# About David Skelton

By David Skelton - https://skeltonmedia.com/about.html - current as of 2026-11-06

**Creative Director, Designer & AI Builder** · Columbus, Ohio, USA · Web Content Marketing Manager, Huntington National Bank (creative direction on the AI product team) · founder, Skelton Media (since 2008) · Bowling Green State University, B.S. Visual Communications Technology

## Who I am

I'm David, a designer in Columbus, Ohio. Creative direction, brand and design systems since 2008. AI in the workflow since 2021, where it belongs: production that used to take days now takes hours, and a review gate decides what ships.

I own creative end to end, from brand and design systems through the production workflows that ship them, and I write the front end myself. My proof isn't a slide deck. It's a working agentic OS that runs my studio and blocks any claim it can't trace to a source. Everything on this site, including the OS that wrote half the run logs, is working proof.

## Open to

- **consulting**: Brand identity and design systems; AI-assisted content and design-to-code pipelines with human review gates built in. Scoped projects, honest timelines. Engagements run through Skelton Media.
- **full-time**: Senior or staff design leadership and product roles on remote-first teams building AI products, for someone who can own the creative and still build it.
- **fit**: In-house teams. Remote-first from Columbus, Ohio (US Eastern). Applications go through the company's own careers page.

Contact: https://skeltonmedia.com/#hire

## Record

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### Huntington National Bank | Web Content Marketing Manager | Sep 2025 to present
> Creative direction on the AI product team. Brand, product design and the AI workflows that ship them, plus the enablement that gets the team using them.
- 2026: Creative direction lead for platform and website UX on The 1866 Studio, announced October 2026, and its design system end to end. (announced 2026-10) `ledger:huntington_1866_studio_product_work`
- 2026: Took the Team Huntington golf platform from idea to launch: design and art direction, the Sitecore build, and the email and campaign production behind it, with brand, legal and compliance review. (idea → launch) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/case-study-huntington-golf-platform.html) `ledger:huntington_golf_campaign`
- 2025: GitHub Copilot workflows that translate Figma designs into responsive, ADA-conscious Salesforce Marketing Cloud HTML, with accessibility and compliance review intact. (days → hours) `ledger:huntington_current_ai_workflow`
- 2025: Sitecore Content Hub taxonomy and governance for 200+ marketing assets, so a distributed team ships from one system. (200+ assets) `ledger:huntington_current_dam`
- 2026: Runs internal AI enablement: the tools, guidance and practice that move colleagues from tool access to regular use. (enablement) `ledger:huntington_ai_enablement`

### Arloa | Lead AI Product Designer | Mar 2024 to Dec 2025
> Generative AI platform that helps parents manage IEPs and school communication. Product, brand and go-to-market for a four-person team.
- 2024: Brand identity, design system, web experience, acquisition flows and AI-assisted content workflows for a four-person team. (brand → product) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/case-study-arloa-special-education.html) `ledger:arloa_brand_product`
- 2025: A Claude Code content workflow took publishing from four to 12 or more pieces a month, with no added headcount. (4 → 12+ /mo) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/arloa-content-ai-automation.html) `ledger:arloa_content_output`
- 2025: Users grew 40% quarter over quarter. (+40% QoQ) `ledger:arloa_growth`
- 2025: Worked in the product codebase with Claude Code and GitHub, reviewing and merging pull requests and running UX reviews alongside engineering. (PRs merged) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/only-designer-who-also-shipped-the-code.html) `ledger:arloa_codebase_collaboration`
- 2024: Led the creative function for the company and directed an external agency on paid social and Google Ads. (creative lead) `ledger:arloa_creative_function_leadership`

### Mantium | Product Designer | Oct 2021 to Dec 2023
> Enterprise GenAI knowledge platform. Where the AI work starts.
- 2022: Owned product design for an enterprise GenAI platform across three major releases. (3 releases) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/case-study-mantium-secure-rag-chat.html) `ledger:mantium_product_scope`
- 2023: Onboarding flows and interaction patterns that took a new enterprise customer's first deployment from 2+ hours to under 30 minutes. (2h → 30min) `ledger:mantium_deployment_time`
- 2023: Cut customer onboarding from 8 screens to 2. (8 → 2 screens) `ledger:mantium_onboarding_8_to_2_screens`
- 2022: Built a centralized AI knowledge base in Notion, integrated with Slack, that cut new-hire onboarding time by about 40%. (-40% onboarding) `ledger:mantium_newhire_onboarding`

### Huntington National Bank | UX/UI Designer and Web Producer | Feb 2019 to Oct 2021
> Highest-traffic conversion pages and the email system behind them, with compliance at the table.
- 2020: Modular Salesforce Marketing Cloud email design system with 50+ reusable templates. Production time down 30%. (-30% production) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/case-study-huntington-web-redesign.html) `ledger:huntington_legacy_design_system`

### Cardinal Health | Senior Web Producer | Nov 2013 to Feb 2019
> B2B healthcare platform inside a regulated enterprise.
- 2017: Personalized Adobe Experience Manager experiences for 30,000+ healthcare professionals. 15% conversion lift through Adobe Target testing. (+15% conversion) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/case-study-cardinal-health-order-express.html) `ledger:cardinal_web_personalization`

### Skelton Media | Founder | May 2008 to present
> The studio. Client brand and web work since 2008; the agentic systems since 2024.
- 2026: DavidOS, a local-first personal operating system: machine-checked agent manifests, a generated registry, approval and verification gates, and source-traced outputs. (governed agents) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/ai-proposes-a-defined-checkpoint-decides.html) `ledger:davidos_governance`
- 2026: This site: markdown-sourced, one-command publish, a 26-check pre-deploy gate that blocks drafts, broken metadata, missing assets and leaked secrets. (26-check gate) [evidence](https://skeltonmedia.com/blog/under-the-hood-this-site.html) `ledger:skeltonmedia_publishing_pipeline`
- 2026: Open-source Agent Skills on GitHub: design-taste-skills, brand-writing-skills and security-scan-agent, built for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. (open source) [evidence](https://github.com/skeltonmedia) `ledger:github_open_source_agent_skills`

## Knows about

- creative direction
- brand identity
- design systems
- AI product design
- AI agent systems
- design-to-code (React, HTML/CSS, Python)
- Figma
- Claude Code
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Sitecore Content Hub
- Adobe Experience Manager
- marketing operations

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