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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Direct creative visuals, marketing, and graphic voice for print and online content at the leading lifestyle and entertainment magazine in New Orleans, LA, including newsletters and web-related content. Responsible for ensuring timelines within production workflow, including file management, naming conventions, and interdepartmental communications. Work closely with a team of freelance writers, designers, photographers, printers, and assorted vendors, as well as coordinating the internship program.

Manage full service, state-of-the-art graphics studio offering graphic design and illustration. Responsible for recruiting and conferring with clients; creating and presenting unique solutions, appropriate for client’s message and markets across channels, including branding, advertising, integrated campaigns, and packaging. Also offer press approval services. clients include: TV Guide, VisitPortland, Geiger, DC Comics, MaineReads

94 Commercial Street, Suite 300, Portland, Maine 04101

Create visual designs for all aspects of high-profile Destination Marketing Organization including material promoting annual international culinary festival, Harvest on the Harbor, as well membership marketing collateral for print and digital marketing, including website, social media, newsletters, and eblasts. Communicate brand message through promotions, speaking engagements, press releases, TV and radio interviews. Write editorial and promotional material for cuisine, entertainment, tourism, and travel. Responsible for managing the internship program, including interviewing candidates and supervising intern work.

165 State Street, Portland, Me

Responsible for creating the visual identity of Portland’s premiere monthly publication by establishing layout redesign, securing compelling images, and creating striking covers. Circulation doubled during tenure. Premium placement on JetBlue, Amtrak Downeaster, visitor locations, television advertising. Capturing 40 national design awards during consecutive years of tenure. Establish quality protocols, including naming conventions, digital libraries, and graphic server with backup. Communicate message through TV appearances, speaking presentations, and press releases. Expand brand through cross-channel new media markets, including web site and social networking initiatives. Also write and develop cross-channel marketing and advertising promotions.

Portland City Hall, Portland, Maine

President 10/08 - 10/09Secretary 10/07 - 10/08Staffed by the Economic Development Division, the PDC provides a continuum of financial assistance to business and industry throughout the city and works to institute economic development programs in Portland, with particular emphasis on the Downtown area, to insure compliance to City’s goals, objectives and requirements. PDC’s loan programs have provide more than 100 Portland businesses with over $5.5 million in financial assistance. Add in the Tax Increment Financing incentive program, and the PDC has stimulated over $121 million in new investment and created or retained more than 5,300 jobs for Portland. In the loan portfolio, every one dollar of City funds invested leveraged nearly $9.50 in private capital.

70 Mount Hope Ave. Lewiston, Me 04240

Establish creative identity across channels while managing fast-paces graphics department for international direct marketing catalogue company. Responsible for art directing, designing, and illustrating nationally distributed catalogues, including covers and collateral advertising; supervised the production of time-sensitive customer art; and cultivated creative, reliable team environments to work collaboratively on departmental, divisional, and corporate levels. Developed policies, tracking methods, and metrics to establish quality control, requiring implementation of art department servers, backup storage, naming conventions, and digital libraries to increase efficient operation. Also responsible for projecting and maintaining budgets; evaluating printers, photographers, and vendors; copy editing; selecting models; supervising photoshoots; and approving catalogues on press.

New York, Ny

Create illustrations for feature articles. Assist in the production of five magazine titles, including TV Guide, the Cable Guide, and Celebrity Dish.

37-18 Northern Boulevard, New York, N.Y. 11101-1616

Conceptualized designs and executed illustrations for regional and national marketing campaigns in busy team-oriented internal advertising department. Consulted with internal and external clients to ensure creative direction while maintaining brand integrity. Projects included advertisements, POP material, catalogues, packaging, collateral marketing, trade show displays, and corporate identities for internationally recognized brands.

350 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10018

Created designs for nationally distributed licensed clothing lines for all sports, leagues, and colleges.

Meridian Street, Boston, Ma

Supervised staff while coordinating creation and production of art for licensed professional sports teams, including Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins.

141 Longwater Dr, Norwell, Ma 02061

Created corporate logos for various companies nationwide along with corporate marketing material.