At Work
I am a web designer/educator/author. I have been working as a design professional since 1999 and am currently the Director of Marketing for Envision Technology Advisors.
In addition to my full-time gig with Envision, I also taught Web Design/HTML/CSS at the University of Rhode Island for over 7 years. I was also a regular contributor to a variety of online publications including Smashing Magazine, The Next Web, Fame Foundry, and About.com, where I spent almost 3 years as their "Web Design & HTML Expert".
Over the years, I have had the privilege to work with a variety of clients for whom I've designed projects ranging from websites to print and marketing materials to touchscreen kiosk user interfaces. Those clients have included widely recognized names like PepsiCo, Frito Lay, Universal Studios, The Washington Redskins, The Phoenix Coyotes, Books-a-Million, and the US Customs Department as well as many local, Rhode Island-area companies such as Honey Dew Donuts, Amica Insurance, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., MG Commercial Real Estate, Roger Williams Zoo, and the United Way of Rhode Island.
You can view the site's portfolio section to see some recent examples of my work.
At Play
I make my home in Smithfield, Rhode Island alongside my wonderful wife, two quirky and awesome kids, and two extremely affectionate pets - a wiener-dog named Oscar and a black cat named Gallifrey.
In my free time, I can often be found playing the ukulele, creating custom action figures, or traveling the world with my wife and family on one of our many adventures.
My favorite food is sushi or pizza (depending on how fancy I am feeling), favorite superhero is Batman, and most cherished childhood toy was a Transformers Soundwave figure. My favorite books include "The Night Circus" by Eric Morgenstern, the Kingkiller books by Patrick Rothfuss, the Grisha series by Leigh Bardugo, and "Jacob T. Marley" by R. William Bennet. My iPod features a heavy rotation of Mumford & Sons, Flogging Molly, Of Monsters and Men, The Decemberists, Walk Off The Earth, and Bob Marley - although I will occasionally kick it old school back to my high school days and rock out to a little Iron Maiden.
About This Site
Pumpkin-King.com was started in 1999 as a showcase for my design work. The name came from the movie "The Nightmare Before Christmas" - although why I decided to register that instead of my own name escapes me to this day.
This is the 10th version of the website and, like the previous few versions, it uses ExpressionEngine as the publishing platform. On the site's main pages, headlines and navigation are set in ChunkFive while body copy uses Roboto Condensed and Roboto Regular.