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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, US

Coaching defined: Empowering someone to become intellectually engaged in a future result that is good for them and getting them to emotionally commit to take action to achieve that result.I help people tired of or burned out by their jobs explore alternative career options; whether they still want to keep their position and open something on the side or.

Austin, Texas, US

• Started one of the first fully virtual digital marketing and branding agencies, comprised of experts from some of the largest global ad agencies.
• Doubled revenues every year for the first 5 years.
• Handle all aspects of the company from finding new business to developing creative strategy, UX/UI, IA, to project management and managing clients.
• Won clients in Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, Italy, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Sri Lanka, New York, California, Texas, etc.Heresy provides:- Art Direction + Graphic Design + Illustration- Animation & Video- Brand &.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Won the Gold Medal for “Best Special Interest Magazine” by the Magazine Publishers Association (MPA).
• Was on the cover of the “Managers of the Millennium” issue just before Y2K hit and was invited to write a digital advertising column for the next one. Been doing it ever since.

Austin, Texas, US

• Over 130 leading advertising experts across six continents agree: the Ad Industry is desperately broken, but can be reinvented and righted. This is the controversial finding of “Digital Doesn’t Matter (and other.
• A “Communication Arts Advertising Annual” Recommended Read andan Amazon Kindle Top 2 ad book best seller for 3 consecutive years:
• The Kickstarter campaign (http://kck.st/WiBDcz) to fund the interactive, continually updating app version was successful.

1,000 people in 14 offices around the world from New York City to Copenhagen to Beijing to São Paulo.Clients:- the $4.5 billion Dell account (global agency of record across all divisions and all media)- Progress SoftwareAnd you thought you had a tough job.

• Based in Singapore until WPP transferred role to Enfatico in Austin.Note: Won “Overall Agency of the Year” for the first time for this period.
• Led the creative and UX/UI teams.
• Worked closely with the MDs (Singapore, London, Palo Alto, NYC, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai) to develop passion and skills for creativity within the agency.
• Raised the quality and innovation of the creative in the network to match the analytical skills for which agency was known.
• Developed intelligent, engaging advertising and marketing communications solutions for pitches and ongoing project work.
• Was directly responsible for global marketing and PR efforts.Clients (digital agency-of-record and projects) included:Cisco, Dell, Dow Corning, EMC, HP, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Interwoven, J&J, Microsoft.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managed all online activities for communicating with the more than 7,000 school board members and 560,000 district employees (for serving over four million Texas public school students).
• Developed robust methodologies for use throughout the organization to allow Internet-based content and applications to be developed and maintained by all 21 divisions of TASB, regardless of individual technical.
• Conceived relevant questions and conducted stakeholder interviews, focus groups and user acceptance testing for development of accurate communications strategies.
• Created brand and Web guidelines to be followed by all TASB divisional content owners.
• Graphic design, logo/brand development, information architecture, user interface development, content mapping, etc. for development and maintenance of TASB’s membership Web site, Intranet and other online entities.

• Helped guide the direction of the worldwide digital network in 14 countries (on the senior management team and the North America board).
• Developed and implemented creative strategies for clients.
• Directly responsible for the level of creative quality of projects.
• Worked with the global CEO and other senior staff to win new business.
• Led major client projects through initial concepts, proposals and executions.
• Represented XM’s creative position by giving talks, writing articles / papers.

• Based in Singapore and transferred to NYC for new global role.
• Business profitable from first year.
• Grown to one of the top 40 digital agencies in the world in terms of revenues within 3 years.
• Highest margins within the WPP network for any subsidiary.
• Most industry-awarded company in the Asia Pacific resulting in a high profile.
• Clients included agency of record status for:- Compaq (regionally – 14 countries) - ESPN (regionally – 18 countries)- Heineken (regionally – 12 countries)- Hong Kong Tourism Board (globally)- Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

I self-published a bi-weekly newsletter for the graphic design industry that went out to over 350 subscribing ad agencies and design houses.It contained insights, advice and step-by-step tutorials on everything from trapping to typography to color models. I also wrote about the possibilities of the Internet and advertising in those early days, providing a.

Began this Asia regional production/post-production video business as a spin-off of the Kedaung Group (see next position).Responsible for all creative and technical decisions as well as having a significant voice in the direction of the agency. Generally managed day-to-day processes and employees and liaised with clients. One of the first implementations.

Borg Elarab, Alexandria, EG

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia and then transferred to Singapore to new subsidiary.At the time, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of glass, tableware, and flatware.Established design and photography studio to manage needs of 23 conglomerate subsidiaries throughout Asia as well as a pre-press service bureau for both in-house and external.

Austin, Texas, US

Specialized in publishing projects such as the teachers‘ guides and test booklets for the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) every student in the US is given. I did layout, numerous spot illustrations, a bit of design and signage, graphic production, pre-flighting and a lot of maintaining of the company‘s computers and network.Clients included:- Harcourt.

“Dimyon” means “imagination” in Hebrew. We were a graphic design house that specialized in presentations using an early platform called “VideoShow.”Clients included:- Digital (DEC)- Israeli Air Force

• Operated/maintained various equipment for color separation (imagesetters), high-res scanning and all aspects of pre-press.
• Responsible for maintenance of all computers and the BBS where clients uploaded jobs for output.
• Performed traditional cut & paste, layout, design and typesetting on all kinds of publications with tight turnaround times.
• Trained staff and clients on imaging systems and how to best use pre-Photoshop tools and early computer illustration applications.One of the first digital pre-press shops in the US. Clients were mainly in-house studios.

• Wrote copy and scripts for various walk-in clients’ advertising and marketing needs.
• Designed and produced layouts in the form of newspaper placements, coupons, brochures and fliers.
• Helped students with dissertations, theses, résumés and cover letters.

Austin, Texas, US

• This was my one and only internship and it was back when NI only had about 60-70 people instead of the more than 7,000 it has now.I performed a number of duties including:
• Maintaining a PDP-11/44 miniframe (Unix, backing up computer tapes).
• Writing Global Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) testing programs in a number of computer languages (mainly porting from one to the another — e.g., Fortran, C, Forth, Pascal, BASIC) and then checking them via toggle.
• Wire-wrapping of multi-layer integrated circuit boards for testing prior to soldering.
• Illustrating products and designing sales catalogs.
• Driving the mail van (my favorite activity!).

Computer Science

Business Management

Master Class In Digital