- Spearheaded AI design initiatives, enhancing creative output and operational efficiency through the integration of AI tools.- Drive advertising design strategies, creating visually compelling campaigns that increased brand visibility and consumer engagement across diverse media platforms.- Direct creative website design projects, elevating user experience and brand identity through innovative design and aesthetic.- Orchestrated the look and feel of 12 distinct direct-to-consumer brands, harmonizing brand identity while tailoring unique customer experiences across all digital touchpoints.- Pioneered the integration of AI-driven insights into design processes, significantly improving design quality and speed to market for new products and campaigns.- Collaborated cross-functionally with marketing, product development, and sales teams to align design strategies with business objectives, boosting brand cohesion and market impact.- Lead creative direction for photoshoots and live projects, ensuring alignment with brand vision and delivering high-quality visual content.

Lead the development of design, advertising, communications, branding, motion design, and interactive design elements for an LA-based design firm that drives innovative interactive experiences for clients that engage customers and drive ROI. Contribute to business development efforts by leading, producing, and directing client pitches. Assemble project teams, and develop and implement creative strategies, budgets, and schedules for client projects. Selected Achievements:• Translate pitch ideas into production for projects by utilizing client and field knowledge to produce concepts that address client needs from the start.

Managed creative design efforts for a leading LA based interactive marketing agency with global Fortune 100 clients while overseeing the design department. Contributed to business development efforts by directing the production of pitch presentations, project budgets, and schedules. Responsible for creative vision and concepts for design department projects, and created interactive and motion graphics experiences, and provided art and creative direction for major clients including: Facebook, Audi, Toyota, ExxonMobil, Boeing, Intel, Toshiba, Shell, Walgreens, Biogen, and Amgen. Assembled project teams, and led, directed, and mentored over 20 staff members, including art directors, designers, and production artists. Selected Achievements:• Produced interactive mural wall and large format cinematic experience for Audi at the LA Auto Show.• Directed worldwide traveling museum exhibit for Boeing that was displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.• Grew department from 10 to 25 staff members.• Reduced project spending by implementing a tiered system that promoted internal growth and efficiency.Achieved project style frame success rate of 90% by successfully anticipating client needs.

·Art direct interactive and motion graphic packages for major TV and film for clients including: Universal Studios, Sony Studios, Fox Studios, Lionsgate / Summit, Blizzard games·Lead and design iPad user interfaces and second screen experiences·Lead and manage over 10 designers and production artists·Responsible for look and feel of projects·Create and animate designs with fast turn-around·Prepare designs for production·Assist in the schedule of the design department on a daily basis

Managed identity print packaging for a prominent interactive marketing agency with global Fortune 500 clients. Designed interactive and motion graphic packages for high profile clients including: Intel, Monster.com, BAE Systems, Amgen, and Edwards Life Sciences. Created touchscreen user interfaces for a variety of applications, including stand-alone kiosks, mobile experiences, and 20-foot tall multi-user projection walls.Selected Achievements:• Led team that won four Telly Awards for motion graphics and animation.• Promoted to Creative Design Director for contributions to company growth.

Developed, rendered, and delivered the visual on-air and online identity for a 24-hour cable news network with over four-million viewers. Managed and mentored design department and three junior designers under tight budget and deadline restraints. Led production of graphics and program graphic packages from concept through execution, including title treatments, lower thirds, promo graphics, and website pages for the channel and multiple award-winning documentaries. Developed corporate branding materials, including brochures, advertisements, and graphic set pieces. Selected Achievements:• Emmy Award nominee for documentary design package for “Hard Time.”• Employee of the Quarter.

24 Hour Cable News networking serving over 4 million people. Boston, MAPerformed lead role in producing graphics packages for multiple award winning documentaries·Create corporate branding, brochures, ads for newspapers, magazines and websites, constructed graphic set pieces·Responsible for program graphic packages from concept to execution under tight deadlines.. Create high quantity of daily designs for broadcast

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