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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Hands on creative lead developing multichannel brand campaigns for Navy, Ford and Texas A&M. Pushing to create strategically smart work that cuts through and commands the attention of our audience.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• I led the multi-channel social, digital, film and online video creative efforts on brands LIFEWTR, Bubly, Cars.com and #EqualityCantWait done in partnership with Melinda Gates company Pivotal in Seattle.
• Led creative efforts to hone and craft the LIFEWTR super bowl launch. Launch included a full funnel marketing campaign across every media type including digital, TV, social activation with John Legend, website.
• Led creative pitch and win for Cars.com with a complete rebranding of the company, new brand strategy and visual identity. We Met at Cars.com omni-channel campaign featured pre-roll that was the highest performing on.
• Led and developed #EqualityCan’tWait in partnership with Pivotal Ventures, Melinda Gates’ investment and incubation company which is working to accelerate progress on gender equality in the U.S. Collaborating with.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Creative Director leading all creative efforts on film, digital, interactive projects for Gates Foundation Cannes Chimera, Coca-Cola, Secret Mean Stinks and Sprite.
• Won the Cannes Chimera award with HumanKind Stock Ticker (HMKD) concept.
• Led and developed a series of viral videos for Secret which collectively had over 20 million views.
• Worked with an amazing internal team of brand creatives to create Secret’s Takeover, a fully digital effort that linked 2,000 schools live on YouTube. This project was shortlisted at Cannes.

New York, United States

• At Grey NY, I was an Assoc. Creative Director responsible for concepting, crafting, presenting and producing a wide range of online, social and broadcast campaigns for Canon’s 7D, 5D and Rebel DSLR digital cameras.
• Lead creative on Canon’s Cannes Gold Lion winning Project Imagin8ion that partnered with Ron Howard to allow photographers to inspire a Hollywood feature with a single still. Built on YouTube, the project received.
• Lead creative on Canon’s Cannes Gold Lion winning interactive experience ‘The Story Beyond the Still’ for the Canon 7D. Canon and Vimeo partnered to allow digital filmmakers to complete each other’s sentences in a.

Los Angeles, California, United States

I spent 3 years as a Commercial Film Director signed with Tate Films in Los Angeles. I collaborated with producers, directors of photography, stylists, art director, wardrobe and editors to film projects for Levi's, 24 Hour Fitness and Microsoft.

Los Angeles, California, United States

I spent 3 years as a Commercial Film Director signed with Headquarters Films in Los Angeles. I collaborated with producers, directors of photography, stylists, art director, wardrobe and editors to film projects for Starbucks and T-Mobile.

San Francisco, California, United States

• I was an Assoc. Creative Director on Fox Sports, Levis and PlayStation. Boards Magazine had me ranked as the most awarded Art Director in the world.
• I energized baseball fans for the upcoming playoffs with the Cannes Gold Lion awarded broadcast campaign 'Beware of Things Made In October' for Fox Sports.
• Created the Fox Sports Hockey campaign 'The More You Watch, The Tougher You Get' which motivated the fans to watch each and every game with the promise that they would get stronger and stronger just like the pros.
• Launched the Sony Playstation 2 with the broadcast spot 'PS9' which looked far into the future at what gaming would look and feel like in 50 years.

San Francisco, California, United States

I pitched and won The Wall Street Journal account at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. This led to the creation our WSJ 'Adventures in Capitalism' campaign which reimagined the papers legendary masthead by literally inserting personality and color in ways people weren't expecting. This campaign won multiple One Show pencils.

Portland, Oregon, United States

• I was an Art Director at Wieden & Kennedy creating campaigns for Nike Tennis, Nike Baseball, Nike Basketball, ESPN and Microsoft.
• Wrote and art directed Nike's 'Guerilla Tennis' spot featuring Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi taking over a downtown city intersection to start a game of tennis. This spot changed the public perception of the overly.
• Art director on the 1995 Nike Baseball Strike campaign 'Play ball, please' that featured Ryan Stiles alone in the stands of Jack Murphy stadium doing The Wave and clocking the speed of pigeons which a radar gun. This.

Bachelor'S Degree, Marketing/Marketing Management, General

Bfa, Advertising