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Austin, Texas Area

Founder of the Branding + Design company. Starting up branding services for the Austin area. Working with agencies and corporate clients.

Austin, Texas, United States

Oversee the creation and implementation process of design and art pieces for the company. Evaluate Schwab’s goals and expectations, then create and direct teams as needed to create visually appealing pieces that tell the story of Schwab’s brand. Pitching and implementing design ideas to our internal clients. Oversee a team of graphic designers and other.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Inspired and coached Art Directors, Writers and Designers and their teams toward creating breakthrough brand experiences for clients. Played a strong leadership role in business development, senior client relationships, and agency management relationships. The team consisted of 15 plus creative professionals.Managed and lead Creative Teams to improve their.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Art Director. Supported Creative Director in executing creative strategies fora host of clients.Consulted with creative and account team members to ensure projects were executed at the highest level, in a timely matter and met objectives.Formulated concepts, executed designs, and presented creative for Web, Print, Collateral and other mediums as.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Associate Creative Director. Worked with ACD copy partner to mentor and manage a full creative team of 10+ people, included designers, writers, content mangers, art directors and production artists.Guided them to generate a wide range of concepts, high-level copy writing and content strategy, providing evaluation, mentorship, counsel and determination of.

Portland, Oregon Area

Associate Creative Director. Worked closely alongside Creative Director to guide the creative development and execution across channel marketing and above the line branding work, tirelessly for our base of clients.Responsible for developing in meetings with agency staff a creative brief articulating the key elements of the creative direction and.

Greater Seattle Area

Senior Art Director. Generated ideas and concepts in large team setting. Produced sketches, storyboards, roughs to visualize ideas.Understood marketing initiatives, strategic positioning and target audience. Cooperated with the rest of the creative team across different types of media. Took work from concept to final execution within tight.

San Francisco Bay Area

Art Director. Presented pitch work to new clients and won key pieces of businessincluding being the first agency of record for Yahoo! and WIRED Magazine.Prolific in producing work for these early clients helping to cement the agency as an all-star creative powerhouse winning a number of international awards.

New York City Area

Art Director. Worked on creative concepts for the agency roster at the time that included branding work primarily for Sun Microsystems, Diet Coke, Eddie Bauer and Charles Schwab Corporation.Worked with Creative Directors who taught us the ropes in branding and advertising a mere generation removed from the people who formed it directly during the creative.