My Background

In 2000 I received my first job as a Junior Web Developer, and within the first year I was managing a small web development team after running the company solo for 6 months. By 2002, I attended the Center of Digital Arts and Technology where I completed the 3 “year” X-Media certification. My certification included training in Print, Web, Video, Sound, 3-D, Law, Marketing, Art and Programming.After college I worked for another design company that dealt primarily with Car Dealers. I produced over 20 high end websites in just under 6 months, including Novlan Brothers. I then moved to Vancouver and worked in Affiliate Management for a large Online Sports company.

After a short time in Vancouver, I became independent and have been successfully contracting out my services while working from my home office. It wasn’t long until I decided to start up some websites of my own, and I started attracting some large clients. One such client was Interactive Card Solutions, who were making a free pc-cdrom when any customer purchased Sony’s ‘DaVinci Code’ DVD at Circuit City. The art director on the project came to me, and had me do all the programming and development in Flash. This was such a large project for me, and is my top portfolio item.

I also became a new teacher at the Institute for Advanced Media teaching 3rd year XML and Flash, which was quite an enjoyable experience for me which taught me a lot.

More recently, I have been working with Bardel Entertainment in their new interactive department. I can’t get into the details of the production yet, however it is very enjoyable.

So, in short, it’s taken a lot of hard work to get to where I am today, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.

~Steven Stark