Experience

2009 - Present

Gershom Design, Los Angeles, CA

Principal

Specializing in the design and development of small and medium-sized business web sites.
Growing sales utilizing ecommerce sites such as Amazon and eBay.
Creating and maintaining social networking channels.

2000 - 2009

The Capital Group Companies, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Web Designer

Design for the American Funds Web site.
Wireframed and designed complex financial transaction applications.
Lead marketing campaigns for both the shareholder and adviser web sites.
Redesigned American Fund's Retirement Web site and the Plan Sponsor site according to internal design guidelines.
Development of Capital Group's Web usability and design guidelines.

1999 - 2000

Faye, Pollack & Associates, Encino, CA

Senior Web Designer & Developer, Manager Online Projects

Management of the company's internet department.
Development of the corporate web site.
Development and design of the International Marketing Innovations web site.
Development and design of the web site for Roth, Bookstein & Zaslow, one of the largest CPA firms in Southern California.
Design and development of web sites for investment management companies, such as Reed, Conner & Birdwell, Churchill Management Group, Anchor Loans, Envision Capital Management, and Gamble, Jones, Morphy & Bent.
Design and web development (including database development) for Stila Cosmetics.
Design and database development for International Merchandise Concepts.

1998

CurtCo Freedom Group, Malibu, CA

Web Developer & Designer, Webmaster, Project Manager

Project management to define the scope, budget and potential revenue of projects.
Conducted business development and coordinated partnerships.
Responsible for the development and design of the corporate intranet.
Conceptualized, developed and designed a variety of web sites such as the award-winning Home Theater Magazine site, which won the ProjectCool-award for January 1999.
Web Design for Mobile Computing and Communications Magazine.
Concept and design for Geeksite, an e-zine.

1994 - 1997

Der Standard, Austrian Daily Newspaper

Internet Department Manager, Webmaster, Online Marketing and Advertising

Management of department; trained faculty staff.
Developed, designed and produced the first Web-based dition of a daily newspaper in German language.
Conducted on-line marketing and advertising.
Responsible for the e-mail and newsgroup administration.
Wrote articles on Internet-related subjects.

1991 - 1994

Der Standard, Austrian Daily Newspaper

Assistant Director, Archive and Research Department, Public Relations

Conducted information retrieval and dissemination.
Creation and maintenance of databases, thesaurus and electronic indexing.
Public Relation and Reader Service Department.
Responsible for the evaluation and purchase of software.
Responsible for office and personnel management, trained faculty staff.

1991 - 1996

Paul Hochegger Communications (Burson-Marsteller, Austria)

Strategist/Researcher/Lobbyist

Developed strategies for business and governmental lobbying campaigns
Responsible for conducting advertising campaigns.
Conducted interviews with prospective clients.

1989 - 1991

Arbeiter Zeitung, Austrian Daily Newspaper

Editor

Writer and weekly columnist for the Arts section.
Wrote book reviews.
Translations of foreign language newspaper articles.

Ongoing Education

2004

User Experience Week 2004, Washington, D.C.

Adaptive Path Workshop.

2003

Web Design World 2003, Seattle, WA

Web Design Conference.

2002

11th Annual UPA Conference, Orlando, FL

Usability Conference.

2001

Human Factors International, Los Angeles, CA

The Art and Science of Effective Web Design.

2000

OpenMarket, Los Angeles, CA

Open Market Content Management Core Developer Training including XML-compliant code.

1999

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Visual Interface Design and Information Architecture.

Education

1989 - 1991

University of Vienna, Austria

Classical Languages (Ancient Greek and Latin), History and Literature.
Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek Philology, Philosophy and Art History.

1982 - 1983

Vienna Art School, Austria

Painting, Graphics, Art History.

Skills

HTML, DHTML, XHTML, CSS, Web Standards, JavaScript.
Windows, Mac, Linux. Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady, Dreamweaver and Fireworks, HomeSite.
Familiarity with Content Management Systems (OpenMarket, Vignette). Working knowledge of CGI and Perl, Database integration.