Don Wrege's Resume'

Don Wrege

4632 Ashfield Dr
Boulder, CO
80301
(303) 530-9468

INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN AND PRODUCTION

Don Wrege is a results-oriented producer and an award-winning designer with over 27 years of professional experience in production, ranging from the beginnings of multimedia to the emergence of interactive television. A wide range of skills to fit almost any production situation complemented by a successful competitive marketplace track record.

Wrege possesses a background in critical aesthetics coupled with extensive multimedia production experience creating an individual uniquely qualified in a variety of media. Spending the 80s in Los Angeles meeting Fortune 500 companies' marketing communication needs, from stadium-filling multi-screen corporate theater to individualized interactive presentations. Spending the 90s riding the dot-com wave, responsible at its height for a twenty-three million dollar budget and a staff of 35. Possessing the personal overview, team spirit and large scale project management experience necessary to accomplish the objectives on time, on budget with creativity and style.

EXPERIENCE:

CREATIVE DIRECTOR, NewGuard
Boulder, CO
(8/01 - present)

Responsible for client satisfaction, project management, creative direction, delivery of user experience / presentation layer / information architecture components. Clients include The Cable Center, Navigant Biotechnologies, Gambro BCT, Sterling-Rice, The Kentucky Derby/Churchill Downs

MANAGER OF CREATIVE SERVICES, XOR Inc.
Boulder, CO
(3/98 - 7/01)

Departmental management, large-scale website production and overall client contentment. Served as Project Manager (1998), Producer (1999) and Sr. Creative Producer (2000) promoted to Manager of Creative Services in January of 2001 overseeing a staff of 13. Sites produced included FranklinCovey.com, Vitamins.com, HealthCentralRx.com, HealthSmart Vitamins, Bioenergy Nutrients, WholeFoods.com. (XOR was later acquired by Seurat, then Fair Isaac.) (In 1998 I was having trouble attracting the attention of Hans the Creative Director, so I put together this "virtual interview" using XOR's corporate website's code at the time.)

CREATIVE PRODUCER, DiveIn, U S West Interactive
Englewood, CO
(1/97 - 1/98)

12-month contract to create, produce and coordinate content for U S West's version of a city guide Web product. (Our chief competition was Microsoft's Sidewalk.) DiveIn launched March 18th, '97 in ten cities across the US with daily customized content for each market. My responsibilities included building a Web community, wrangling and helping to refine the ten-city, java-based content management/publishing system Earthweb had developed, producing "micro-sites" for special events, overseeing daily production and constantly growing the product feature set. Christopher Marsh built this Cubicle Nostalgia Site as a remembrance.

ART DIRECTOR / PRODUCER, The Digital Foundry,
Boulder, Colorado / Tiburon, California
(8/95 - 9/96)

Design and Art Direction of CD-ROM and Web products; website construction; production coordination and management including GUI design and product development assistance for Amplitude Software Corp.'s "Reserve" intranet scheduling application. (Amplitude was later acquired by Critical Path.) Clients included E3, Home PC Magazine's CD-ROM Software Previews, Game Gallery Online, RomRats.

COMMUNITY EDITOR, The Angle, BroadVision,
Los Altos, CA
(8/96 - 7/97)

One of four online editors chosen to create an identifiable personality for thousands of readers world-wide, writing columns and providing website recommendations on a daily basis for The Angle's subscriber base. Sponsored by Internet solution providers BroadVision as a proof of concept vehicle for their content management/publishing system, showing how it tied into their "intelligent" (it learned viewers' preferences) One-To-One personalized Web applications.

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER, Interactive Video Enterprises
Boulder, Colorado
(11/94 - 9/95)

Working directly with clients and staff designing and organizing production of early vision of a broadband cable interactive shopping network for the Omaha trials. I wandered upstairs one night and found the Advanced Technology team in need of a GUI guy, resulting in my early involvement in the production of “World Wide Web” sites circa Netscape version 1.0.

CONSULTANT, MNI Interactive (MusicNet),
San Francisco, California
(1993 - 1994)

Assisted in designing production process for launch of interactive advertising & music previewing products, including Rolling Stone/MusicNet service and MusicNet CD-ROM. MusicNet is now a joint venture of RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMI.

