Ryan O'Connor Email & Phone Number

Virginia, United States

Manage, mentor, and coach.+Creative leadership and integrated marketing ideation+Inspire creative culture, innovation, and agency-wide collaboration+An active participant within the executive leadership team and agency-wide initiatives+ Portfolio leadership and new business development, generating growth+Spearheaded the integration of cutting-edge technologies, leading an A.I. task force and researchteam.+Forged strategic partnerships with tech/digital companies, staying ahead of industry trends.+Led creative efforts on significant projects for prominent clients, including Nike, Meta and GEICO.Leading Nike:-Built a unique brand for this training from the ground up. Including environmental design,fabrication consulting, motion graphics, graphic VIS, and digital integration. - Client facing role.-Curated a custom experience developed exclusively for the Nike brand and their 400+ VP-level talent.-Designed custom trading cards for each VP, resulting in a unique group connection.Meta Suite @ Capital One Arena:-Developed and showcased the Meta brand in a functional and on-brand stadium suite for-40+ games/events.-Design showcasing VR tech for the emerging metaverse.-Participated in concept, client interaction, design, and construction.-Expanse Video Game Release- A Telltale Series:-Launched an immersive game (The Expanse by Telltale) in LA with 1.2M videos viewed, 13k-Engagement Rate, and 417 Event articles. -Transformed an empty warehouse into an interactive journey with special effects andauthentic memorabilia.Zevia Mobile Sampling Tour: -Design and concept for a mobile cart solution. Client facing, creative lead.-Activated a 4-market sampling program over 160 days, distributing 194k samples.-Crafted a targeted social media and search engine marketing campaign, resulting in 4.1M+impressions.

Shorewood, Wisconsin, United States

Member of the Shorewood Design Review Board. Meet twice per month to review local design projects to approve exterior changes/renovations to homes and businesses. Includes signage, windows, doors, new construction and landscaping.

United States

Creative ideation and strategy for existing clients & new business opportunities• Creative development; online, offline physical, and digital• Deliver multifaceted, sensorial experiences, inclusive of content, promotions, and partnerships• Managed creative direction and development for a variety of marketing projects,emphasizing branding, 3D design, fabrication, storytelling, and graphic design.• Oversaw creative designs for on-site and digital experiences, as well as event-based programs.• Executed brand vision and message through creative direction, collaborating closely with copywriting, digital, and fabrication teams.• Served as the Creative Lead for the Faraday Future flagship L.A. Store and digital experience.

Led the creation and delivery of design solutions to support experiential marketing campaigns, events, and permanent B2C brand engagements, brand strategy, creative ideation, and direction • Physical builds, environments, mobile tour, hospitality, web, digital and social• Developed brand positioning, identity platforms, and integrated strategies• Agency Leadership: new business and existing client growth• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative and forward-thinking creative concepts.• Served as the Creative Lead for U.S. Bank across all creative projects, spanning physical and mobile activations, video, Visual ID, Event/Hospitality, and Virtual Awards.• Led the full brand roll-out for an emerging product in the U.S. (client name confidential), overseeing experiential designs across various scales and materials.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Managed internal creative resources • Directed creative strategies and visual identities for a family of brands • Developed 3D modeling processes and best practices• Worked to create a production ready document to connect designers, producers and vendors• Defined technical resources, hardware, software, and asset management

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

160 S. 2Nd Street, Milwaukee, Wi

http://www.designfugitives.comCo-founder of a boutique art, design and fabrication studio based in downtown MIlwaukee.● Launched the company by leading branding, website design, client meetings, overall business direction and staff payroll,seeing initial growth from start up with no revenue to annual revenues of $500,000 in 2015.● Co-designed and managed fabrication of major interior sculpture projects still on display .

Designed several small scale residential projects with Joel Agacki | In charge of renderings &assisted in construction documents, models, schematic design.

HonorsSummer 2009 | Selection "top 16", "Imagining Recovery" International Design Competition-Columbia C-Lab with Studio X: called upon designers of all types to imagine the futures these objective maps, charts, graphics and accounting figures served to anticipate, and to interpret for the public the lived experience of this future by producing an image of recovery

Studio teaching:‐Spring 2010 | Marcus Prize Studio 3, “Forecasting Milwaukee for the Urban Age”. Co‐taught studio with Marcus Prize winner Alejandro Aravena (Chile) with Elemental. Selected 14 graduate students, coordinated final review and study abroad to Chile.‐Fall 2009, 2010 | “Transient Studio: On Temporality, Movement and Scale” Led design studio for 14 Graduate/Undergraduate students.The studio investigated the idea of change through the themes of Temporality, Scale andMovement. These became generators of innovative and novel solutions to design problems at specific place and through a changing time-frame. The studio positioned these investigations around a specific Milwaukee institution and locale, Summerfest, due to its dynamic nature and large changes that take place over the course of a year.‐Fall 2008/Spring 2009 | Co‐Taught 1st year Graduate Studio (1 studio per semester): performed lectures, desk crits, group discussion, grading‐ Spring 2008 | Led one section (15 students) undergraduate 3rd year design studio “High school for Film”: performed lectures, group discussion, desk crits, grading.Lectures: (all conducted at UW‐Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning)‐Spring 2009 | “Learning, Designing, Making” : A lecture about being critical and design iteration as method for learning. Also it lays out thoughts on design process and making as a way of study.‐Fall 2008 | “Introduction to Scripting” : A lecture about my experiences/observations with scripting and its future, repercussions, and ways of using it as a tool. Based off RhinoScript.‐Fall 2008 | “Presentation Techniques” : A small lecture about visual/communication techniques presentations with critics, for 2nd yr students.‐Spring 2007 | “(a) Design Process & Way of Seeing” : A lecture for 1st year students about thinking critically about how they design, how to make decisions and to observe the world around them with a critical eye.

- Renovation of 100,000 s.f. warehouse into Retail/ Offices | Assisted with SD, DD, Construction Documents

-Residential additions | Including all aspects of design and documentation, Project management-Barrington Drive-Up Bank | Assisted project manager, produced sections, wall sections, details, various C.D.'s.-Facade Inspection, Chicago Buildings over 185' | Produced Reports with photo documentation for the City of Chicago

Assisted with schematic design. Trump Tower, Chicago.

Master, Architecture

Henry Adams Medal: Each year The American Institute of Architects awards an engraved medal and certificate of merit to the top-ranking.

B.S., Architecture

Summa cum Laude Dean's Honors

Certificate, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning