Chris Bird Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Greater New York City Area, Kansas City, Nashville

///Worked on-site for Rio 2016 and Beijing 2008 as motion graphics designer under extremely tight deadlines ///Pitched, designed, animated and composited graphics packages for national networks and major brands ///Developed brand, designed and managed several website launches ///Collaborated on promo campaigns for cable networks delivering graphics treatments, color correction, special effects and finishing touches///NBC Sports, Oxygen Network, Style Network, Merv Gri n’s Crosswords, Weather Channel, Nestle, Baltimore Ravens, & more

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Project BlackBird was a successful, award winning motion graphics company with a national roster of top television networks and fortune 500 brands.///Co-developed business plan, target client analysis and initial pitch offerings directly leading to over $1 million in new business ///Helped recruit creative talent and successfully built award winning team ///Managed full creative team and multiple external vendors+partners on project by project basis ///Developed organizational systems and procedures to allow for consistent quality control of creative projects ///Created 3D photorealistic product feature/benefit videos of high end products///"Weird Al" Yankovic, Verizon, PGA, Amazon, Oxygen Network, WWE Network, University of Michigan, Garmin, Boulevard Brewery, & more

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

///Lead design team in the re-branding of a nondescript shopping network into a lifestyle based network in line with siblings Food Network, HGTV and DIY network ///Retrained, challenged and inspired existing creative team to bring up the visual aesthetic to network level ///Pitch creative concepts to senior management ///Collaborate with team to set individual goals, department goals and company-centric goals

Greater New York City Area

///Created show & promo graphics package for 7 networks (NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Telemundo, Bravo, USA and HDNet) ///Graphics packages included over 500 deliverable items, covering all 28 sports (a first) and 1210 hours of programming (a first) ///Lead the integration of After Effects workflows into existing infrastructure ///Responsible for shared art direction of 20+ member on-site design team hired for the games

Greater New York City Area

///Concept, pitch, design, animation and compositing ///Network promo packages, show packages, ID’s and navigational graphics