Designer • Musician
Pete Ficht is the founder of GurUX Bend, a UX/UI Design & Consulting Shop located in Bend, OR. He was also recently the UX/UI Designer at Laird Superfood, in Sisters, Oregon, and taught a UX Design class at Oregon State University - Cascades. View/download design resume.
Pete is a 20-year veteran of Portland design agencies and has held the roles of Creative Director and Sr. User Experience Designer. He is also an expert business strategist and has worked with clients such as Citibank, Storables, Made in Oregon and PictureFrames.com. He has designed for software, web and mobile apps in such diverse areas as e-Commerce, banking and military intelligence. View his design portfolio here.
Besides his UX/UI and business strategy expertise, Pete is an excellent writer of web content and business requirements. And he has experience with SEO, social media, HTML/CSS coding, graphic design, and audio & video editing. Click here for more information.
Writer
Pete has written two TV pilots, two screenplays, four produced plays, and co-written a rock musical. He’s had short stories, poetry, music reviews, and a comic strip published.
In 2018, Pete’s teleplay The Doll House won "First Place - Best Teleplay" at the Oregon Independent Film Festival, won "Honorable Mention" at the Los Angeles Reel Film Festival, and was a finalist at the LA INDIE Film Fest and Final Draft’s Big Break Screenwriting Contest.
His teleplay Dark End of the Street was an official selection at the Lake Charles Film Festival.
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Director
Pete has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tulane University in New Orleans. Recently, he has directed videos, commercials, and PSAs for clients Wahoo Films and Wild Bells.
He directed numerous plays in college and grad school, wrote and performed children's theater, and was a member of two improv comedy groups (and founded one of them).
Pete is extremely skilled at working with actors, having taught acting at Tulane University. He is also an excellent script doctor and editor for scripts that need punching up.
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Musician
Pete is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has toured the country as a working musician, appearing at South by Southwest, New Orleans Jazz Fest, MusicFestNW in Portland, and Munch & Music in Bend.
He has released numerous albums with bands such as the House Levelers, The State Flowers, (2017 Oregon Music Hall of Fame inductees) King Black Acid, and Wild Bells.
He recently co-wrote the book and composed the music for Senioritis, a rock musical. Since moving to Bend, he’s been a member of AM Clouds and two Beatles tribute bands.
To hear and learn more about Pete’s music history, visit the Wild Bells site.