EDS Byron Nelson Championship Online Games

EDS, 2005 - 2007  |  Gallery

EDS is the proud sponsor of the annual Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament. Each year EDS approaches this event as an opportunity to invigorate their employee base as well as the golf world. I helped design the games, story-boarded the content, creative-directed, produced, scored and design-directed this initiative for three consecutive years.

 

Project mini-banner for the EDS Golf Ball Frenzy projects.
Access Games:
Super | Mega | Ultima

Faith Popcorn's Brain Reserve

Corporate Website, 2006  |  Gallery

This consulting company helps consumer brands embody the future by understanding the trends. FPBR needed a brand-centric site that supported and validated their profound expertise in order to build pre-sales-call credibility with new prospects. Here I was the executive producer, creative director and design director.

 

Project mini-banner for Faith Popcorn's Brain Reserve

Forests, Fields and the Falls Online Exhibit

Minnesota Historical Society, 2002  |  Gallery

Minnesota Historical Society was struggling to get kids interested in carrying out research projects on its online history database. I was the executive producer, information designer, application designer, writer, storyboard artist and creative director for the project that changed all of that. In 2003 Communication Arts and Print magazines honored my team with an Excellence in Interactive Communications Award.

 

Forests, Fields and the Falls project mini-banner image.

Jamestown Online Exhibit

The History Channel, 2007  |  Gallery

AEN's History Channel wanted an evocative web site for the 500 year commemoration of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia. My team met this challenge by producing an online exhibit that weaves the story in several layers. Here I was the executive producer, chief information architect/designer, application designer, co-writer, storyboard artist and creative director.

 

Project mini-banner for "Jamestown," a History Channel online exhibit.

Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit

The Smithsonian Institution. 2005  |  Gallery

Winter counts are Native American calendars consisting of pictographs marking each year’s passage with the depiction of a single significant event, such as a meteor shower. We were commissioned to create an online exhibit and research tool to serve multiple audiences. I was the executive producer, senior information architect/designer, application designer and creative director.

 

Project mini-banner for the Smithsonian's Lakota Winter Counts online exhibit

The Local Hipster

Social Media Website, 2008

While not currently online, this is one of the most dynamic and fun projects that I've ever worked on. Everyone on my team enjoyed the unique challenges that developing a social website around happy hour presented. It is sophisticated in its executing, use of technology and in terms of the management aspect that happens behind the scenes.

 

The Minnesota Cup Competition

Program Website & Registration, 2005  |  Gallery

The University Of Minnesota wanted to launch a statewide competition to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. My team created a high-concept, rich-media site complete with an exploding box. The how-to information is both accessible and easily comprehensible, which is the heart of our “attract, inform, invoke” philosophy. I executive produced and creative directed this project.

Project mini-banner for "The Minnesota Cup" website

Minnesotan's Military Appreciation Fund

Primary Website, 2006 - 2010

We created a website for MMAF in ’05 and then redesigned it in ’08. That not only exceeded project  objectives and helped raise over $8 million in contributions to date, but we also created an online memorial to fallen soldiers that uses rich media to allow Minnesotan’s to say “thanks!” in a very personal way. I executive produced and creative directed this project.

 

Project mini-banner for the Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund, ThankMNTroops.org

Moto-Phone e-Learning Initiative

Motorola, 2005  |  Gallery

Motorola needed to prepare sales reps to sell the new features in its entire line of phones. The challenge was create an inspiring learning environment that leads sales reps through phone features, and provides sales simulations to help them effectively identify customer needs and match features to address those needs. I creative-design and technical-directed this project.

 

Project mini-banner for the Motorola e-learning projects

Statistical Process Control Training

Dymler Chrysler, 2000

I worked on this project while the creative director for an e-learning company in the Twin Cities. It was a massive initiative with tones of media elements and intensive 3D elements. It won a Macromedia e-Learning Innovations Award. I developed all of the creative content and designed the interface for this project.

 

Image of the Statistical Process Control (SPC) project for Chrysler.

Training Team Trainers

Target Corp., 2007

This was my first e-learning application for Target. It's purpose was to replace a live training exercise with a less expensive virtual alternative. It provided an interactive learning environment that reinforced key principles of in-store employee cross-training. This was an internal project so I can only show a couple interesting content samples here online. I was the executive producer, creative director and instructional designer on this project.

Image of a Target Training Team Trainers interface
Access Samples:
S01 | S02

The Game of Health

Target Corp., 2007

This was my second e-learning application for Target. It's purpose was to replace a live training exercise with a less expensive virtual alternative. This project was deployed in multiple languages and featured a very sophisticated virtual player engine. I was the executive producer and creative director of this project. I'm restricted from showing this work online.

Picture of an interface from the Target Game of Health
Contact me for a private demo.

Victory Motorcycles Custom Order Configurator

Polaris, 2002  |  Gallery

Victory Motorcycles, a Polaris brand, was launching a new custom order program and needed an online bike configurator that would help increase the number of orders. From introduction to ordering, INVIONI created a person-centered experience that reflected the energy and passion of the brand—down to the original music. I executive produced,  creative directed and scored this project.

 

Project mini-banner for Polaris, Victory Motorcycles