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Wayne, NJ, US

New Jersey

• Developed branding for STEM and creative play products along with related packaging, instructions and assembly specifications for educational toy brand.
• Designed and produced seasonal packaging for Target & Walmart dollar shops for national decoration and notion brand.
• Conceived, designed and produced seasonal shops, feature shops, visual merchandising displays and national magazine advertising for Toys”R”Us, including licensed assets like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Apple iPod and.
• Servicing a boutique cosmetic & skin care client; developed branding, packaging solutions and online presence to challenge aggressive retail, online and broadcast-advertised competitors. Produced line extensions.

Morristown, New Jersey, United States

• Interface with multiple client-facing teams to desemeniate both technical and creative needs across a wide variety of media formats, both physical and digital.
• Review projects from Art Directors and with Studio Artists, based of nature, to ensure proper build.
• Help create and utilize best practices or deployment to vendors and development teams.

Fairfield, New Jersey, United States

• Strategize and create email campaigns, social media content, animation, print & digital advertising.
• Create and update packaging, render displays, merchandising concepts and web page mock-ups.
• Steward and grow two brands asset libraries, developing new assets and establishing usage guidelines.

• Created standards and templates for POP across all channels. Supervised annual outdoor play program POP, including photo direction & supervising freelance talent.
• Developed creative for seasonal feature shops and licensed feature shops for Star Wars, TRON: Legacy, Avengers, Barbie, Disney’s Cinderella, Lego Chima, Skylanders and more.
• Executed visuals for email promotions, home pages, A-spots and other digital vehicles.

• Detailed production of retail packaging on the Post Cereals account for brands such as Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles, Honey Bunches-of-Oats, Shredded Wheat, Honey Comb and Great Grains.
• Maintained Post brand equity and mandatory color on core product and across promotions.

• Serving on-site to Novartis Consumer Health Company; collaborated with client-side teams to develop new products, line extensions and respective packaging. Maintained existing brand equity and facilitated smooth flow.
• For Gerber brands, assumed responsibility for domestic and international package design and production art for Baby Care and Wellness categories, redesigning over 400 skus.
• For Novartis OTC, created production art for Triaminic, Theraflu, Buckley’s and Gas-X brands.

• Managed art direction and production for hospitality division, supervising creative staff, directing design and execution for print and web advertising, business collateral, direct mail, event media and display.
• Guided technical production of internal and out-sourced digital assets. Created original illustration and photographic work concurrent with project parameters.
• Teamed with marketing to create advertising concepts and copy.
• Provided technical support and maintenance for Macintosh creative team.