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Does your brand need a refresh? I can help. Trust it to someone who’s delivered results for over 30 years. Fast affordable creative solutions with big agency experience.

Championed an amazing team of creatives. Driving the vision of the brand mission and vision. Brands: Orgain, Kevita, Truss CBD, PayPal, Evolution Fresh, Organic Valley, Fidelity, Cakebread Vinyard, Pella Windows, LocTite Adhesive, Fidelity, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder Confections

"Developing smart, strategic design solutions that transcend all channels of communication while creating emotional relevance."

Managed the Best Buy Advertising Integrated Design Team.• Led an internal design team at Best Buy that created award-winning work; saving the corporation millions in outsourcing costs.• Managed and designed a Gift Card program which saw an increase in gift card issuance by 20-40% YOY and record-breaking store sales.• Re-Branded the Reward Zone program, increasing membership from 8MM to 24MM in one year, with half of all Best Buy purchases being made by Reward Zone members.• Creatively and strategically helped lead the Holiday campaigns for Best Buy in which sales surpassed expectations. Black Friday, Thanksgiving weekend and Cyber Monday set new records for transactions both in-store and on-line.• Won the pitch against BBDO New York for the Best Buy Summer Campaign. Summer campaign was recognized for cross-functional achievement at Retail Advertising Council Award Show.• Contributed to the Best Buy Project Holiday Digital Experience. The campaign was recognized by the Retail Advertising Council annual awards show for creativity and depth of integration.

Creative concepting, art direction and design. • Clients included Target, General Mills, Wilsons Leather, Pixar, Dreamworks, Lucas Films, Tiger Woods Learning Center, St. Jude Medical Center, St. John’s University, Callaway Golf, Mervyns• Produced Target Racing direct mail piece that returned a breakthrough 11% redemption.• Extinguished last-minute client fires while staying cool and focused.

Designed and directed projects from end-to-end.• Clients included Northwest Airlines, Boston Scientific, GLC, and Domtar Paper.• Medalist at The Show advertising award ceremony for Domtar Paper promotion.• Contributed to winning pitch for SciMed account.

Designed and directed marketing solutions for the in-line skate industry from inital concept through final production. Managed team of 3 designers for the marketing department.• Created award-winning work for the in-line skate industry.• Designed new skate product lines and packaging for the company creating new categories while givng them national exposure.• Reduced packaging cost by 15% with innovative POS design for Tough Guys Wheels.