Ryan Anthony Davis Email & Phone Number

Lafayette, Colorado, United States

As a tenacious and heart-led leader, I lead over 40 creatives to support the entire company on all creative fronts; art, copy, video, audio, web development, and creative operations. Utilizing my deep experience in advertising, production, art & copy, UX/UI, and branding, I helped Sounds True evolve into a more trusted and premium brand, helping them to create and launch an entire re-branding project, new website, new app, premium content, and a documentary film. I also created strong growth paths and opportunities for the creatives to help them fine-tune their skills, learn new ways of working, and feel inspired to make greater work.Notable Highlights:• Led an entire re-brand and built an extensive brand book for the company that unified our look and feel and built more trust as a brand• Collaborated on Product Design with the Tech & Development team and stakeholders to lead the UX/UI design, UX Writing, and branding for our new app offering, including Live Shows, Originals, Community, a Digital Library, and a full-feature AI resulting in increased revenue and subscribers.• Partnered and Led content creation for our new Original programming and full-feature documentary, winning multiple awards and accolades, to increase visibility and conversions to our new platform.• Reduced budget spending, increased profit margins, and increased quality by strategizing, planning, and launching our own internal production company called Sounds True Studios.• Created and managed a multi-million dollar yearly creative budget, reducing budget spend year-over-year while implementing more efficient cost-saving processes and more accurate effort estimations.• Created and managed a multi-million dollar yearly creative budget, reducing budget spend year-over-year while implementing more efficient cost-saving processes and more accurate effort estimations.• Restructured the team to play to people's strengths, cross-pollinate skills, and create a healthier and happier team.

Louisville, Colorado, United States

Originally coming in to run the Art, Copy, and Web Development teams, my role quickly expanded into including our A/V Team, proofing, and other creative needs. My main goal when I initially started as a CD at Sounds True was to find the gaps in the brand, where we could work hard to evolve it, find efficiencies where people were getting stuck, improve processes that added ease in the effort, and get rid of anything that wasn't serving the team or the work. Once I created a strong base and added some relief to the team, I tackled growth paths for all team members and found ways to inspire and improve the overall quality of the work.Notable Highlights:• Working on the Executive Leadership Team, created products, brand creative, marketing, and structure that contributed to Sounds True's most profitable year in over 35 years.• Reduced labor costs and increased throughput by restructuring a team of 20 creatives into their "genius zones" and transitioning any talent with performance issues.• Helped achieve our highest-grossing seasonal sales by utilizing research and leading the design of our new website (built on Shopify) and implementing new cross-selling features.• Expanded the capabilities of the Print Design Team to increase the throughput of book creation by 40% while keeping cost ratios down and improving ROI.• Piloted and implemented a new KV and template approach to building marketing campaigns to reduce time spent and allow the marketing team to pivot as needed to increase sales.• Created and implemented new systems for book cover design, author design intake, and templating to make our books more profitable.• Collaborated cross-departmentally to rapidly turn all processes into a remote workflow to continue work moving through the system during the pandemic, while implementing new remote working events to grow our creative team culture and resilience through the pandemic.

Lakewood, Colorado

As a Creative Director in advertising, you take it all on. I led a team of 15 rabid creatives toward the best possible work for Starbucks & KeVita. I managed the creative for multi-million dollar campaigns for Starbucks's retail and social divisions. And complete advertising campaigns for the rapidly growing brand KeVita. As they say, "No Pressure. No Diamond." Before all of that Starbucks work, I led a team that created all of the advertising work (commercials, OOH, in-store, print, social, etc.) for KeVita, while simultaneously running creative projects and presentations for Breckenridge Brewery and Jägermeister.Notable Highlights:• Achieved greatness by leading development, pre-production, and post-production for the international Starbucks x Nespresso launch creating an output of multiple commercials, unskippable ads for YouTube, and over 100 pieces of social content.• Fiercely led the UX team, designers, and copywriters to create the UI/UX, copy, and design of a fully functional online store for the Starbucks Retail division.• Increased visibility and campaign ROI through disruptive advertising by leading multiple commercial shoots, countless photo and social shoots, print campaigns, OOH, and retail displays for Starbucks.• Lit a fire for social growth and led all advertising for KeVita (commercials, social, print, etc.).• Creative led multiple pitches and won business to help grow the portfolio of Integer and subsequently lead those businesses creatively for various campaigns and initiatives.

