The comprehensive experience across Product, Exhibit, Graphic and Web design disciplines over the past 20 years has provided a clear understanding of design methodology from concept, development and production perspectives. My participation in New York design firms covers a variety of team settings and client interactions, including Ralph Applebaum Associates who has an excellent reputation for Museum Exhibit Design; and Gordon Randal Perry who produced designs featured in MOMA exhibits.

The managerial roles have given me experience in product development, project management, team building and strategic planning. I managed a group of product development coordinators that gave me insight into Marketing directives and Production constraints. The design group that I currently oversee handles Web design, Audio-Visual Packaging, Advertising, Books, and Magazines. (I developed a graphic style manual to manage their organization identity elements in their designs.) The web projects I managed include several sites for Self-Realization Fellowship, including a web catalog in five languages with an administrative backend to manage fulfillment and client interactions, an online donation page, along with a catalog geared toward the book trade. I have proposed a revamping of their main site, which grew in pieces over time, to better integrate overall navigation and content management.

The past three years of teaching design at college level have developed my communication, mentoring and coaching skills to motivate and direct students to achieve their best. In addition to design, I teach them brainstorming techniques to jumpstart the creative process and stimulate their imaginations.