• Creative Lead: branding + design solutions for award-winning agency.• Creative ideation, execution and production of digital experiences, including websites, social campaigns and all tactical assets for projects / accounts. • Integral leadership role to a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. • Interactive with and client-facing for major global brands. • Engagement with CMS systems and workflow tools.Brand Experience: AAA, Honda, Acura, 7-Eleven, Navy Federal Credit Union, HCA Healthcare, Cognosante, Liberty Hardware, more.

• Design lead on brand initiatives, marketing campaigns and web site improvements. • Creative direction includes aligning on special projects with collaborative partnerships.• Custom design and artwork for packaging, labels and marketing materials.Brand Experience: Pure Blue Japan, Studio D’Artisan, Momotaro, Big John, Chup Socks

• Set tone for brand while supporting an active mix of creative individuals on the platform. • Created content and design standards for brand cohesion online + print materials.• C-Suite and Client facing role in telling the brand story.• Defined need for Curation: each image uploaded is a part of an individual's story, representing their hard work, talent and dreams.• Established a Community to support the many Storytellers / Artists.  • Workshop and Focus Group facilitation with buyers, product tests and artist interactions.• Established a system with the ability to quickly and systematically review a significant amount of work with an acute and objective eye. • Role had four direct reports plus one intern–dedicated to discovering and promoting new works, implementing techniques to help Artists find more exposure as well as achieve greater profitability. Brand Experience: Uber, The Other Art Fair, Warby Parker, Bombay Sapphire

Creative Direction and Concept for print and web materials for advertising, marketing, social.• Duties include creative design lead on visual materials.• Curation of art activations, murals and experiences.• Creative direction for four-person creative team and freelance design teams. Brand Experience: Long Beach Museum of Art, Disney, Coheed and Cambria, TVC, Planet Illogica, Juxtapoz, Hi Fructose

• Responsible for small in-house team producing creative / design direction, custom illustration, layout and copywriting. • Included managing client relations, lead interface with sales and marketing director, web creatives, print clients.• Organizing and curating pop-up art exhibitions and music events. Brand Experience: Universal, Warner/Elektra/Atlantic, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy, Esquire Russia, GeoTherm Power Inc.

• Responsible for superior conceptualizing, designing and executing breakthrough creative.• Support client strategies in a deadline-oriented video game manufacturing environment. • Designed and produced packaging, advertising, logos and print collateral for PR and Sales departments. • Production of final art files including color correction, trapping, font management, output and printing while managing heavy workload with numerous projects and timelines. • Creative input combined with the ability to follow technical guidelines and templates in multiple programs and configurations.Titles (shipped): TransWorld SURF, Moto Racer 3, Unreal Tournament

• Art Director of a large furniture manufacturer's in-house advertising department. • Supervised and coordinated a four person staff completing tasks for print, web, intranet, radio, photo shoots, event collateral, etc. • Oversaw all creative and design decisions and personally executed multiple creative solutions.Brand Experience: Texas Rangers, The Marilyn Monroe Estate

• Duties included art direction, design and production of 8 award winning A-sized and Tabloid Magazines. • Art Director of Environmental Protection Magazine (A-sized-monthly circulation of 103,000); HHP Magazine (Tabloid) and Continuing Care Magazine (A sized-monthly circulation of 43,000). • Supervised and helped execute all promotional items, media kits, wraps, tips and card deck design. • Direct cover and editorial illustrators, layout designers, align with editorial writers and copy editors.• This is detailed, time sensitive work, operating with a multi-million dollar overall budget, prepress service, production and editorial staff.Titles: Environmental Protection, Home Healthcare Products, Continuing Care Magazine