Robert is a co-founder and partner at The Barbarian Group. He heads up the San Francisco office and the Barbarian Labs. Prior to joining The Barbarian Group, Robert worked as a freelance designer, and before that held positions at Arnold Worldwide and Circle.com.

Since co-founding The Barbarian Group, Robert has focused on pushing the limits of motion-intensive interactive sites. He was the creative force behind some of The Barbarian Group’s most visually compelling sites. Lately, he has been delving deep into processing and java-based programming.

During “The Bubble,” Robert received wide acclaim as the creative and Flash force behind turbonium.com, the groundbreaking Flash-based minisite for the VW New Beetle Turbo. This site received virtually every award in the industry, including the Grand Clio, a Hatch Award and the Golden Pencil. Macromedia ran a two page ad in major publications, such as Wired exclaiming ” ‘How the (expletive deleted) did they do that?’ – perhaps the highest praise in the web industry.” He was also the art director and Flash developer on the first VW Autoshow minisite, also the recipient of several major awards.

Robert has also worked with such clients as Royal Carribbean, Converse and Footjoy, creating interactive, branded Flash experiences. He also worked with Macromedia, assisting in the development of Flash 5, contributing to the development look and feel, and to the libraries and tutorials.

Finally, Robert is the creative force and programmer behind flight404.com – an interactive, experimental Flash site. Robert has received numerous awards for this site, and has spoken at dozens of conferences in the US and Europe.

Robert has won several major design awards, including the Grand Clio, several Gold and Silver Pencils, several Hatch Awards, the NEWD (New England Web Design) Awards, the MIMC (Massachusetts Interactive Media Council) Awards and over five Macromedia Sites of the Day. His work has appeared in virtually every major design magazine under the sun.

Robert attended Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA.