Bio

Har­vey Tillis applies more than 35 years of expe­ri­ence as a busi­ness­man, designer, pho­tog­ra­pher and artist in the finan­cial, cor­po­rate, and adver­tis­ing com­mu­ni­ties to the fields of com­mu­ni­cat­ing through inter­ac­tive media and pho­tog­ra­phy. Start­ing with a suc­cess­ful fif­teen year career in the com­mod­ity futures indus­try he moved toward a life-long pas­sion with doc­u­men­tary and edi­to­r­ial pho­tog­ra­phy shoot­ing for cor­po­rate pub­li­ca­tions of For­tune 500 com­pa­nies and people-related advertising. 

Since the early 1990’s Har­vey has been form­ing vir­tual teams com­posed of inde­pen­dent Inter­net and inter­ac­tive mul­ti­me­dia pro­fes­sion­als whose com­ple­men­tary skills and per­son­al­i­ties result in highly effec­tive, effi­ciently pro­duced projects for both large and small clients around the coun­try. He has also worked as a strate­gist, Cre­ative Direc­tor, Pro­ducer, and Direc­tor of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for dynamic Web and sys­tems inte­gra­tion com­pa­nies in Chicago on a vari­ety of projects for, among oth­ers, Sears, Quill, CSX, and Motorola.

 Har­vey was a found­ing mem­ber of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Mul­ti­me­dia Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, one of Chicago’s largest and fastest grow­ing inter­ac­tive mul­ti­me­dia and Inter­net trade groups. He has been its Pres­i­dent since 1994. In this posi­tion Har­vey has pro­duced hun­dreds of meet­ings cov­er­ing every phase and topic on the New Media and Inter­net scene. 

Har­vey has taught E-Business Strate­gies at Chicago’s Colum­bia Col­lege; is on the mul­ti­me­dia advi­sory boards of Colum­bia Col­lege and the Illi­nois Insti­tute of Art; and has served on the graph­ics advi­sory board of Evanston Town­ship High School and the Busi­ness Advi­sory Coun­sel of Senn High School in Chicago.

Har­vey is presently devot­ing his time to pro­duc­ing edi­to­r­ial, doc­u­men­tary and event pho­tog­ra­phy for non­profit, cor­po­rate, and gov­ern­ment agency clients in Chicago and around the US.

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