Education
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
BFA Degree in Visual Communications
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Awards
2008 Regional Emmy Awards
(Advanced Media)
Winner - Website Design/Usability (Independent)
(MinnPost)

2008 Society of Professional Journalists
Page One Awards
Second - Best Overall Independent Website (staff award)
(MinnPost)

2007 Society of Professional Journalists
Page One Awards
Second - Best Website (staff award)
(City Pages)

2007 AltWeekly Awards
Third - Website Design (staff award)
(City Pages)

2004 Koufax Blog Awards
Nominee - Most Humorous Blog (American Idle)
Nominee - Most Deserving of Wider Recognition (American Idle)

Minnesota Magazine
& Publishers Association
2002 Publishing Excellence Awards
Gold - Best Overall Design (The Rake)
Bronze - Best Use of Visuals
("Our Brightest Stars" - The Rake)

Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading (Fimoculous)
#5 Corpus Obscurum


Experience
Web Editor
MinnPost
Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 2007 - Present
Initial duties included site design and architecture, and coordinating site construction with Clockwork, creators of the content management system. Ongoing duties include story layout, illustration and photography art direction, promotion and page view generation through social media networks. Editorial content, site design and business decisions are made with the editor/CEO and fellow managing editors. Site: MinnPost.com

Online Managing Editor
City Pages
City Pages Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 2004 - August 2007
Duties included overseeing news, arts, and sports blogs, uploading the weekly print content and pretaining graphics, developing innovative online content to expand readership which now numbers between 2.5 and 3 million views per month. Site: citypages.com

Marketing Creative Director
City Pages
City Pages Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 2003 - October 2004
Duties as advertising art director included writing, concepting and designing advertising ad campaigns for City Pages' clients, as well as City Pages promotional campaigns.

Art Director/Production Manager
The Rake
Rake Publishing Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 2001 - August 2003
Initial art direction duties included designing the logo for The Rake, editorial layouts, collateral pieces such as business cards, stationery, promotional materials and a four-page introductory guide. Ongoing tasks include designing the editorial content of the magazine and its cover, assigning illustrators and photographers, uploading content to rakemag.com and designing its web graphics. Production manager duties include designing spec ads, designing web advertisements, overseeing a production assistant and conducting press checks.

Web Designer/Developer
E-Commerce Division
Conseco Finance
Saint Paul, Minnesota
August 1999 - August 2001
Duties included designing and implementing Conseco Finance websites (HTML and XML), developing loan application forms, and creating designs for private-label credit websites.

Art Director
City Pages
City Pages, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 1999 - August 1999
Designed the cover and cover story, supervised the copy and layout editors, assigned photographers and illustrators, approved press proofs. Major publications art directed during this tenure included the 1999 Best of the Twin Cities, 1999 Summer in the Cities, and the City Pages 20th Anniversary issues.

Art Director
Minnesota Parent
City Pages, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
January 1999 - May 1999
Oversaw general editorial layout of the monthly parenting newspaper Minnesota Parent. Duties included art directing cover photo shoots, designing the cover, creating illustrations, and laying out of the cover story and feature stories.

Advertising Art Director
City Pages
City Pages, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
September 1997 - May 1999
Duties as advertising art director included writing, concepting and designing advertising ad campaigns for City Pages' clients, as well as City Pages promotional campaigns, including the 1999 Best of the Twin Cities campaign and the City Pages 20th Anniversary campaign.

Art Director
Q Monthly
City Pages, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
June 1997 - December 1998
Art directed the monthly GLBT newspaper, Q Monthly. Designed the cover, directed photo shoots, and layout of editorial content. Art Director, Cake Magazine Minneapolis, Minnesota February 1996 - May 1997 In charge of designing the cover and editorial sections for the national music magazine Cake (now www.toastmag.com).

Graphic Designer/Production
City Pages, Minnesota Parent
City Pages, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 1993 - September 1997
Ad production responsibilities included designing and proofing advertisements, prepping them for press.


Published editorial content
Editorial work has been published in the following:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
City Pages
Defamer
New York Post
Newsday
The Rake
Talking Points Memo
Tampa Tribune
Wonkette