Graphic Resume Retrospective

The project, creating and re-creating a professional infographic for my career, was established in 2011. It started as a simple "Left Brain, say hello to Right Brain" art project, and has since become a periodic attempt to re-envision, reframe and summarize my career adventures, my experiences, and my wide-ranging skill set. Part Cook. Part Analyst. Part Inventor. Part Artist. Infinitely curious.

Periodically remixing this has been like periodically remixing a familiar dish. Cut it differently here, leave this out, boost this, retain more texture, more saucy, less salty, maybe a little, hmm....  I'm not sure I'm done yet. I'm not sure I'm not.

Deeply inspired by all the good stuff done by Nicholas Felton at Feltron, home of the kickass Feltron Annual Reports. 

2025: The current version. Right. Tight. Lightweight. Very pleasing to me.

2011: #1

Back when it seemed just like a fun idea for a Saturday night. Look at all that cooking 🧑‍🍳

2012: #2

Still Brutalist. Having said that...

This little sweetie did exactly as I'd hoped it one day would - function as a powerful self-selecting tool to get me in the door. At the interview for a cool job at a major company in the Sports and Entertainment industry, the first thing the hiring exec said to me was "So this resume... yeah, I had to meet whoever was behind this." We had a great talk. That was a good job. And that hiring exec was a great leader whom I'd work for again in a second. 

2015: #3

Freed my mind a little more somewhere between the 2012 version and this version.  Less tabular and more flow... the eye has to travel. The light blue at the bottom really made this one pop on paper. 

2018: #4 & #5

As part of the run up to the development of this year's version, I was really feeling the inability of a colorblind colleague to take in the traditional Graphic Rez. Considering this led me to realize that there was probably a better way to create the resume AND simultaneously deal with the default black and white printing capabilities available to many folks in office settings. I feel like the black and white version that emerged is both colorblind friendly and renders a printer agnostic, quality image. 

As for the color version, overall, the whole thing reads lighter and yellow has transitioned away from the indicator for my culinary career and into the indicator for my burgeoning #data life.  That should work out fine... after all these years, I find that in the end they're both largely about manipulating the ingredients and crafting a true story. #data chef

2020: #6

Still striving to lighten things up. Less less less.

2025: #7

Now we're getting somewhere... less shouting, more "Hey, man..."

Time for another cool job with folks who get it. I know you're out there, so let's write 2025 together! #OMGWTFBBQ