Experience

Oxford BioDynamics Plc

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Vice President, Head of Marketing

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Boise, Idaho, United States



BlumDesignWerks

• CEO & Principal Creative

  • Jun 1998 - Present

  Boise, Idaho BlumDesignWerks is a design & illustration studio catering to educational, marketing, advertising, legal and biomedical clientele for over 20 years. David’s background includes extensive experience in illustration, animation, design, branding, web/app development and executive-level business management.



Aspen Neuroscience

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Branding

  • Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

  San Diego, California, United States



PolarityTE

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Design & Technology Officer

  • Dec 2018 - Sep 2019

  Salt Lake City, Utah Led the Design, IT, Cybersecurity, and Software Development departments to integrate Design & Technology initiatives across the corporate landscape. This role allowed me to work closely with department heads to create policies enabling greater cross-disciplinary collaboration, thereby increasing efficiency and performance. Served as scrum leader, running a daily standup, keeping track of velocity, managing backlogs, and setting up sprints. Acted as architect, designer, and product owner for… Show more Led the Design, IT, Cybersecurity, and Software Development departments to integrate Design & Technology initiatives across the corporate landscape. This role allowed me to work closely with department heads to create policies enabling greater cross-disciplinary collaboration, thereby increasing efficiency and performance. Served as scrum leader, running a daily standup, keeping track of velocity, managing backlogs, and setting up sprints. Acted as architect, designer, and product owner for systems supporting all design and technology aspects of the company. Interfaced directly with the CEO, executive team, and department leads to continually leverage the development of our Design & Technology resources as the company scaled.

• Vice President of Design

  • Apr 2018 - Nov 2018

  Greater Salt Lake City Area Led the design efforts to build, deploy and scale our company's creative, branding, and design divisions, including product design, graphic design, medical illustration and animation, user experience design (for web and app development), industrial design, and package design. Responsible for interfacing with all aspects of advertising, marketing, manufacturing, basic science R&D, education, and engineering. Built our Design Team from a solo effort to a cohesive group of designers, illustrators,… Show more Led the design efforts to build, deploy and scale our company's creative, branding, and design divisions, including product design, graphic design, medical illustration and animation, user experience design (for web and app development), industrial design, and package design. Responsible for interfacing with all aspects of advertising, marketing, manufacturing, basic science R&D, education, and engineering. Built our Design Team from a solo effort to a cohesive group of designers, illustrators, animators, and software developers.

• Director of Medical Illustration and Branding

  • Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

  Salt Lake City, Utah Responsible for design and branding efforts to build, deploy and scale our company's creative, branding, and design divisions, including product design, graphic design, medical illustration and animation, user experience design (for web and app development), industrial design, conference booth design, and package design. Responsible for interfacing with aspects of advertising, marketing, manufacturing, basic science R&D, education, and engineering.



Healthwise

• Australia
• Public Health
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Medical Art Director

  • Apr 2013 - Jul 2017

  Boise, Idaho Area Responsible for overseeing production of medical illustration and animation assets to be used for print, digital and video products for patient education. This role involves overseeing other illustrators, researching digital asset management needs and helping design, develop and implement workflow and process strategies as we transition from our legacy production model to a more continuous deployment model to enable our structured content products.



JHU-SOM Art as Applied to Medicine

• Instructor

  • May 2000 - Mar 2013

  Baltimore, MD Responsible for teaching graduate students the theory and techniques of 2D/3D modeling and animation, including how to storyboard, model and animate organic biological models, create renderable scenes using camera and lights and use medium efficiently by understanding the advantages and disadvantages of 3D.



Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications at NIH

• Medical Illustrator/Animator

  • Jun 2000 - Feb 2002

  Bethesda, MD Responsible for research of medical and biological topics, design and conceptualization of illustrations and animations elucidating complex subject matter and utilization of traditional and digital media techniques to create concise educational imagery for video production.



HT Medical Systems (now Immersion Medical)

• Medical Illustrator Intern

  • May 1999 - Aug 1999

  Gaithersburg, MD Utilized traditional and digital illustration skills to research, design, and create didactic imagery for use in the learning modules produced to accompany the medical simulators in development.



Engineering Animation, Inc.

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientific Illustrator

  • Mar 1997 - Jul 1998

  Ames, IA Responsible for research of medical, biological, and pharmaceutical topics, design and conceptualization of illustrations and animations elucidating complex subject matter, and utilization of traditional and digital media techniques to create succinct educational imagery for multimedia CD-ROM and web-based training programs.