Simon Erich

About Simon Erich

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, a seasoned veteran of the creative agency world, an illustrator, and user experience and visual design expert. He began his career at Valiant Comics in 1992 working as a designer and illustrator in comics. It was there he became one of the first computer letterers in the industry and began creating some of the first digital paintings ever produced in comics. Much of his early illustration work was for Marvel and DC Comics creating digital paintings for licensed trading cards and covers. Simon spent the next eight years as a design and creative consultant in New York City for some of the largest companies in the world. While in New York, Simon co-founded Ember Media which introduced the original CD-ROM business card, the \"DigiCard,” to America and ran a high-profile interactive agency producing multimedia content.An Austin native, Simon returned home and over the course of twenty years launched several companies. His most recent, sitegoals (an interactive agency that merged with Workhorse Marketing in 2018), Quotingly (quote and proposal software), and Argle Bargle The Game Where You Insult Your Friends. Simon’s newest venture is Trooper, a startup that aims to revolutionize website updates and maintenance.Notable clients from his career include a five-year role at Citibank as a designer and 3D animator in corporate communications and the digital illustration of many trading cards for Marvel and DC Comics. He’s worked with hundreds of clients including Polycom, Logitech, Fish & Richardson, Mastercard, American Express, Nickelodeon, HBO, Showtime, The United Nations, Miller Brewing, Estée Lauder, Marvel Comics Group, Sony Online, R/GA, Newsweek, Dow Jones & Company, Saatchi & Saatchi, and ESPN.Simon enjoys kayak fishing, rock climbing, art, comics, and games (of all types). In 2006, Simon was selected by Nintendo Entertainment to be the Austin Ambassador for Nintendo (Yes, that\'s a real title). This also confirms he\'s a total geek.

Experience

1. Founder CEO

   Trooper

   Aug 2021 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Trooper works with Agencies and Small Businesses to proactively handle the Maintenance and Updates for Wordpress websites and Woocommerce storefronts. You ask, we task. Trooper has your back.

Education

• The Art Institutes

  Commercial and Advertising Art

  1991 — 1992

Skills

• User Interface
• Successful Business Owner
• Animation
• Proposal Creation
• Information Architecture
• Illustration
• Proposal Writing
• User Experience Design
• Management
• Video Production
• Motion Graphic Design
• Graphic Design
• Interaction Design
• Product Launch
• Internet Entrepreneur
• Art Direction
• User Interface Design
• Advertising
• Website Development
• Software Development
• Product Launches
• Web Design
• Quoting
• Software Design
• Logo Design
• Marketing
• Creative Direction
• Wordpress
• Web Development
• SEO
• Succession Planning
• E-Commerce
• Web Applications
• Html 5
• Flash
• Problem Solving
• Mobile Applications
• Experience Design
• Entrepreneurship
• Mobile Design