I am an Emmy-Winning Creative Director with extensive experience leading and developing creative teams and a proven record of success branding and marketing television and film through creative.Given my career in television marketing, it’s appropriate that my first real memory of wanting to be involved in TV and film involved a movie trailer. After film school, I worked in local broadcast marketing, where I used my film education to elevate the standard of TV promos in the markets where I worked. I’ve spent most of my career at CNN, where I led creative teams during a time that saw the network evolve into a more diversified media company with a dominating digital presence a significant place in the national political conversation and high-quality Original Series and Films. Our team at CNN was named Promax Global Marketing Team of the Year seven times in the last nine years.Accomplishments• Launched the CNN Films and CNN Original Series brands with programs and films including Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, The Decades, United Shades of America, Blackfish and others.• Awarded two 2x Emmys and 7x Promax Global Marketing Team of the Year Awards.• Premiered and maintained core long-running CNN programs The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Erin Burnett OutFront, Fareed Zakaria GPS, The Lead with Jake Tapper, and State of the Union.• Managed award-winning internal creative and external vendor teams.• Built efficient systems to quickly create high level marketing materials on breaking news timelines.• Created brand packages and campaigns that became a part of the national conversation.• Navigated the marketing of sensitive high-profile political issues and content.