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collaborating with exceptional artists, academics, designers, authors, and technicians.

Work

Experience

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The Dog

director of stratigic communications | Putnam Valley, NY

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Provided strategic oversight and direction to align business and communication goals to turn a country kennel into a high-margin luxury dog training facility. 

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NJPAC New Jersey Performing Arts Center 

assistant vice president | Newark, NY

 

Built a new design team to bring operations in-house to collaborate and launch an innovative brand system created by Paula Scher.

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10 17

The New School and Parsons School of Design

senior art director | New York, NY

 

Recruited and led a large team of professionals, professors, and students to implement a new University brand. 

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07 09

Cortlandt Center for the Arts

design director + board member | Westchester, NY

 

Strategic planning and brand development for a non-profit arts education organization. 

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99 07

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art 

design director | New York, NY

 

Guided the design team to expand the brand through major building projects, initiatives, and new channels critical to the Museum’s growth and success. 

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98 99

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art 

assistant director | New York, NY

 

Worked with artists and curators to create exhibitions, educational installations, publications, and new media experiences that provide memorable museum experiences. 

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experience

Education, Collection, Lectures, and Skills

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Pratt Institute

communication design | New York, New York

 

Fall 1992 Dean’s List, Spring 1993 Presidents list. Art Directors Club Honors Scholarship

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Kingsborough College

art history | Brooklyn, New York

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Collection
Works represented in the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum permanent collection.
 
Lectures

Brown bag design lectures, The Museum of Modern Art. Design on the way to MoMA QNS, Westchester Community College. The Art and Experience of Content Design and Management, Society for Environmental Graphic Designers. Wet-folding Paper Techniques, Croton Cortlandt Center for the Arts.

 

Skills

High proficiently with the full Adobe Creative Suite, Word, PowerPoint, Keynote, Excel, Google Apps. Developed and proficient in multiple content and asset databases. Paper folding and paper architecture, hand lettered type and iconography, photography and animation.

Education

Exhibition Chronology

Fabrications: The Tectonic Garden

[MoMA Exh. #1794, January 29-April 28, 1998]

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Chuck Close

[MoMA Exh. #1798, February 25(26) -May 26, 1998]

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"Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Spoken Softly with Mama"

[MoMA Exh. #1801a, March 5-May 26, 1998]

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Bonnard

[MoMA Exh. #1808, June 17(21)-October 13, 1998]

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Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama 1958-1968

[MoMA Exh. #1811, July 8(9)-September 22, 1998]

 

UFA Film Posters, 1918-1943

[MoMA Exh. #1815, September 17, 1998-January 5, 1999]

 

Projects 64: Diana Thater

[MoMA Exh. #1816, September 24-November 10, 1998]

 

Jackson Pollock

[MoMA Exh. #1819, October 28(11/1), 1998-February 2, 1999]

 

Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles

[MoMA Exh. #1820, November 11(12), 1998-January 26, 1999]

 

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect

[MoMA Exh. #1828, March 10(14)-June 1, 1999]

 

Alfred Hitchcock Centenary

[MoMA Exh. #1831, April 15-August 17, 1999]


ModernStarts

[MoMA Exh. #1836, October 6(7), 1999-February 1, 2000]

 

Changing Visions: French Landscape

[MoMA Exh. #1837C, October 27(28), 1999-March 14, 2000]

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Walker Evans and Company

[MoMA Exh. #1845, March 15(16)-August 22, 2000]

 

Workspheres

[MoMA Exh. #1882, February 7(8), 2001-April 22, 2001]

 

Projects 74: Ricci Albenda

[MoMA Exh. #1892, November 15(16), 2001-May 21, 2002]

 

Life of the City

[MoMA Exh. #1894, February 28, 2002-May 21, 2002]

 

Matisse Picasso

[Moma Exh. #1906, February 13, 2003-May 19, 2003]

 

Andy Warhol: Screen Tests

[MoMA Exh. #1907, May 1-September 1, 2003]

 

Projects 78: Sabine Hornig

[MoMA Exh. #1910, July 17-September 8, 2003]

 

Humble Masterpieces

[MoMA Exh. #1918, April 8, 2004-September 27, 2004]

 

Tall Buildings

[MoMA Exh. #1921, July 16, 2004-September 27, 2004]

 

Michael Wesley: Open Shutter

[MoMA Exh. #1925, November 20, 2004-December 19, 2004]

 

New MoMA - Inaugural Installation in all permanent galleries.

[MoMA Exh. #1927, November 20, 2004-November 7, 2005]

 

Pixar: 20 Years of Animation

[MoMA Exh. #1960, December 14, 2005-April 3, 2006]

 

Dada

[MoMA Exh. #1975, June 18, 2006-September 11, 2006]

 

Artist's Choice: Herzog and De Meuron, Perception Restrained

[MoMA Exh. # 1976, June 21, 2006-September 25, 2006]

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