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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

Live performances and/or studio recording for; Buddy Rich Big Band, John Mellencamp, Louie Bellson, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, David Sanborn, Philip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire, Boyz 2 Men, Sting, Andy Summers, Phil Woods, Miami Sound Machine, Robert Fripp of King Crimson and many more. Hundreds of recording sessions (union & non union), across multiple genres, from album projects to commercial work for Agency clients such as GM, McDonalds, United Airlines, Gatorade, and Taco Bell. Member of production teams that received multiple Grammy awards / nominations. Sponsored endorser and clinician for Latin Percussion, Frank Giorgini UDU Drums and Peter Engelhart Percussion (ranging 1989-1997).

Minneapolis Mn, Chicago Il & Louisville Ky

Specialty restoration and consulting for rare, high-value vehicles. Created this side business from the ground up while continuing to consult as a Creative Director. Founded with $500 investment and grew to a globally recognized niche-brand with a global customer base of owners, collectors and museums in over a dozen countries worldwide. Author of hardback, large format technical book, "Vincentology" going to press in 2025.

Minneapolis Mn

Target, General Mills, The New York Philharmonic, Organic Valley, Fallon, University of Minnesota, Breck and others. Led internal and external teams in the development and execution of award winning strategy and design for interactive projects within the company's client portfolio. Position was to fill the vacancy of the Founder as the Creative Director. PFI was eventually dissolved several years after my contract.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Special multimedia project with Gordon Parks, featuring Spike Lee.

Co-authored Creative direction, experience design and related data gathering strategies for the US Marine Corps' interactive properties. Also, engineered a set of standards and recommendations for the reorganization of their recruitment programs online. After the redesign of Marines.com, traffic to the Web site saw a dramatic increase to more than 2.1 million unique visitors, a growth of more than 175% over the previous year. More telling to the site’s effectiveness, visitors spent more time on Marines.com exploring its many different elements. The average visitor spent over 20 minutes engaged on the site, an increase of more than 570% from the previous site.

Creative & Art Direction on the launch of the Ford GT project as well as other vehicle platforms and corporate marketing materials.

Creative & Art Direction for online catalogs, print collateral and and broadcast media.

Minneapolis Mn & Saint Paul Mn

Contracted thru a MN based promotional firm. Development of strategic experiential marketing program to be used in a large scale product launch for Coca-Cola Zero. Conceptualization and creation of mobile promotion, learning and activity centers based in modular 53’ tractor trailer configurations. Creation and production of graphic design, sound design and video used within learning centers as well as marketing and promotional materials.

Chicago Il

Served as both company Creative Director & Practice Area Director for the Experience Design Group, simultaneously, in order to establish and lead a new division of this consulting firm, prior to their initial public offering. I authored the entire methodology for the practice areas and recruited and built a diverse team of designers, writers, programmers and information architects from no staff to over 20 direct reports across multiple US and international offices. Simultaneously, developinging strategic and creative pitch-work that won the business of a blue-chip client roster including: Bebe, TeleCheck, Price Waterhouse, FOXKids, SONY Computer Entertainment (PlayStation2), and several others. Additionally, I worked directly with the COO of Sony North America on 3-year strategic global brand strategy and created it's presentation for the Board of Sony Japan, where it was formally adopted.

Chicago Il

Clients included Motorola, Gatorade, Cannondale Bicycles, AIGA, Dean Foods, YMCA, McDonald's, Absolut Vodka, Paragon Books and many others. Co-founded this website & database solutions firm and helped lead it into a successful company, doubling in size while maintaining 0% debt and 100% employee ownership. Executed sale of shares in late 1999.

Chicago Il

Initially served as Art Director on accounts for Motorola, Kraft, Fannie May, and others. Later founded the interactive division of this company which later exited, becoming Thirdwave, LLC.

Chicago Il

Preparation and output of color film transparencies and proofs. Operated Mac systems in conjunction with SHIMA-SEKI, and Silicon Graphics systems to produce LightJet & Fire1000 outputs, Lino outputs, Solitaire Slides, Cromalins, and color lasers. This included high-resolution image manipulation, complex photo retouching and color corrections, drum scanning, and film development. Majority of work was performed for McDonald's worldwide in store menu displays and store graphics, and Marlboro brands extensive international outdoor campaigns.

Niles Il

Preparation and output of color films and proofs utilizing Mac based systems in conjunction with the Scitex PS/2, Dolev 400, Iris 2400, and Kodak Signature System. This included extensive image manipulation, photo retouching, typesetting, drum scanning, color corrections, platemaking and traditional stripping.