• Leads a diverse team of talented creatives to pitch concepts and ideas to Creative Director. • Stong communicator who works harmoniously with teams and independently.• Represents the creative department and provides feedback, help them grow, and advocate for their needs.• Owns entire product life cycle from sketch to finished product.• Creates original brand-specific artwork used across all product categories including apparel, backpacks, and bags.• Manages special projects and installations for popups and events (toys, displays, murals, statues, and props). • Completes fully realized illustrations from sketch to final CAD across products to create capsule collections.• Finalizes tech packs for manufacturing for all approved designs.• Ensures artwork is on-brand for our various licensing partners.• Pursues and researches new IPs for future licensing collaborations and stays abreast of market trends.

• Responsible for creating and maintaining new business.• Primarily responsible for acquiring new accounts in the NY tri-state area.• In charge of designing and creating project renderings for potential customers to aid in closing sales.• Self-taught and became an expert in the extensive variety of plants, flowers, holiday materials, and other available product to ensure a thorough understanding to better communicate to customers and colleagues.• Learned all aspects of the business by starting in installations, working up to Foreman, then up to Business Development and ultimately Sales & Design.• Clients include: Equinox Fitness, Time Warner Cable, JFK Airport, Scholastic, Hilton, Marriott.

• Designed concept art, character art and background art for the flagship property, Teddy Scares. (collectible plush figures with corresponding comics.)• Concepted and built packaging mock-ups with successful design used as merchandising in the Teddy Scares collection.• Created mobile application iconography and collateral within brand aesthetic.• Clients include: Worldwide Biggies, THQ, Eastern State Penitentiary, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.