Gregory Hom Email & Phone Number

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Currently, my responsibilities at this leading cybersecurity company involve not only overseeing the global brand expression across all global touchpoints, but also ensuring consistent messaging and visual identity to effectively engage with our customers and partners._ Lead a global team of brand designers, overseeing their work to ensure it accurately reflects the brand system, maintains the highest quality standards, and effectively meets the needs of our target audience._ Oversee internal and external video teams, ensuring that motion content (animation to B-roll to live action), adheres to the brand visual style and voice and is produced to the highest quality._ Collaborate closely with internal web development teams to ensure that the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designs are in harmony with the brand message and visual style._ Guide and mentor a global team of strategists, brand and web designers, videographers, and writers, both internally and externally._ Spearhead the development of a unified approach to brand expressions for collateral systems, demand generation campaigns, advertising, web, and both virtual and live events._ Foster efficient cross-team collaboration to maximize productivity and synergy, including events, demand generation, public relations, and internal communications._ Manage and direct outside agencies in a variety of cross disciplinary executions_ Maintain a comprehensive set of guidelines to ensure a unified and consistent approach across all brand expressions.

San Jose, Ca

fishbowl design provides strategic branding solutions that meets both the business needs as well as the emotional needs. We work with companies, from start-ups and non-profits to those on the Fortune 500 list, to help them create branded experiences through multiple mediums (from paper to pixels). Client list includes HP (Compaq), VMware, SanDisk, Sun Microsystems, Cadence, EFI, Symantec Kentucky Fried Chicken (Yum! Brands) and The Jonas Brothers. The work includes strategy, identity, websites, apps, collateral, packaging and environmental design. And we have been called upon to support some great agencies with their work—including argo design (Austin, TX), frog design (San Francisco, CA), OIC (Pasadena, CA), Bonfire Communications (San Francisco, CA) and Catapult Works (Campbell, CA).

San Jose, Ca

At SJSU I teach several design classes including an ethics in design class. The goal of the class is to help students think of themselves as a brand/product and how the choices they make define who they are. The class also emphasizes how to best express themselves through their thinking, work, portfolio, presentations and behavior. Over the years I have taught classes that include foundation and advanced design, typography, portfolio and application/tools. I have also taught design courses at CCA in San Francisco. I love teaching and feel whole heartily that all designers should teach once in their lifetime.

Santa Clara, California, United States

As the Global Creative Director at Cloudera, I led the development of the brand's strategic story and creative direction across diverse channels, including advertising (print, video, display, social), events (physical and virtual), web design, visual systems, and environmental branding._ Created, managed, and mentored a team of cross-functional professionals, from project managers and designers to videographers and writers to achieve the highest possible creative quality._ Managed and directed external agencies to deliver on brand creative solutions._ Contributed to all phases of the design process­−including research and needs assessment, design development, and implementation.

San Jose, Ca

As Creative Director at this top Silicon Valley agency I was involved with building, managing and creatively guiding the brand team across multiple offices. Special areas of focus included developing brand strategies and visual design systems for brand identity, print collateral, packaging, environmental design, as well as advertising and promotions. Clients included GE (Predix), DocuSign, HP, Oracle, Aruba, FireEye, Nasdaq and Lumileds (Philips).

As the Creative Director at VMware I led their creative services group. The early portion was spent working (along with Randy Burgess) with Tolleson Design in the development of VMware's new brand visual design system. The years that followed was spent shepherding, developing, and expanding that system across all touch points, including websites, collateral, events, packaging, and environmental design.

Menlo Park, Ca

As the Creative Director (contract) I provided creative leadership and mentoring to the design and production teams. I worked with creative agencies and the internal staff to forge productive, efficient partnerships on brand programs including brand architecture, identity systems, campaigns, promotions and packaging.

Sunnyvale, Ca

frog design is a global design and innovation firm founded in 1969 by industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger. They work with Fortune 500 brands and helps them in designing, engineering, and commercializing new products and services. Services include interaction and product design, strategy and brand development, design research, and software engineering services. My stint at frog was long and adventurous. Year one was spent designing keyboard graphics and evolved over the years to where I was charged with managing the Brand and Strategy group. This included being responsible for the business (e.g., new business development and recruiting) as well as the creative side (e.g., creative directing and mentoring). Clients were vast over those years and included SAP, Oracle, Disney, Motorola, Siemens, wine.com, Dell and Nvidia.