Mike Davidson – Résumé

Education

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA

B.A., Business Administration — Concentrations in Marketing and Advertising
(1993-1997)

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Oxfordshire, England

Graduate curriculum in Creative Advertising and Management
(1996)

Professional Experience

Vice President, Design

Twitter, Inc., San Francisco, CA

10/12 to present

  • Provide overall Design vision for Twitter.
  • Manage Design Studio, including user experience, research, and prototyping divisions.
  • Represent Design at executive leadership level.

Founding CEO and Creative Director

Newsvine.com (acquired by MSNBC, now a division of NBC News), Seattle, WA

8/05 to 10/12

  • Founded online participatory news company; named Top News Site of 2006 by Time Magazine.
  • Provide user experience and design vision for company.
  • Manage staff of employees, oversee all company operations, and interface with overall news organization.

Art Director & Manager of Media Product Development

ESPN.com / Walt Disney Internet Group, Seattle, WA

2/01 to 6/05

  • Provided design and art direction for web properties, broadband applications, streaming media, and other high profile online initiatives within Disney and ESPN.
  • Managed multimedia, broadband, and other special applications within Disney sites such as ESPN.com, ABC.com, and Movies.com.
  • Authored CSS/XHTML coding and design standards for site redesigns.
  • Represented Disney and ESPN at design/technology conferences.
  • Designed, developed, and deployed multimedia applications, event packages, live gamecasts, fantasy sports games, and other content on ESPN.
  • Taught Flash, XHTML, and CSS to ESPN, ABC News, and other network-affiliated employees.

Creative Director

Digital Sherpas (acquired by Seasonticket.com), Seattle, WA

2/99 to 11/00

  • Provided creative strategy and art direction to a team of web designers and developers.
  • Designed world’s first online, personalized sports highlights application.
  • Designed and developed company’s identity elements and propagated them across all media.
  • Start-to-finish concepting, design, and production of high-profile, award-winning web sites including The New York Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Minnesota Wild, K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Bikes, K2 Skates, State of Alaska, Bellevue Square, and The Space Needle.

Art Director

AAG/Costacos Sports, Inc., Seattle, WA

9/97 to 2/99

  • Designed and wrote copy for world’s top selling NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB posters.
  • Authored and created marketing materials and business-to-business presentations.
  • Designed, administered, and oversaw all aspects of corporate web site.

Software

  • Languages: HTML 5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP
  • Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
  • Adobe: Photoshop CS, Illustrator CS, Lightroom, Flash CS
  • Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
  • Miscellaneous: TextMate, WordPress, Keynote, Subversion, Git, Eclipse, Coda

Awards and Recognition

  • Webby Award — five time winner (best sports site, people’s choice best sports site)
  • Time Magazine — best news site of 2006, top 50 websites of 2007
  • Macromedia Site of the Day — for K2 Skis, K2 Snowboards, K2 Skates, and K2 Bikes
  • Envision Award — three time winner (best overall site, best streaming video site, and best sports site on the net)
  • Seattle Show Award — six-time winner (two golds, two silvers, two merits, and a Best of Show runner-up)
  • Seattle Online Network Award — Best Site to Kill Time On (Seasonticket.com)
  • Featured on the cover of a Macromedia Annual Report
  • Featured in Print Magazine
  • Member Emeritus of Seattle Show Board of Directors
  • Designed Safeco Field inaugural ticket and all commemorative tickets for the Seattle Mariners
  • Designed world’s first virtual observation deck (Space Needle)

Speaking Engagements

  • Online News Association (ONA) Conference Speaker
  • An Event Apart (AEA) Seattle Speaker
  • Webstock Speaker
  • Interactive Media Conference Speaker
  • Syndicate Conference Speaker
  • SXSW Conference Speaker
  • WebVisions Conference Speaker
  • DV/Web Video Expo expert panelist
  • Flash Forward expert panelist
  • Past instructor of Advanced Web Design and Advanced Flash classes at the School of Visual Concepts

Elsewhere

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