coordination.
I am skilled in gathering requirements from business partners and translating them from concept to completion. In addition, I have a proven track record directing multiple projects with aggressive deployment schedules. I have an impressive background leading teams, developing innovative branding, crafting educational training, and pioneering solutions for a wide range of audiences. I am adept at working individually and or among cross-functional teams to produce quality results on time and under budget.
Creative Director, Media Services- Southern Wine & Spirits of America
Design user interfaces, coordination to include day-to-day management duties and deployment of enterprise wide solutions. For example, .Net driven public facing websites with content management systems, a business-to-business site, intranet, and sales force automation devices for the largest alcoholic beverage distributor in the U.S.
Interface with in-house business units, customers, and suppliers to meet local regulatory / compliance requirements and create a productive relationship with executives throughout the nation.
Responsible for a unified standard look and feel for the nation as well as deploying and designing a B2B selling channel that brought in over $20 million nationally. Growing business more than 3x the revenue of each past calendar year.
Also designed and deployed an intranet which reduced printing costs to save more than 6 figures annually.
Managed projects and teams, mentored designers, created workflow strategies to improve efficiency, reports (usage, traffic), demos, project presentations, brand kick-offs, print / e-mail marketing, QA (load and regression testing).
Coordinated enhancements, wrote business requirements and functional specifications for applications and gathered approval by performing user-acceptance testing for forward thinking solutions.
Oversaw the design, layout, look and feel, defined design criteria, logo development, brand identity, and brand building to ensure successful programs through a mix of all marketing elements for SWS.
Created marketing strategies for emerging web and new media solutions for large and small organizations. Managed external business partnerships with resources and clients whom outsourced web-based projects to my organization. Wrote formal proposals, business requirements, and creative copy for online ad campaigns. http://www.darkhourstudios.com/index_na.html
Cisco: Designed a multitude of interactive internal presentations and e-mail newsletters to communicate and coordinate project status. Project outsourced by Comsys. (04.09)
Cisco Virtual Ball Park: Developed design, scripting, and functionality for a Flash selling tool which runs locally on the sales personnel's client machine. Project outsourced by Heartwood Studios. (02.09)
Intellect International (USA): Managed client relationship and negotiated to design skin for their online web presence. Handled essential business functions such as creating work orders, invoices, and contract. http://www.ii-usa.net (01.09)
Heartwood Studios: Designed and developed e-mail newsletter, created Flash applets for the website, mock-ups for Visuual.com, and production art. http://www.hwd3d.com/ (10.08) http://www.visuual.com/ (01.09)
Verizon - Games on Demand: Worked to establish a business relationship with Exent for Fishdom game marketing campaign, banner design, buttons, and pre-production on game trailers. http://verizon.gamesondemand.net/ (09.08)
State Farm No Doubt: Design, CSS, XHTML for touch screen kiosk (05.09) Bank of America Mobile: Design and Production for website in
English and Spanish (04.09) Victoria Secret Pink: Product artwork for
http://www.vspink.mobi (03.09) Bacardi Mobile: Design and Production for recipe database
http://www.RumDrinks.mobi (03.09) State Farm Jon Ron: Design and Flash UI for touch screen kiosk (03.09) State Farm Latino Billboard Awards: Design, CSS, and XHTML for touch screen kiosk (02.09) Grey Goose Vodka Mobile: Minor Design, Production Art, CSS
http://www.ggdrinks.mobi (12.08)
RingCentral.com: Newsletter templates and Office Suite Design (06.09)
Created Flash-based games, quizzes, page layout, graphics, greeting cards, CD/online Media Kit Presentation and Print Media Kit
As Webmaster maintained and updated daily content of a large volume commercial website
Worked with the engineering team in a Visual Source environment to integrate graphics and dynamic content on different levels. This included creation and editing of html (hand-coding) using Cold Fusion and Home site with mixed scripts of PHP3, JAVA, and server side code.
