Martin Ringlein
A veteran creative director & passionate entrepreneur. Striving to bring together creativity and innovation.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://marylandmedia.com |
| Skills: | Architecture, Business, Design, Editing, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, Guerrilla marketing, Human-Computer Interaction, Leadership, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing |
| Next step: | To hire people smarter and more talented than myself. |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | creative agency, css, designer, Web Design, web standards, xhtml |
| Schools: | University of Maryland System - College Park |
FEATURED STARTUP
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Martin is a veteran creative director & passionate entrepreneur. Striving to bring together creativity and innovation, Martin has coined himself a business-oriented-designer. His enthusiasm for design is complemented by his progressive web-standards and industry best-practices mentality. Seeking inspiration in all that surrounds him drives this creativity and inspires his innovation.
Martin has extensive experience building and managing web teams; creating innovation through design by advocating best practices in usability, accessibility and user-experience design complimented with semantic and extensible standards based development.
With several years experience in a Creative Director role and a wide array of highly diverse skill sets and experiences; Martin has worked with and helped grow organization large and small, including Discovery Communications, Inc. and The Motley Fool to name a few.
Martin is a member of the 9Rules Network and writes his successful blog on business-oriented-design at MarylandMedia.com.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | nclud, LLC |
| Position: | Co-Founder & Senior Consultant |
| Time period: | January 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Martin is co-founder and senior consultant for nclud, a small Washington, DC based creative web design agency comprised of highly talented and extremely experienced industry consultants. Martin focuses on all aspects of the company's efforts and acts as a senior consultant. |
| Employer: | Stuffable.com |
| Position: | Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer |
| Time period: | January 2007 - December 2007 |
| Description: | Martin was co-founder and Chief Creative Officer for Stuffable.com, a web 2.0 start-up. Martin focused on all aspects of the company's creative strategy and marketing efforts and was acting creative director. Martin lead the visual design and front-end development for the company through its public launch. Martin currently holds an equity share. |
| Employer: | The Motley Fool |
| Position: | Art Director |
| Time period: | January 2006 - January 2007 |
| Description: | As Art Director, Martin helped build and lead the creative services team. Martin Played a critical role in the evolution of the team by introducing concepts such as Information Architecture, wire-framing, site-mapping and creative strategy with respect to content, user-demographics, use-cases, user-persona's and competitive market analysis. Taking a lead role in product branding, visual experience design and forward-thinking/extensive front-end development, Martin helped design and launch several new products and services as well as paving the initial direction for the Fool.com redesign. |
| Employer: | Cygnus Business Media |
| Position: | Creative Director |
| Time period: | March 2004 - January 2006 |
| Description: | * Provided creative strategy and art direction to a team of web designers and developers
* Establish, influence, and implement division-wide visual standards, principles and requirements * Author CSS/XHTML coding and design standards for site redesigns * Authored and created marketing materials and business-to-business presentations * Teach Flash, XHTML, and CSS to Cygnus Interactive and other affiliated employees |
| Employer: | The Diversity Channel, Inc. |
| Position: | Creative Design Manager |
| Time period: | August 2003 - March 2004 |
| Description: | * Designed and developed company's identity elements and propagated them across all media
* Authored and created marketing materials and business-to-business presentations * Establish, influence, and implement corporate-wide visual principles and requirements * Create, maintain and direct the overall design elements of corporate media, projects and products * Develop concepts for the interface of web products, and marketing and sales related projects |
| Employer: | Discovery Communications, Inc. |
| Position: | Interactive Web Designer |
| Time period: | June 2002 - August 2003 |
| Description: | * Develop online content for Discovery Networks
* Generate web-based graphics, advertising, and multi-media interactive content * Work directly with network producers, in-house marketing, and designers * Develop concepts for the interface of web templates, promotional and marketing related projects |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Maryland System - College Park |
| Time period: | 1999 - 2003 |
| Degree: | Advertising & Graphic Design, BSc |
PUBLICATIONS
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Everything Web.
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Martin's Startups (2)
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HappyHour!
HappyHour.org is a small web-based social event application created specifically for the iPhone. Simply put, it's a place to find the "best" events based on what your friends and others are saying.
Martin is Following (3)
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CommandShift3
CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites.
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VentureBeat
VentureBeat is a leading business blog that provides news and analysis of technology innovation for forward thinking business executives.
