Global Internet, Centri Security Manager

• Company website: www.cisco.com
• Project: Distributed Java Application Interface Design; Multimedia Sequence
• Position: Creative Director, OMIX, Inc.
• Year: 1997
• AKGold Responsibilities: See below

AKGold Accomplishments (Description by Andrew Gold):

The unprecedented growth of the Internet created changing market forces. Sometimes such forces affect projects and alter their course.

In 1997, while Creative Director of OMIX, Inc., I initiated the project with Global Internet to create both a website and a shockwave/Director presentation to market their new line of Centri Firewall products.

I was close to completing both projects when Cisco Systems acquired the Centri line of products for a little over $50 MM. Cisco integrated these products into their existing line of server solutions.

The end result was that the website never went live and the presentation is just a digital relic of the past. The good news is that our excitement was well justified. In the Internet landscape, planning on change is a critical component to adjusting to unforeseeable market forces.

AKGOLD Responsibilities:

• Project leadership/communication with client
• Proposal (w/timeline, milestones, process)
• Extranet to manage project
• Audience/market analysis
• Design analysis
• Information architecture
• Image theme and design
• Website creation
• Shockwave/Director interactive presentation of walkthrough of products complete with screen shots, demonstrations, comparisons, and visual and audio presentation