ON AIR TALENT, Eclectic Radio Co. LLC (Web Radio)
Boulder, Colorado
(98 - 99)

Host of the annual gogaga.com live coverage of The Digital Storytelling Festival. Producer / Writer / Host of "ZappaTrax"; one-hour internet radio series featured on www.radiom.com for a few months before the RIAA freaked out.

SOLE PROPRIETOR, EYESONGS,
Santa Monica, California

(1984 - 1990)

Owned and operated multi-image / multimedia design and camera service in Los Angeles: Clients included ABC Entertainment; Jackson Browne; Mattel Toys; Chiat Day and Harry Marks.

Additional Experience

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CREATIVE DIRECTOR, NewGuard Boulder, CO		(8/01 - present)
	Responsible for client satisfaction, project management, creative direction, delivery of user experience / presentation layer / information architecture components. Clients include The Cable Center, Navigant Biotechnologies, Gambro BCT, Sterling-Rice, The Kentucky Derby/Churchill Downs
MANAGER OF CREATIVE SERVICES, XOR Inc. Boulder, CO		(3/98 - 7/01)
	Departmental management, large-scale website production and overall client contentment. Served as Project Manager (1998), Producer (1999) and Sr. Creative Producer (2000) promoted to Manager of Creative Services in January of 2001 overseeing a staff of 13. Sites produced included FranklinCovey.com, Vitamins.com, HealthCentralRx.com, HealthSmart Vitamins, Bioenergy Nutrients, WholeFoods.com. (XOR was later acquired by Seurat, then Fair Isaac.) (In 1998 I was having trouble attracting the attention of Hans the Creative Director, so I put together this "virtual interview" using XOR's corporate website's code at the time.)
CREATIVE PRODUCER, DiveIn, U S West Interactive Englewood, CO		(1/97 - 1/98)
	12-month contract to create, produce and coordinate content for U S West's version of a city guide Web product. (Our chief competition was Microsoft's Sidewalk.) DiveIn launched March 18th, '97 in ten cities across the US with daily customized content for each market. My responsibilities included building a Web community, wrangling and helping to refine the ten-city, java-based content management/publishing system Earthweb had developed, producing "micro-sites" for special events, overseeing daily production and constantly growing the product feature set. Christopher Marsh built this Cubicle Nostalgia Site as a remembrance.
ART DIRECTOR / PRODUCER, The Digital Foundry, Boulder, Colorado / Tiburon, California		(8/95 - 9/96)
	Design and Art Direction of CD-ROM and Web products; website construction; production coordination and management including GUI design and product development assistance for Amplitude Software Corp.'s "Reserve" intranet scheduling application. (Amplitude was later acquired by Critical Path.) Clients included E3, Home PC Magazine's CD-ROM Software Previews, Game Gallery Online, RomRats.
COMMUNITY EDITOR, The Angle, BroadVision, Los Altos, CA		(8/96 - 7/97)
	One of four online editors chosen to create an identifiable personality for thousands of readers world-wide, writing columns and providing website recommendations on a daily basis for The Angle's subscriber base. Sponsored by Internet solution providers BroadVision as a proof of concept vehicle for their content management/publishing system, showing how it tied into their "intelligent" (it learned viewers' preferences) One-To-One personalized Web applications.

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCER, Interactive Video Enterprises Boulder, Colorado		(11/94 - 9/95)
	Working directly with clients and staff designing and organizing production of early vision of a broadband cable interactive shopping network for the Omaha trials. I wandered upstairs one night and found the Advanced Technology team in need of a GUI guy, resulting in my early involvement in the production of “World Wide Web” sites circa Netscape version 1.0.

CONSULTANT, MNI Interactive (MusicNet), San Francisco, California		(1993 - 1994)
	Assisted in designing production process for launch of interactive advertising & music previewing products, including Rolling Stone/MusicNet service and MusicNet CD-ROM. MusicNet is now a joint venture of RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMI.

ON AIR TALENT, Eclectic Radio Co. LLC (Web Radio) Boulder, Colorado		(98 - 99)
	Host of the annual gogaga.com live coverage of The Digital Storytelling Festival. Producer / Writer / Host of "ZappaTrax"; one-hour internet radio series featured on www.radiom.com for a few months before the RIAA freaked out.

SOLE PROPRIETOR, EYESONGS, Santa Monica, California		(1984 - 1990)
	Owned and operated multi-image / multimedia design and camera service in Los Angeles: Clients included ABC Entertainment; Jackson Browne; Mattel Toys; Chiat Day and Harry Marks.