1. TL;DR

Terry is a mixed-disciplinary creative at the intersection of design, brand & technology.

2. CV

Work History
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2011–present
Senior Art Director
Wasserman + Partners Advertising

2006–2011
Interactive Art Director
Wasserman + Partners Advertising

2003–2006
Senior Web Designer
Ipsos (North America)

2002–present
Freelance Web & Graphic Designer
Forest Co.

2001–2002
Web Content Producer
Intrawest

Education
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Bachelor of Arts
School of Communication
Asian Canadian Studies
Simon Fraser University

3. Verbose

Hi. My name is Terry, a mixed-disciplinary designer and art director with over 15 years of experience as a freelancer, working in-house, and agency-side. Currently I am Senior Art Director for Wasserman + Partners Advertising engaged in a broad spectrum of creative disciplines: from traditional to web and digital products for clients such as Metro Vancouver, Vancity, WorkSafeBC, Teck, Granville Island Brewing, Tourism Kelowna, Return-it, ICBC, the Real Estate Board of Vancouver and the BC Securities Commission.

In the past, I've worked in-house at Ipsos stewarding their brand, web properties and digital products; designing and creating content for an Intrawest travel start-up, and as a freelancer producing a swiss-army knife range of work. In the past, I've spun my fair share of front end code, spending some time in the trenches with my friends HTML and CSS for projects like Playstation.com with Burnkit and select projects for Dave Shea’s Bright Creative. These days, I mostly give front-end engineers a headache.

Disciplines I practice: Design, Art direction, UI/UX, interaction, design systems, ideation, branding.

Tools I use: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Invision, Sketch, Figma, WordPress, HTML/CSS.

My career has been largely built as an auto-didact. I began my design and web education by reading through piles of books while working part-time at a discount computer book store, supplmented by more books, magazines, design annuals and various web forums. Lifelong learning in one of my passions and I'm currently fumbling my way through Git and Figma, trying to make heads or tails out of CraftCMS and Hugo, and absorbing what I can about JTBD, UXD, value-based design, and Atomic Design.

Along the way, projects I've worked on also managed to pick up a number of awards — including a Guinness World Record, Webby nomination, and Vancouver Social Media Award among others.

4. TMI

• I ran a BBS and a local ANSI art group with a spare phone line and 2400 baud modem.
• I sat in a studio session with the sound engineer for local rap group, the Rascalz.
• I oversaw and managed the entire accreditation process for a local beauty school.
• I'm a recovering food blogger.
• I once stayed out on a school night with a friend to watch Bill Gates, in person, announce the launch of the highly anticipated MS-DOS 5.0.
• I danced with an amateur hip hop crew at a city-wide, radio sponsored competition. We didn't win. But we got a T-shirt.
• I upgraded our office Slackbot to a lunch roulette bot.
• Curious what's under the hood? Check the colophon.