résumé

To leverage over a decades worth of hands-on design, technical, and management experience in a creative environment to deliver innovative, compelling, and intuitive web based solutions. To direct, manage, and when required, produce projects through the processes of strategic planning, creative direction, technical requirements, graphic design, IA, UI, and content management. To utilize my expertise using all the major digital design tools to define efficient production processes and mentor Jr. employees. To collaborate with all involved development teams to ensure every aspects of creative, branding, technical, and marketing requirements are consistent, and the final product is engaging, intuitive, simple, manageable, optimized, and tested.

StoverPiX started as a husband wife partnership during the early DTP era and built a reputation with clients for being in tune with their needs and delivering top quality product under the challenge of often-impossible deadlines. Through the 80s, StoverPiX specialized in high-end digital illustration, corporate presentations, 3-D modeling and rendering, multicolor brochure design and multimedia presentations. In the mid 90s StoverPix leveraged those skills in creating cutting-edge web sites, and continues to add to the digital design and management arsenal with the all the experience and skills gained from the various startups through the new Millennium. StoverPiX is currently partnering with SiliconRidge.com delivering high-end Flash/Video solutions to Hollywood entertainment companies as well as powerful corporate communications time-based experiences.

Blend Mediaworks technology turns the browser into a player, synchronizing any number of complex interactions with Flash, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, video, audio, dynamic data, etc… to anything containing time such as streaming video, audio, broadcast television, DVD, or atomic time. Marks initial contribution was to demonstrate the power and versatility of the technology by creating full featured demos for clients such as FoodTV, KTVU, Warner Bros., Prime Media, as well as the design and production of live finished projects for Universal Studios and Cisco Systems.

As a member of the top tier development team, Marks responsibility was to spearhead current and future product features, functionality, design, application UI, as well as contribute technical input and document product specifications. Marks role as power-user of the "blender" product afforded him the responsibility of point person for all aspects of the product such as externally controlled dynamic Flash objects, toolbar, time slider, picture loader, animated text messaging, trivia games, and bullet list builder and more. Please contact me for a complete demonstration.

Mark was hired to define the entire UI, functionality, and portal strategy for a touch-screen Internet/phone appliance. Mark assembled a design and production team to create a limited function prototype used by the CEO and sales team. Mark also acted as point person, and managed the Lutris development team (an outside contractor) in writing all documentation and function maps - Mark also personally authored and produced documentation. Conceive and create a Macromedia Flash UI to achieve a rich interactive, broadcast quality, kiosk like experience. Use MM Generator for site management, asset management, personalized content delivery, UI skinning, as well as the ability to deliver full screen advertising tailored to the individual user profile.
Involvement spanned the full spectrum of project conception, planning, and development:

• Define overall Internet portal strategy with core team of developers.
• Define Flash/Generator implementation processes.
• Design information flow and site architecture
• Tool feature specification, UI design, architecture and skinning features
• Architect and document content delivery, publishing and management mechanism
• Work with DB team to create a functioning full screen ad serving methodology and dynamic content delivery engine.

SILICONVALLEY.COM
Mark was contracted, and later hired as the Online Creative Director, to build an online product called SiliconValley.com, which migrated all the high-tech content from MercuryCenter.com into a separate, very focused product which leverages the papers insider expertise to the hi-tech world of Silicon Valley. Mark's responsibilities ran the gamut of site architecture, UI design, team management, training, asset management, technical direction, partner and affiliate strategies, and brand building.

Mark managed a team of designers and producers and pulled from a pool of resources in the planning, architecture, production and coding of large scale, cutting edge web sites. Mark helped grow the team from the 4 founding members to a team of over 20. A few of our many clients include: Disney, Oracle, Quicken, Genuity, EggHead and BofA. Mark also championed and implemented company procedures and processes for tracking job costs, employee time, backup, archiving procedures, and asset management.