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Profile: Mace, Benjamin

Name: Mace, Benjamin
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Company: Grow Interactive
Title: Interactive Director
Website: http://www.bmace.com
Intro:
 Benjamin J. Mace graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Communication Arts. His education focused on design fundamentals such as Typography, Color Theory, Design History and Process. After graduation, Benjamin stumbled upon Macromedia Flash, which dramatically changed the course of his career by adding an interactive element to his work.<br><br>

Over the last 10 years he has been exposed to design, art direction, scripting, marketing and managing both projects and teams. Benjamin is currently the Interactive Director at Grow Interactive in southeast Virginia and specializes in Flash ActionScripting, interactive design.<br><br>

He has worked with fortune 500 companies as well as small studios and his past career spans advertising, video game design, animation, information architecture and experience design. Benjamin is a published Flash author, an instructor and an avid contributor to the design community through writing, message board moderation, event speaking and open source.