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New York, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Art Director across 4 budding brands under the CKBG umbrella: Superbird (tequila), Komos (tequila), Stuzzi (hot sauce), and Doladira (aperitivo). In this position I worked on branding, pitches, packaging, social, video, and OOH, while also directing photoshoots and contributing to brand strategy. As part of the leadership for a small team of 4 creatives and a handful of freelancers, whether the task is big or small, we do it all!

Manhattan, New York, Us

A hands-on Art Director role on the Consumer Brands team where I both lead and executed the development of visual treatment for a wide range of creative, including social, web, banner ads, OOH, logos, branding, style guides, photography selection, and more.Collaborated with copywriters and wider team to create pitches for new business. This included conceptual problem solving per the client's brief, writing tag lines, scripts, and strategic rational, building mood boards, mocking up key visuals, 360 creative, ideating strategic executions and partnerships, and presenting work both internally and to the clients.[Clients: Capital One, HSS, Rock Center, Stackwell, Acrisure, MintNFT, Talk Space, MSK, Amazon.]

Manhattan, New York, Us

Created layout and visual treatments for campaigns of paid advertising for clients such as Capital One and Amazon. Pulled stock photography and video, built image mood boards, contributed to new client pitches.

New York City, Ny, Us

One of the craziest jobs I've ever had was working for Hawkfish during the presidential primary run for Mike Bloomberg 2020, first on the Merch team and then on the Social team. It ran like a small city with everyone pulling 60-80 hours each week. Demand was high and turn around was fast.When his campaign ended, right around the time COVID hit, we pivoted to working for other clients that had a connection to Bloomberg, which were mostly focused on COVID awareness at the time. This work collectively included designs for social media and the web, merch design, art direction of motion graphics for social, quote graphics, rapid response concepts, and more. [Clients: Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bloomberg 2020 Presidential Primary.]

Chicago, Il, Us

Redesigned and maintained their flagship and secondary sites (custom WordPress implementation, UI/UX, front-end ). Developed campaign concepts and visual treatment for promotional material as well as recruitment and educational campaigns. Shot and edited video and photography for internal and external needs, including the alumni magazine, a health awareness campaign for the school's clinic (the IEI), annual report videos and holiday videos, and recruitment material for prospective students. Refined visual internal presentations, documents and processes, and was responsible for general art direction, design, and consistency for all communications from the college.

Chicago, Il, Us

Initially a freelance position through Creative Circle. My first tasks were to update the design and function of their flagship website, ICO.EDU, as well as their clinical site, and other internal student and client dashboards. I also contributed to look and feel of internal and external promotional material, and even shot photography for the alumni magazine, and video for internal multimedia presentations.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Freelance for 5 years, most often through Creative Circle. Employers included Manifest Digital, bswift, The Royal Order, Metal Blade Records, Deathwish Records, ThinkForex, Zocalo, Aspen, The Pampered Chef, the Milk Factory, Sittercity, and the Illinois College of Optometry. These positions required design of web and print layouts, promotional materials, landing pages, banner ads, email campaigns, album layout and merch, and front-end development.Clients included Chevy, Jaguar Land Rover, Discover, Cricket, Nissan, Gogo Inflight Internet, Allstate, ThinkForex, and more.

New York, Ny, Us

HTML, CSS, and JQuery for the Empire Carpets redesign of their website.

Chicago, Il, Us

Maintained large format printers. Prepared documents for printing. Troubleshooting with documents that wouldn't work correctly.

Brooklyn, New York, Us

Motion Graphics Summer Intern! Worked on the opening for an MTV show called "I Hate My 30's", assisted with shoots, cleaned up digital files, and got lunch for the crew.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa

Bfa, Graphic Design, Moving Image

Associates, Art