My Story
Small Business Visual Campaign Strategist, Designer & Director
I provide the service of a complete media design agency and have for the last several decades. Spending time reviewing how a business should organize their information properly in order to build media. Today most businesses are caught up with tech instead of how to showcase their business. Tech is a tool utilized after you organize your business information properly.
ENTICE • ENGAGE • EDUCATE • EVOLVE
I started basic programming in 1984. Marketing, promotions & music were a part of my life growing up in my early teens during the ‘80s. The early ‘90s I began digital audio and sound design along with studio & touring audio engineering. I was playing sax in a classic rock band in WNY.
By 1996 I was involved with small business design and started focus on learning about using and implementing branding.
I started later that year at Full Sail in Winter Park, Fl to learn such tools as Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Alias Power Modeler/Animator (Maya), Soft Image, Infini D, Premiere, Director Lingo, HTML coding, Quark XPress, etc.. Working in recording studios, print shops and creating projects on my own brought me a well rounded skill set in this multitude of media (Google wasn’t even around yet :)
After graduating from Full Sail in March 1998 I made my way out west to Salt Lake City, Utah. A job leading the digital department at Kinko’s largest print production facility in the US. Additionally I become a teacher at a local college teaching Photoshop, Illustrator, Interactive Media, Print & 3D Modeling/Animation. I developed interactive applications for several small companies (built a website for Reggie Jackson) and continued to work on the cutting edge of media with a company called Evans & Sutherland. Building and developing every media aspect (Graphics, video, animation, print, set design, trade show design, world media marketing) to their world wide corporate branding initiatives.
While in Salt Lake, I found myself onto a 20th Century Fox feature film set in the art department. I ended up creating sets & props for a feature length film. The crew helped bring me out to Los Angeles where I continued on sets for Music Videos, Commercials, Film and found myself also editing and creating special effects in Post Production.
1999 -2003 I toured the US working on everything from the Dixie Chicks, Hanson, Maxim Magazine Events, Red Bull Events, Nascar Events, as a mix of titles (Set Dresser, Set Designer/Decorator, Content Developer) utilizing my set, print, 3D, interactive, web, marketing, video production/editing, branding design skills.
In 2003 I launched my first company to work with small businesses to teach them how to brand and utilize media to help them in everyday tasks.
Today I have continued to connect with businesses to help organize proper development of media as an ongoing tool to making their lives more structure and to work smarter instead of harder. - Frank