
10/22/2011
Today I was awarded the Robert M Montgomery Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from Illinois Wesleyan University. I was presented the award at the annual alumni lunch at the Shirk Center on the IWU campus. The other award winners and I were also announced at halftime at the Titan homecoming football game with the rest of [...]

06/02/2011
Today it was announced that Illinois Wesleyan University (my alma mater) is awarding me with the 2011 Distinguished Young Alumni Award. Needless to say, it’s a huge honor and I feel incredibly humble to be chosen this year. I’ll be heading back to Bloomington for Homecoming to receive the award and to give a talk [...]

11/16/2010
It’s taken me a few weeks to catch up after back to back conferences in Minnesota and LA, but this weekend I finally got around to jotting down my thoughts about Adobe MAX 2010. The yearly Max conference is always a highlight for me, and this year was no exception. Throughout the conference Adobe set [...]

10/23/2010
As I’m about to hop on my 6th flight in 7 days I thought I would add a post about some recent events. First off, I’ve been promoted to the Vice President of Direct to Fan Creative and Technology at Atlantic Records. I’m managing a team of ten project managers, designers, product developers and programmers [...]

10/18/2010
Over the next two weeks I’m going to be speaking at two conferences, the MSUM College Arts Symposium and Adobe Max 2010. This week I’m speaking at Minnesota State University Moorhead about my work, current concerns for web designers and giving workshops for graduating designers. Wednesday, October, 27th I’m speaking at Adobe Max on a [...]

05/17/2010
Today I was on an amazing panel at the 2010 NARM Convention discussing the use of applications in the music industry. While the focus was on mobile apps, we discussed desktop apps, widgets and the mobile web as well. The panel was moderated by Tom Constabile from Verizon Wireless and contained experts in design, development, [...]

03/20/2010
Yesterday I spoke on a panel at SXSW titled The Future of Online Music Videos with Nick Stahl from Brightcove, Alexander Kisch from VEVO, John Sasso from SONY Music Entertainment, Inc and William Wilson from NARM. We discussed different delivery points for video online, from band’s direct to fan sites to large destinations like YouTube [...]
