Norman Dempseylives and works in the Sarasota-Bradenton area all the while running social media for the awesome folks at BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton.

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Serving a ‘Tour of Duty’ I’ve been asked to utilize the unique skills and experiences I’ve accumulated over the past decade, to serve my country. It’s a tremendous honor to be selected, it’s an enormous privilege to serve and it’s an overwhelming opportunity to make an impact, on a massive scale.

Designing the design team. After a successful acquisition with Twitter; my business partner, our team and I joined and immediately hit the ground running. During my tenure, I got to experience the brand redesigned, profiles re-imagined, events discovered, in-Tweet media, filtered photos, Twitter Music and Vine!

USF Business School USF’s new program provided me an amazingly flexible, yet intense, opportunity to continue my education while not stopping the adventure that has become my career. I have four years to complete the program and a life-time to apply what I’ve learned.

A designer’s dream come trueSince co-founding a design agency and watching its success result in an adventurous exit, we’ve joined the amazingly talented team @Twitter. They said it best, “we don’t want to change you, we want you to change Twitter” ... and we plan to. My new role: to design the design team.

Yale School of ManagementYale provided me an amazing opportunity to participate in a professional development program specifically designed for creative leaders. The Ivy League institution left me with a fundamental understanding of business principles and their diverse application.

The opportunity of a life-timeFor over two years I worked along-side the most respected design institution in the world, Apple. I was a part of a select research & development team innovating next generation interactions and interfaces — most specifically pushing the limits of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Building a coworking communityWe took a void and filled a 6,000 square foot space with a custom developed environment specifically designed for creatives and collaboration.

Canvas is home to over twenty early-stage & independent companies.

Designing tech for one of the world’s largest tech companiesI worked as a part of a special team within Oracle’s Marketing department on thinking above their technology and beyond their competition. We worked on designing and developing web, mobile and social experiences throughout Oracle.

Educator and mentorOver the past half-decade, I lead web and interactive tracks with Boston University, MICA and now at General Assembly. I teach on a variety of subjects focused on fundamental design principles catered for interactive media/publishing and business.

Print isn’t dead yetFor over a decade I’ve worked along side some of the largest publishers to help transform an industry for emerging web, mobile and social technologies.

Communication is the constant in an world of innovation that moves at the speed of technology.

Pete Cashmore calledMashable had a tall order to fill: redesign everything, on WordPress, for over 25 million uniques, on mobile and to put social over SEO - all in under thirty-days.

Mashable was the first publication designed to be "re-tweetable".

An app faster than Usain BoltI was a part of a small team that architected the first mobile strategy for PUMA.

We worked to define what it meant to have one of the world’s most prolific sport and fashion brands in the palm of your hand.

Ogilvy Public RelationsOgilvy sought out Alex Giron and I for one of their largest interactive ‘re-thinks’ to date.

The objective was to think outside ‘Ogilvy Red’ and design for the ‘conversational web’ prior to the emergence of ‘Social Media’.

ncludWe worked with some of the most prominent and innovative brands in the world on both the start-up and corporate level. Our client list included working with organizations such as Mozilla, Marriott, Google, British Telecom and Adobe to name a few.

The Motley FoolBrought on as Art Director, I was responsible for helping build and lead the creative services team; playing a critical role in implementing web-best-practices, redesigning fool.com as well as re-launching and branding all high-revenue products.

Cygnus Business MediaI started as a consultant and was immediately asked the join full-time to lead the interactive design team. We designed and developed over seventy unique publication websites within twenty-four months. I was a designer, front-end developer and manager.

Discovery CommunicationsDiscovery is where I got my first break, my first professional job as a ‘designer’. I received the attention of the Creative Director with a logo designed for Nike. Once you can put a dinosaur on anything in your portfolio, your resume is never the same; I will always be thankful for the amazing opportunity they provided.

Let’s Go Terps!While at Maryland, I started as a Computer Science major and was later accepted into the IDVSP, Individual Studies Program. I had the select opportunity to ‘design’ my major, ensuring a unique and diverse curriculum from the Business, Communication, English, Journalism and Art Departments.