Lakewood, Co

Let's be honest, middle management is hard. And middle management in advertising is brutal. My time as an ACD grew my resilience to new heights, my ability to inspire a team by leaps and bounds, and my charisma and energy in presenting to the max. It was this "time in the oven" that baked me into the strong leader I am today.Notable Highlights:• Partnered with Bully! to create a "digital toy" on Kellogg's boxes for the Captain America 3 release, utilizing 3D goggles and featuring Marvel Characters.• Partnered with MoonBot Studios to create an interactive storybook app with Disney Characters and games.• Worked with various partners to create campaigns for Kellogg's including Marvel, Disney, Pixar, MLB, and many more.• With a worldwide employee pool of nearly 1800, I was nominated by senior leaders and accepted into Integer's Leadership Academy and spent over a year in leadership training courses, reading countless books and growing my knowledge of leadership 10fold.• Supported CDs and helped to lead the team and high-quality work for Kelloggs, Starbucks, and Seattle's Best Coffee.• Collaborated and worked on 20+ pitches over my stint in advertising, winning multiple pieces of business and helping to grow Integers portfolio.

Lakewood, Colorado, United States

As a Senior Experience Designer, I was tasked to create innovations for Pokémon and Integer simultaneously. Helping Pokémon make a splash with their X&Y launch and jump back into the limelight. And creating dynamic innovations for Integer to sell to various clients we already had, expand our business with existing clients, and win awards for industry recognition and new business pitch leads.Notable Highlights:• Designed the UX/UI for the digital campaign for Pokémon's X&Y launch.• Presented a very early concept for a mobile game collecting Pokémon on real-world maps, which later became Pokémon Go.• Partnered with Bully! to create a prototype to bring Pokémon cards to life and help kids learn how to play the game at an early age.• Concepted and created an interactive display for MillerCoors's craft division utilizing a time-of-flight camera, a TV, and slick UX/UI.

Lakewood, Colorado, United States

Was officially the first "Digital Art Director" hired by Integer. Nowadays, they're just called Art Directors because Digital is so integrated into everything we do. (Hello AI!) As an Art Director, I utilized my strong design fundamentals and web development knowledge to crush out work with a smile on my face, working on brands like P&G and MillerCoors.Notable Highlights:• Designed and led web development for Blue Moon's complete website overhaul including their first-ever mobile optimized website launch.• Designed and collaborated with Amazon and P&G to expand their product pages to create more product information down their product pages, learning best eComm & CPG practices along the way.• Sent to our sister agencies office, TBWA Amsterdam, and Chiat\Day in LA, to take part in SWATs to win the Adidas business for the 2014 World Cup.

Westminster, Colorado, United States

Utilizing my web design skills from my previous job I helped to design, code, and debug websites, emails, and marketing funnels for Dalbey Education. Helping to automate php variables I simplified marketing tactics and added dynamic areas of our marketing funnels.Notable Highlights:• Worked on the Marketing Team and helped increase conversion rate and click-through by implementing dynamic variables and improved designs.• Designed a 6 part workbook series, creating over 250 pages of printed educational content.• Learned and implemented various successful direct-response marketing campaigns• Coded like it was 1997 to improve the readability and structure of all of our emails across multiple ESPs.

Norman, Oklahoma, United States

Completing a full internship with the Oklahoma Climate Service (OCS), a division at the National Weather Center, they hired me full-time under a brilliant web designer and coder. While I learned the fundamentals of graphic design in college, there I learned web design and development soup to nuts. When I left OCS, I was able to wireframe, design, code, and debug websites.Notable Highlights:• Learned HTML, CSS PHP, JavaScript & JQuery, and MySQL.• Designed and released fully designed monthly magazines for OCS.• Built 10+ websites over my time there while helping to maintain and update a majority of them.• Helped to design initial UX/UI for OCS's full-feature radar app, RadarScope.• Created trade show collateral as needed.