Led a small, tight-knit team during a transitional period at this young, yet well established firm. Led the CNA Insurance brand refresh along with Interactive branding for International Bus (Navistar), Cat’s Pride, Verathon and others. Also led the rebranding of the firm along with mentoring of their core design team.

Helped grow the internal creative agency initiative for SGK Chicago. I was responsible for maintaining and growing their AOR relationship with several clients with print and digital advertising collateral. Streamlined creative output and improved client and project management for a robust creative group and the associated internal print and digital production groups—provided creative oversight for a team of 25-30 creative professionals.

Worked to bring creative leadership and oversight to this already nimble, and talented digital agency prior to its evolution into Accenture Song. Led out and built a creative team and creative center for the Chicago office to help support their multiple offices, clients, and disciplines. Led projects for Cartier, Motorola Mobility, ConAgra (La Choy, P.F.Changs, Alexia, Pam), Carbonite, Carhartt, Schneider Electric, Juno Lighting Group, Northwestern Medicine, AJG and ChildHungerEndsHere.com

Worked closely with traditional teams to activate 360 consideration and social integration. Clients included Sears, Craftsman, Kenmore, Disney, Bud Light, Rust-Oleum, and Kraft. Helped grow Agency of the Year, mcgarrybowen’s Chicago digital offerings into a complete and maneuverable integrated advertising group. Ideated the social and digital integration for Bud Light’s award winning Weego ad, and helped the brand achieve record levels of social activation during Super Bowl XLVI.

Digital Creative Director Between Wunderman and Designkitchen. Creator/Creative Director on ClubBK.com, Burger King kids program. Led a cooperative, agile, Wunderman and Designkitchen team in initializing and sustaining the ClubBK.com kids program. Created the original story and characters that have become the brand facing representatives for Burger King kid's marketing. Led ideation for direct marketing initiatives and mechanics for both moms and kids, as well as implementation of the front end website. Created and implemented game mechanics for the online MMO flash based kid's experience: social profile, avatar creator, inventory and economy, mechanics and gameplay. Month to month operations involved interactions with Burger King brand partners (Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, Marvel etc.) to integrate their creative into the Club BK universe, creating one-off games and experiences for the partner brands, as well as overall improvements to Club BK.Led creative team in motion-graphics, illustration, POS, front-end design, and game design.

Led Ideation and creative on new business pitches for Sears, MetLife, Oreos, Burger King, NutraSweet, Scotts and Office Depot. Directed creative teams in interactive design, UX and motion for Motorola, LIfe Fitness, Burger King, BK Racing, Scotts, Legacy, Radio-Info, Designkitchen.com as well as ideation and design with other projects in the shop prior to them being acquired by WPP as Blast Radius.

Led internal and external digital initiatives for the Noble brand as well as new business out of the Chicago office. Participated in creative workflow and restructuring, integration of interactive design workflow, and implementation of the Culturewav.es marketing product across both the Chicago and Missouri offices.

Designed and led creative for Sony digital and print advertising. Developed branding for Sony Xplode and Sony NAV-U products as well as digital and print advertising for the *new* SONY Walkman, Cyber-Shot, HD Handycam and Bravia products. Participated in developing interactive presence for all brands in-house, as well as promotional and consideration work.

Chicago based experimental art gallery.

SBI/RazorfishOtherwise IncorporatedOprah.comSeven WorldwideLeapnetLiquidus MarketingOrbitz.comThirdwave LLC.Chicago TribuneLeo BurnettJWT

Internal Branding and interactive presence as well as Air-tran, PickFLA, Corona, Hyatt, Master Lock and others.

Developed interactive and branding for Ameritrade, AIG, and larger Ogilvy initiatives.

Worked under the tutelage of Carlos Segura to drive his new media practice and lead out interactive design and branding at www.segura-inc.com alongside our startup, 37Signals.com.