Hard working professional with more than 12 years of experience leading the art direction, art production, and licensing components of the manufacture of more than 30 pinball machines. Presently studying graphic design at Parsons The New School For Design while consulting for a pinball company.
WORK
Stern Pinball, Inc.
New York, New York
Consultant - Art and Licensing
October 2011 - Present
Position is derived from a 12-year job as Director of Art and Licensing.
Stern Pinball, Inc.
Melrose Park, Illinois
Director of Art and Licensing
1999 - October 2011
Project managed art creation, art production, and licensing processes for the manufacture of 3-4 branded pinball games a year under strict deadlines.
- Pinball games of international brands included: Avatar, Transformers, Shrek, Spider-Man, Batman/The Dark Knight, The Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, Family Guy, NBA, Elvis, The Sopranos, Monopoly, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Iron Man, NASCAR, Harley-Davidson, Tron: Legacy, and more.
- Relationships with top tier licensors included: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, Lucasfilm, DC Comics, Warner Bros., CBS Television, NBA, Hasbro, Atari, Playboy Enterprises, Harley-Davidson, Elvis Presley Enterprises, HBO, NASCAR, and more.
- Collaborated with CEO identifying and negotiating licensing contracts.
- Negotiated and secured contracts with music publishers and top talent for music and custom speech use in games.
- Worked with licensors and game design teams to produce common vision for each pinball game.
- Liaison between multiple game design teams and licensors in the acquisition of visual, speech, video, and music assets for use in games.
- Managed approval process with licensors to produce and ship games.
- Controlled $200,000+/year art budget.
- Managed 4 artists.
- Understood licensor branding requirements and style guides, and game play/rules, when leading artists and game design teams in art creation process.
- Directed printing brokers, color correctors, printing houses, and vendors in preparing pinball art elements for manufacture.
- Used a variety of printing processes: silk-screening on wood, UV litho printing on polyester, 3-D lenticular printing, digital printing on mirrored glass, and silk-screening and digital printing on PETG, paper, and suede-lexan materials.
- Oversaw that printed materials were of the highest quality when used in final products.
- Used Adobe Suite to create flyers, digital ads, magazine ads, and industry magazine covers.
- Directed photo shoots of games.
- Color corrected images for marketing.
- Wrote scripts and directed on-lines product videos.
- Wrote press releases.
- Managed creation of first two company websites and contributed to newest company website, sternpinball.com.
Universidad de San Francisco
English Professor
Quito, Ecuador
1996-1998
Taught English to college students, 4th graders, and bankers at Banco Popular del Ecuador.
EDUCATION
Parsons The New School For Design
New York City, NY
Pursuing a Certificate in Graphic Design, January 2012-Present
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois
Masters of Elementary Education, 1996
Taught 1st graders at Sabin Magnet School (Chicago, IL) for Student Teaching.
Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts
B.A. Political Science and History, 1992
