MY STORY SO FAR
As a passionate and motivated professional, I’m constantly striving to improve my techniques, expand my skillset and find new opportunities to grow. Each of my projects - both solo and collaborative - have provided this growth and allowed me to establish myself within this competitive industry.
Originally from the hills of Southern Vermont, I began my career publishing and licensing artists from all corners of the globe. Being traditionally trained in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design my vision of design was further widened to incorporate digital possibilities. I then sought to further my career in Dallas, TX creating integrated designs for Sony, Adobe, Continental Airlines and many more at Rapp Collins. Seeking new challenges after several years, I traveled back to the New England area to work contract for many of the top ad agencies in Manhattan including Modem Media/Digitas, Grey, Y&R, Wunderman, Tracy Locke, Story, Starwood and ultimately Gartner in Stamford. As a Creative director I manage multiple UX/UI design internal and external applications and processes.
TESTIMONIALS
Chris is an extremely creative UX designer and a design leader. I have had the opportunity to work with Chris for the past 4 years both as a colleague and his manager. Chris is very collaborative, comes with unique ideas and is always ready to help on projects. He is both a very good guide and mentor to his team of designers. He works really well with his development and business team partners and we see his innovative designs reflect in many sales and service technology initiatives delivered. He is an asset to any team!
Sunil Rao
Head of Business Applications & Customer Success
Fitch Group, Inc.
I can't find enough good words to say about Chris. But here are a few: dedicated, passionate, enormously talented, multi-disciplined, entrepreneurial. Here are a few more: I can always count on Chris to come through no matter what the task, whether as a designer, an illustrator, a web designer or a multi-channel program creator. He's brilliant both conceptually and executionally. As an Art Director and a Designer. He can do it all and do it well.
I had the great pleasure of working with Chris on the truly A+ creative accounts at Rapp Collins: Sony PlayStation, Adobe Systems, Busch Entertainment. We were challenged daily with the thought of "how do we top ourselves, again"? And we did, again and again, in no small part due to Chris's resourcefulness and raw talent. Chris was quite simply the BEST art director I had ever worked with. We weren't known as the A team for nothing, and our record still stands. Next time your walking through the lobby of Rapp Dallas, look at all the awards-we were responsible for 99% of them. And Chris was an integral part of the best creative team I'd ever assembled.