Director of online Media & Design, Founder- Dark Hours Studios
April 2009
For our third anniversary my wife and I went to Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco. The show was excellent and the food was delicious albeit it had small portions. We also went to Monterey Bay Aquarium (pic above) and saw the exhibits, restaurants, and surrounding beach. Aside from that I’ve been busy working on the Bank of America mobile website and some new job related work at Southern.
Director of online Media & Design, Founder- Dark Hours Studios
January 2009
I've been exceptionally busy working on numerous projects and working late hours. I recently finished up a few projects for ipsh! doing mobile sites for Grey Goose and Bacardi + a touch screen kiosk for State Farm's Billboard Latino Awards. Aside from that my buddies at Dark Hour Studios and I have been finishing up a client Flash presentation for Cisco that Heartwood Studios forked over to us. If that isn't enough we also worked on the website design for Intellect International which provides SaaS. Even with all this work I did manage to squeeze in a few days and nights in Lake Tahoe with my wifey... it was a nice experience. We stayed at Harrah's and it's a pretty decent place. We did find a great little Indian restaurant called Nikki's Chaat Cafe, the food is excellent and I recommend checking it out.
Director of online Media & Design, Founder- Dark Hours Studios
November 2008
Well I finally took a few weeks out of my busy schedule and redesigned my site, I hope you like it. My old site was nice but was dated... heck I did it in Flash 6! This new one is a bit easier to maintain since it's built with table-less CSS, xhtml, javascript, Flash applets, and light box. Another thing I didn't like about the old one was that I didn't have any space to showcase my drawings, conceptual art, and sculptures. Keep checking back to this page for updates and thanks for visiting.
Director of online Media & Design, Founder- Dark Hours Studios
October 2008
Above is a picture of my niece and nephews. Just like other kids they celebrated Halloween this year and got some good loot but not as good as years past. I guess the economic slow down hit Halloween too. It was pretty fun. The one thing I don't like about Halloween is how some punk kids don't dress up and go trick or treating. Some kids came in regular school clothes and didn't even bother with a bag. I guess it's understandable if your poor but the dollar store even has a mask you could get.
Director of online Media & Design, Founder- Dark Hours Studios
September 2008
My wife (Nisha) and I celebrated her birthday and caught the ferry to Sausalito... 'twas great fun. We did some shopping and went to The Spinnaker which is a pretty nice place with a thoughtful wait staff. Last year I took her on the Hornblower and jewelry shopping. Now I have to keep trying to top myself every year!
Skill
Design, Art, and Applications
Traditional Art
Drawing
Printmaking
Scultping
Adobe CS Suite
Photoshop
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Flash
Window & Mac OS
Microsoft Office Suite
Word
Excel
PowerPoint
Outlook
Project
Swift 3D
Visual Source Safe
FTP Client Software
Web 2.0
New Media Marketing
Search Engine Optimization SEO
Search Engine Marketing SEM
Cost Per Click CPC
Cost Per Action CPA
Content Management Systems
SharePoint
Dot Net Nuke DNN
Rainbow
Scripting
HTML, DHTML, XHTML
CSS
JavaScript
ActionScript
Recognition
Featured in "Pocket Games, #17 "05", (Foster Reprints 866.879-9144)
Featured in interview with Bit Business Issue 5 (Japanese Magazine)
Featured in interview with Tech Week Volume 3, Issue 15
Fluent in English, Hindi, Urdu, and listening skills in Punjab
(Ai) Art Institute of Sunnyvale: Member of the Program Advisory Committee
For our third anniversary my wife and I went to 
I've been exceptionally busy working on numerous projects and working late hours. I recently finished up a few projects for 
Well I finally took a few weeks out of my busy schedule and redesigned my site, I hope you like it. My old 
Above is a picture of my niece and nephews. Just like other kids they celebrated Halloween this year and got some good loot but not as good as years past. I guess the economic slow down hit Halloween too. It was pretty fun. The one thing I don't like about Halloween is how some punk kids don't dress up and go trick or treating. Some kids came in regular school clothes and didn't even bother with a bag. I guess it's understandable if your poor but the dollar store even has a mask you could get.
My wife (Nisha) and I celebrated her birthday and caught the ferry to Sausalito... 'twas great fun. We did some shopping and went to