With 20+ years of design/creative direction experience across numerous categories, I’m able to handle just about any brief that comes my way. Healthcare/pharma is where I’ve spent most of my years. From fully-integrated campaigns to one-off banner ads, I’m able to create multiple ideas quickly, on strategy, working with or without a writing partner.After 12 years on the agency side, I worked in-house for 10 years at a media company, Butler/Till. There I learned how to engage effectively with audiences mainly in the healthcare/pharma, insurance and financial categories. The exposure and learning that I gained about media as it relates to creative execution was an experience I carry through in all of the creative work that I help lead and execute.Another part of my career experience has been creating presentations and I found it to be a nice change of pace from campaign and design project work. Similar, in that the goal is capturing the audiences’ attention and making the message memorable. But different as I was working with a half-dozen or more teammates and finding a way to keep one cohesive message/look/feel throughout the deck.My patience, organizational and design skills, plus my ability to ask the right questions, made me the go-to presentation person when large RFPs and pitch decks were in development, in addition to the campaign work I was doing. There was never a dull moment!All this experience enables me to be a self-contained designer/presentation creator. I’m able to design any type of communication and turn it into a compelling PowerPoint presentation, pitch deck, creative presentation etc. - using existing brand templates or creating new ones. I’m happy to sharpen existing presentations too. Being able to help develop the creative solutions alongside the strategy of how to sell them to clients has been a powerful aspect to my skillset.When I’m not designing effective presentations or helping lead design teams, I’m volunteering as team manager for my daughter Zoe’s travel and high school softball teams. I enjoy sharing my time organizing everything off the field – from tournament hotels, game schedules and uniform orders to team budget and expenses. This additional role keeps my ability to juggle multiple projects sharp and keeps me close to one of Zoe’s biggest passions.