About

My name is Joe and I live in the Metro Detroit area. By day I am a multimedia artist and developer and on nights and weekends I try to be the best husband and father I can be. I have a beautiful wife and a crazy-wonderful energetic little baby girl who keeps me on my toes. Most of the time you’ll find me with a cup of coffee, ready to take on whatever task is at hand.

I currently work for RingSide Creative, a great, local Detroit-based integrated multimedia studio with a wide-spread group of talented individuals. Some of my multimedia talents include multimedia, interactive, brand identity, illustration, design, web development, WordPress, Drupal, CGI, motion design, post-production and more. My focus at RingSide is Interactive and Multimedia mainly on the web. I work with many applications and always wear multiple hats. I am a quick thinker and I am always willing to learn new things.

I’m one of a handful of department heads that lead up the Interactive and Multimedia services that RingSide Creative has to offer. We do everything Interactive from brainstorming & design, to development and launch. A few of our specialty areas include, but are not limited to: websites; microsites; Flash-based websites and microsites; blogs; social media & advertising; banner advertising; rich media advertising; iPhone applications & other mobile phone applications; kiosks & touch-screens; augmented reality; research and development; and much more. I typically end up touching all aspects of our capabilities, because I came from an advertising agency background, which taught me to become very flexible and willing to learn. Normally I have some influence in the creative direction and design of projects, or I even head them up in a lot of cases. In other instances I might be the lead developer on a project as well, whether the job calls for HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, or any combination of these and beyond.

RingSide Creative as a company has quite the assortment of talent in-house. Some of RingSide’s talent includes directors, creative editors, finishing editors, audio composers, audio licensing experts, compositors, film specialists, Telecine and color specialists, motion designers, visual effects artists, CGI/3D artists, interactive/multimedia designers and developers, retouching artists, and branding/strategy specialists. This variety is definitely one of the elements that originally attracted me to RingSide Creative, and is true to form every day. They call it an “Integrated Media Studio”, which basically stated, means that every discipline within the company works together to simply make a better end product for the client, and ideally in “one-stop”. There are a lot of cases where I may be working on an interactive project, and want to spruce it up a little bit to add some value for the client. In most cases, all of the talent I need is right around the corner. All I need to do is make a quick phone call, or take a walk down the hallway, and talk to the audio department to see what they can do to help me with some custom audio for my project; or stop by the CGI/3D department to inquire if they could help me out with a project that might benefit from some 3D animation. There are many more instances where being “integrated” proves to be very beneficial and fun as well. In a nutshell, RingSide Creative is quite a talented and inspiring place to work.

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