Company:

Razorfish

Leveraging the art of interactive storytelling to help the public learn from our nation's best museums & cultural institutions

Elevating the art of storytelling

Second Story Interactive Studios, now part of Razorfish, is based in Portland, Oregon and has a strong focus on interactive storytelling. Many of the clients are national museums or institutions, universities, or corporations who want to install interactive educational kiosks or websites.

I had the pleasure of meeting with the (then) small studio for a customer visit when I was Product Manager for Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash. Being so impressed by the way they were leveraging our creative products to build beautiful interactives for such important institutions, I worked in-house at the studio for a month to study first-hand how they used our product. Sometime later, I was recruited by Second Story to join them onsite in Portland as a senior producer. I lasted three years in the damp, gray weather before deciding to return to Macromedia, just before we were acquired by Adobe.

While I was at Second Story I was responsible for producing twelve award-winning projects ranging from web sites to kiosks for world renowned clients including National Geographic, Nintendo, Getty Museum, and The Smithsonian. I coordinated all design and development efforts, owned all client relationships, represented the studio as spokesperson at conferences, and acted as a chief technical advisor for projects.

TITLE

Senior Producer

SCOPE

Client Management, Creative Direction, Project Management, Technical Innovation

12

Projects led over 3 years

SEGMENT

Consumers, Museum Visitors

1m+

Users Reached

3

years (2002-2005)