{"id":277,"date":"2007-08-25T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/resume\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T03:36:23","slug":"resume","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/resume","title":{"rendered":"Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mike Davidson &#8211; R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h2>\n<h3>Education<\/h3>\n<h4>UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA<\/h4>\n<p>B.A., Business Administration &mdash; Concentrations in Marketing and Advertising<br \/>\n(1993-1997)<\/p>\n<h4>OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxfordshire, England<\/h4>\n<p>Graduate curriculum in Creative Advertising and Management<br \/>\n(1996)<\/p>\n<h3>Professional Experience<\/h3>\n<h4>Vice President, Design<\/h4>\n<h4>Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA<\/h4>\n<p>10\/12 to present<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide overall Design vision for Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>Manage Design Studio, including user experience, research, and prototyping divisions.<\/li>\n<li>Represent Design at executive leadership level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Founding CEO and Creative Director<\/h4>\n<h4>Newsvine.com (acquired by MSNBC, now a division of NBC News), Seattle, WA<\/h4>\n<p>8\/05 to 10\/12<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Founded online participatory news company; named Top News Site of 2006 by Time Magazine.<\/li>\n<li>Provide user experience and design vision for company.<\/li>\n<li>Manage staff of employees, oversee all company operations, and interface with overall news organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Art Director &amp; Manager of Media Product Development<\/h4>\n<h4>ESPN.com \/ Walt Disney Internet Group, Seattle, WA<\/h4>\n<p>2\/01 to 6\/05<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provided design and art direction for web properties, broadband applications, streaming media, and other high profile online initiatives within Disney and ESPN.<\/li>\n<li>Managed multimedia, broadband, and other special applications within Disney sites such as ESPN.com, ABC.com, and Movies.com.<\/li>\n<li>Authored CSS\/XHTML coding and design standards for site redesigns.<\/li>\n<li>Represented Disney and ESPN at design\/technology conferences.<\/li>\n<li>Designed, developed, and deployed multimedia applications, event packages, live gamecasts, fantasy sports games, and other content on ESPN.<\/li>\n<li>Taught Flash, XHTML, and CSS to ESPN, ABC News, and other network-affiliated employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Creative Director<\/h4>\n<h4>Digital Sherpas (acquired by Seasonticket.com), Seattle, WA<\/h4>\n<p>2\/99 to 11\/00<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provided creative strategy and art direction to a team of web designers and developers.<\/li>\n<li>Designed world&#8217;s first online, personalized sports highlights application.<\/li>\n<li>Designed and developed company&#8217;s identity elements and propagated them across all media.<\/li>\n<li>Start-to-finish concepting, design, and production of high-profile, award-winning web sites including The New York Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Wild, K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Bikes, K2 Skates, State of Alaska, Bellevue Square, and The Space Needle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Art Director<\/h4>\n<h4>AAG\/Costacos Sports, Inc., Seattle, WA<\/h4>\n<p>9\/97 to 2\/99<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Designed and wrote copy for world&#8217;s top selling NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB posters.<\/li>\n<li>Authored and created marketing materials and business-to-business presentations.<\/li>\n<li>Designed, administered, and oversaw all aspects of corporate web site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Software<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Languages:<\/strong> HTML 5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP<\/li>\n<li><strong>Platforms:<\/strong> Macintosh, Windows<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adobe:<\/strong> Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Lightroom, Flash CS<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft:<\/strong>  Word, Excel, PowerPoint<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miscellaneous:<\/strong> TextMate, WordPress, Keynote, Subversion, Git, Eclipse, Coda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Awards and Recognition<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Webby Award<\/strong> &#8212; five time winner (best sports site, people&#8217;s choice best sports site)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time Magazine<\/strong> &#8212; best news site of 2006, top 50 websites of 2007<\/li>\n<li><strong>Macromedia Site of the Day<\/strong> &#8212; for K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Skates, and K2 Bikes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Envision Award<\/strong> &#8212; three time winner (best overall site, best streaming video site, and best sports site on the net)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seattle Show Award<\/strong> &#8212; six-time winner (two golds, two silvers, two merits, and a Best of Show runner-up)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seattle Online Network Award<\/strong> &#8212; Best Site to Kill Time On (Seasonticket.com)<\/li>\n<li>Featured on the cover of a Macromedia Annual Report<\/li>\n<li>Featured in Print Magazine<\/li>\n<li>Member Emeritus of Seattle Show Board of Directors<\/li>\n<li>Designed Safeco Field inaugural ticket and all commemorative tickets for the Seattle Mariners<\/li>\n<li>Designed world&#8217;s first virtual observation deck (Space Needle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Speaking Engagements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Online News Association (ONA) Conference Speaker<\/li>\n<li>An Event Apart (AEA) Seattle Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Webstock Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Interactive Media Conference Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Syndicate Conference Speaker<\/li>\n<li>SXSW Conference Speaker<\/li>\n<li>WebVisions Conference Speaker<\/li>\n<li>DV\/Web Video Expo expert panelist<\/li>\n<li>Flash Forward expert panelist<\/li>\n<li>Past instructor of Advanced Web Design and Advanced Flash classes at the School of Visual Concepts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Elsewhere<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Site and Portfolio: <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/\">MikeIndustries.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeindustries\">@mikeindustries<\/a><\/li>\n<li>LinkedIn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikeindustries\">LinkedIn.com\/in\/mikeindustries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\r\n\r\n<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"print\">\r\n\r\n#content_pane h2 {font-family: proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, \"Lucida Grande\", sans-serif; 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