Crafted Creative for the Enterprise of Tomorrow
Designing beautiful digital experiences is my primary passion. I also have a love for business and have a deep expertise in dealing with technology and strategy initiatives at the corporate executive level. I strongly believe that good design is a vehicle that can influence tremendous change; especially in the enterprise world. I combine my love of design with a sharp business acumen to deliver holistic and user centered design solutions.
Studies show, and common sense dictates, that people adopt technology that is meaningful, valuable and enjoyable to them, and so I work very hard to craft experiences that deliver value, empower business and delight users!
Sidenote: I do love wearing a well tailored suit! ☺Value means different things to different people. To a CIO or CTO it may mean having an intranet portal that aids employees across the enterprise to do their jobs better; one that they love to engage with and use on a daily basis.
For a healthcare startup, it may mean creating an app that helps patients see insurance and medical statistics at the touch of a button. And for others yet, it may mean creating a beautiful digital experience that breathes their brand story and pulls customers into interacting with them.
I am drawn to stories like these, and work diligently to drive critical value for them.
There's many creatives out there that can make beautiful designs, and then there are numerous more business folk that can tell you exactly how to run your business; I am neither of these.
I pride myself in being a digitally minded creative that minutely understands the intersection of design, business and technology, and how this impacts everyday people. I combine this expertise with my passion for people, to craft solutions that empower, delight and deliver measurable and profitable ROI
I aid my clients by marrying my business and creative acumen with three primary areas of expertise:
Technologies, Methodologies & Industries
Working with clients one on one is a huge perk of my job as a designer! I love working with people and teams who are passionate about building amazing digital experiences.
Here is what a few of them have to say about working with me
"I was fortunate to have David as Creative Lead on a large-scale intranet portal design project that I was managing. What impressed me the most about David was his professionalism, his positive attitude, and his ability to not only understand real-world business scenarios, but to design creative, intuitive visual solutions to support them. I highly recommend David, and would welcome the opportunity to work with him again"
"I had the fortune of managing David for 2 years in the design of numerous websites, Intranets and marketing programs. I could always count on him to deliver across a spectrum of complex scenarios. David is incredibly resourceful and always comes up with smart solutions tied to contemporary technologies. His knowledge, reliability and hard work made it easy to deal with the inevitable hurdles that come with most projects. Moreover, David is the most polished young professional I've ever worked with. He instills confidence, dependability and leadership among clients and team members and is incredibly perceptive in understanding business nuances. I can't say enough good things about David"
I had the pleasure of working with David as the Creative Lead on many projects. David always strived to fully understand goals, challenges, and requirements to inform the solutions he designed. The success of his forward-thinking solution designs always reflected these efforts. David was an effective and confident communicator, and always open to feedback. He was always a reliable team member; I would welcome any opportunity to work with David in the future.
David is bright, hard working, and determined. I had the pleasure of working with David on several consulting projects. Always with a positive attitude, David provided quality work and contributed to projects's successful delivery. When faced with critical deadlines, David stays focused on the main goal, collaborates with the team, and confirms his work has met the clients expectation. I would be delighted to work with David in the future.
In addition to his creativity and keen design eye, David brings a consulting approach to his design work that makes it easy and rewarding to collaborate with him. On a recent project, he took our general concept and notes, and turned it into a standout design for an upcoming event. As a marketer, I like working with David because he really thinks through what we are trying to achieve with our messaging – and the finished product reflects that.
Whether it's a simple website, or a complex enterprise design project with multiple C-Level stakeholders, I can be your trusted advisor and partner to empower you to create the best digital products. As you've seen above, I bring a rich background and expertise to the table that will bring tremendous competitive advantage to your business.
The sales speech aside, the most important thing is that I truly care about my clients. I take on a few clients at a time so that I can give each partner the care and attention they deserve. Good business is about fostering & developing great relationships & I'm deeply invested in my client's successes; I succeed when they do.
How About We Build Something Great Together?
Intelligent, confident and forward thinking, David is a creative expert who champions the areas of visual & experience design, with a speciality in enterprise and big data application design for corporate, defense and government sectors. David views design as a vital tool that empowers users to do their day to day jobs better, and this view is central to his process. His pragmatic approach to design is driven by his entrepreneurial & business oriented mindset and this makes him unique as a creative. He marries a holistic and business driven creative process with strong negotiation skills to get critical stakeholder buy-in, and crafts designs that are rooted in solving the very real problems faced by companies. David’s expertise is primarily negotiating, architecting and working through product design and creative processes with multi-disciplinary executive management teams. Microsoft Sharepoint (2016,2013,2010), Office 365, Sitecore, Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, Livesite & .NET are just a few technology solutions that David has used to craft high performing, highly adopted experiences, designing solutions that scale across desktop, tablet and mobile devices.
Over multiple years of agency work, David has brought his expertise and partnered with clients at the highest levels of the legal, finance, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, government and defense sectors. His expertise has empowered corporations of varying scale gain key competitive advantage in their respective industries.
David is primarily based out of Chicago, IL, USA, although his love for travel, adventure and adrenaline keeps him on the lookout for his next crazy trip. He is a pilot, powerlifter and model and also loves speaking on the topics of entrepreneurship, digital technologies and the business of design.
"I was fortunate to have David as Creative Lead on a large-scale intranet portal design project that I was managing. What impressed me the most about David was his professionalism, his positive attitude, and his ability to not only understand real-world business scenarios, but to design creative, intuitive visual solutions to support them. I highly recommend David, and would welcome the opportunity to work with him again"