• Marketing Consulting - Advertising, Graphic Design, Marketing Services including B2B, Consumer, Experiential, Gorilla, Trade Show / Event and Internet / Social Marketing.• Brand management, online strategy, search engine optimization and social media consulting.• Project Management and Print Production including direct mail and packaging.

• Managed a team of four print buyers and project managers that produces marketing materials for Giant Eagle, GetGo, GEX Express, Market District and Valu King Stores .• Partnered with the marketing manager of the perishables LOB to streamline print production and negotiated long-term contracts resulting in 60% cost savings on signs and tags which allowed him to increase his spend on direct media by 80%.• Coordinated Special Events, Corporate Initiatives and Grand Opening materials.• Developed new marketing materials for Giant Eagle, GEX Experss and GetGo Convenience Stores.• Oversaw the production, packing and distribution of promotional retail marketing and signage materials to all corporate chains.

• Managed production of marketing materials for Prestige Brands - Chloraseptic, Clear eyes, Comet, Murine and Prell Shampoo; including packaging, advertising publication, coupons and POP/POS. Increased sales of all products by more than 25% over a 2 year period.• Other clients and products include Airborne, Bruegger’s, Carpet One, Dad’s Pet Foods, Hoover, Hunington Bank, Ohio Health, Shop’N Save Sugardale Foods, and Sony• New product launches include: Dad’s Nut-tastics and Goodies-to-Go, Comet Toilet Tablets, Comet Clean & Flush, and Chloraseptic Relief Strips for which we produced over $1 million in sales in the first 12 weeks with only one sku of the new product.• Managed the Airborne Lounge Public Relations Event at Sundance Film Festival - 2006.• Earned an MBA in Marketing from Point Park University while working full time.

• Marketing Consulting - Advertising, Graphic Design, Marketing Services and Project Management.• Attended CCAC full time to earn an Associates Degree in Marketing Management.

• Medical equipment and device marketing experience with clients – Acorn, Biocompatibles, Medtronic AVE and Vidar including trade ads, collateral, trade shows, events and corporate branding.• Managed preparation and production of marketing materials for trade show and conventional marketing projects including direct mail, collateral, print advertising, large format graphics, and booth experiences.• Actively involved in marketing strategy and development of booth theme for all client projects.• Supervised production department of five people including a traffic manager, a project manager for print, a project manager for web projects , and two designers as well as interns and freelance artists.• Managed the development of new business proposals, web projects and all other agency productions.• Project managed the Samsung Pavillion for the 2000 Summer Olympics, a $22M project which delivered a half million visitors, twice the target goal set by the client.• Clients included ADC, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, Ford Motor Company, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Nokia, Nortel Networks, PPG, Samsung and Schering/Key Pharmaceuticals.

• Supervised the development and production of marketing materials for the agency and it’s clients.• Managed project managers, print buyers, traffic managers and graphic designers within the agency and studio.• Coordinated scheduling with the media department, outside vendors and publications to ensure that $20 million in marketing materials were delivered on time and on budget. • Project managed a direct mail promotion for Eaton Truck Parts that produced 45% return (over 10 times higher then normal 2- 4% direct mail results) doubling their list for lead generation.• Clients included Eaton Truck Parts, Heinz, Highmark, J D Edwards, Imation, Pennsylvania Department of Economic Development, Pittsburgh Pirates, PNC Bank, PPG, Sheetz and Zippo.

• Supervised two shift operation of pre-press department.• Negotiated and purchased offset and flexographic printing for Point of Purchase display production.• Coordinated the production of 4-color process separations for the screen printing operation.• Managed production of printed materials for a wide variety of clients.