Art Director, Xbox.com

• Responsible for the art direction/design of the overall user experience on Xbox.com
• Responsible for developing a holistic design framework that took existing elements (Flash microsites, game-detail pages, supporting game-specific content pages, and game-specific graphical elements) and created a more singular, well-integrated and high-impact experience for each game
• Developed the optimal design solution/template that enabled a unique, title-specific experience while also reinforcing the Xbox brand
• Designed and developed several Flash microsites/trailers for individual 1st party Xbox titles
• Provided ongoing Art Direction input and guidelines and helped manage the creative vendors that produced the 1st party Flash microsites/trailers
• Selected outside creative vendors to produce Flash microsites
• Help established Flash microsite best practices
• Oversaw the production of individual graphical elements for 1st party games (title and promo banners, icons, etc.) designed by vendors and CSG
• Collaborated closely with the Product Management team and with the rest of the Xbox.com team to develop designs that are informed by marketing strategy, customer needs, content requirements, and other design and technical mandatories
• Contributed to other design and user experience projects for Xbox.com as needed

Designer/Programmer/Artist, Microsoft Games Studios

• Responsible for design and development of product web sites from start to finish.
• Defined, conceived, coordinated and produced 50 plus web sites.
• Created animation and interactive interfaces utilizing emerging web/multimedia technology.
• Designed web sites that utilized database-driven content, using ASP and DHTML.
• Built interface screens for PC games and CD-ROMs.

Web Designer/Artist

• Worked with team to create a variety of websites for small and large companies including; Intel, Netscape, Iomega, Gateway 2000.
• Art directed the Cape International website.
• Produced designs, animations, and artwork for the Internet.

Web Designer

• Created and maintained corporate websites.
• Used a variety of computer graphic tools to conceive define, coordinate, and produce web-oriented and other design solutions.
• Responsible for the look-and-feel of the sites as well as navigation and content issues.

In addition to web design and development I illustrate under two distinct styles

• Nate Willams Illustration - http://www.n8w.com
• Alexander Blue - http://www.alexanderblue.com

Partial Client List

Converse Shoes, V2 Records, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Egreetings, Getty Images, Microsoft, MSN, The Village Voice, Paste Magazine, Pearl Jam, Seventeen Magazine, Slate Online Magazine, Tokion Magazine, United Airlines, Utah Symphony , Wieden and Kennedy, Xbox, Brown University, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., Cricket Magazine, Utne Reader Magazine

Awards/Recognition

Featured in Juxtapoz Magazine (Print Issue #75: April 2007), DPI Magazine - interview (Taiwan Print), Society of Illustrators 49th Annual, American Illustration Annual 24, 25, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 46, 48, Featured on Adcritic.com (Sept 06), Featured in How Magazine (Oct 06), Featured in Jpeople (Spring 06),Featured in Blk/MRKT Gallery One Book, Featured in Japanese Design Site CBCNET (Sept 05)