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Big Sky Meadow Village, Montana, United States

Big Sky Meadow Village, Montana, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Bozeman, Montana, United States

• Manages an agency comprised of freelance art directors, illustrators, artists, copywriters, account executives and social media experts.
• Conducts client communication pertaining to strategy, budgets, creative briefs, deliverables, media recommendations, concept development, measureable outcomes and billing.
• Oversees and leads client meetings.
• Authors creative briefs, leads creative brainstorming sessions and communicates client thoughts to assigned creative team; reviews, modifies and approves all creative concepts prior to going to client.
• Executes successful branding, rebranding and ongoing creative exercises with clients in CPG, Design, Entertainment, Financial, Health Care, Lifestyle, Luxury and Tourism verticals.

Bozeman, Montana, United States

• Spearheaded the transition of the business from strictly a branding consultancy to a full-service advertising agency by:o Recruiting and building creative teams.o Training and mentoring creative personnel.o Consulting.
• Managed and oversaw the development of all marketing/advertising campaigns from creative brief to conceptual design to production and implementation.
• Effectively assumed the overall lead—not just creatively—on all agency accounts, ranging from Adidas to Big Sky Resort to Montana State University to Yellowstone Country Montana Tourism.
• Balanced creative deadlines, production timeframes and budgets to produce award-winning results; awarded more creative honors than any other agency in Montana during my tenure.
• Conducted multiple new business pitches every year and expanded on many of those pitches by becoming the Agency of Record for those clients.
• Won Montana’s first ADDY Best of Show Digital Award, as well as multiple W3 Online Awards for web design and development.

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

• Collaborated regularly with the account team, the channel marketing team and the CRM team on the creation of unexpected seasonal, geographic and situational solutions for growing the awareness and business of Maker’s.
• Achieved double-digit growth for Maker’s Mark, year after year, in the otherwise declining category of dark distilled spirits; these impressive results led to business and creative engagements with Laphroaig Single.
• Created, presented and won campaign pitches for Louisville Slugger, National City Bank, Papa John’s Pizza, University of Louisville and Valvoline Motor Oil.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Creative team member (art, presentations, pitches, etc.) on select client business, including Andersen Windows, Domino’s Pizza, Minnesota Wild (NHL), Toro Company, US Ski Team and Verizon, for Minneapolis’ largest.