I began dedicated to Microsoft as the Interactive CD, but a couple of Nike guys found me on my second day. Within 6 months, I was the Global Interactive Creative Director, working on all accounts in all offices (Portland, New York, London and Amsterdam). In 1999, I moved back to New York to help open the W+K office.

For quite a while, it was the best job I ever had.

I got Calvin Klein to do ads with no headlines, just e-mail addresses and a three-year online soap opera played out with ten interconnected characters. Branded entertainment before we had a word for it. I got ESPN to put codes on skateboard ramps, airplane engines, and elsewhere in programming creating a watch-and-win game online. I got Microsoft to do banner ads with only four words for the Windows98 launch. If you've ever worked on tech, you'll know what a massive feat that is. It won the One Show Interactive Gold for best banner campaign of the year. I got shipped off to the UK for months to create the TV for the global "Heroes" campaign. I helped designed an iconographic system for ESPN's Interactive TV test. It went live, and it actually worked. And I did a whole lot of Nike work. We registered a ton of crazy domain names for a global campaign. We kept the Fun Police alive online between TV shoots. I launched a car for Audi in the EU. I relaunched a bank in Germany.

I left in 2002 to move back to my hometown of Austin, TX and start freelancing. Problem is, W+K didn't replace me.

In 2005 (when Nike started saying "Wieden doesn't get digital"), Dan called asking me to come back to Portland. Wasn’t ready to go back full-time again, so, I agreed to a 7-month deal where I'd work from home, then fly up to Portland for a week a month.

We launched the Nike Women's site. We launched a major Nike Football site. Did a truckload of rich-media banners. We built the "Girl in the Moon" Miller High Life site/campaign. We redesigned the Nike Golf site. And had a lot of fun.

Highlights include:

* One Show Interactive Gold: Calvin Klein "cKone"

* One Show Interactive Silver: Calvin Klein "cKone"

* One Show Interactive Gold: Microsoft, "Windows 98"

* One Show Interactive Gold: Nike, "Product Assault"

* One Show Interactive Silver: Nike, "Fun Police"