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Excelsior, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Drive business growth by developing strategic creative design content, assets and packaging graphics.• Produce visual assets for various digital platforms including social media, email campaigns, websites, etc.• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and the Creative Strategist to execute briefs into visually engaging creative content that aligns with project goals & brand guidelines.• Lead design implementation for all Catalina Crunch packaging.• Support digital asset management platform implementation and management (AIR).• Ensure consistency and brand compliance across all visual assets.• Lead best practices across all creative assets.• Responsible for managing and organizing design assets, including but not limited to images, fonts, and project files, ensuring that they are properly tagged and follow optimized file conventions for accessibility and easy retrieval.• Manage multiple projects and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.• Communicate with cross-functional teams implementing feedback and explaining rationale behind design decisions.• Collaborate with creative agencies, printers, photographers, sales teams while overseeing all projects from conceptual ideation through final consumer interaction.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading the creative vision for Post Consumer Brands portfolio including Honey Bunches of Oats, Great Grains, Grape Nuts, Raisin Bran, Shredded Wheat and Hot Cereals while developing effective internal communications for Post Consumer Brands.Closely collaborating with creative agencies, marketing, merchandising teams, brand managers and design partners to bring creative design to consumers acting as brand steward. Creative Director for Social Creative Content and managing design team.Responsible for exploring and proposing new design opportunities, presenting and refining conceptual work to marketing teams within specified timelines. Directly work with Project Managers to efficiently manage projects from start to finish within budget. Strong attention to creative strategy, detail, innovation and aesthetics in order to solve problems effectively using design.

Deephaven, Mn

• Manage, inspire, create, and coordinate design teams to produce strategic, effective, conceptual creative for major clients and brands with an expertise in package design.• Clients include General Mills, Chattem, McCormick, Rustoleum, ConAgra, Scotts, Georgia Pacific, & Giant Eagle (private label).

• Design Director specializing in consumer package design, project and team management, concepting, art and photo direction.• 2001 Appointed Design Director for the Kraft Account and New Business• Worked on major client brands including Kraft, Nabisco, General Mills, Caribou Coffee, Georgia Pacific, Kimberly Clark, Honeywell, Molson USA, Crayola, Unilever, Breathe Right, White Wave & Corelle

Bfa, Communication Design

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Design And Visual Communications, General

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