Better hiring by design. Podcast host. Whiteboard champion.

BMI singer/songwriter, live performer, owner of Earhopper Publishing.

Managed recruiting teams for Tech and Non-Tech: Product Design, Production Design, Marketing Creative, Growth Creative. PM'd executive hiring for design and creative teams. Worked directly with the CEO, Founder, VP of Design, VP of Product, Creative Director, and Directors of Recruiting and HR. 1st dedicated recruiter for design & creative.

Led the full stack of creative hiring & employment brand initiatives from 6 designers to 10x: product, brand, writing, research, and UIE designers. Iterating interview and feedback processes. Partnered with Founders, Creative Director, & Head of Product Design. Incepted and drove the Pinnebago (SF/LA/Marfa/Austin SXSW). Liaison to local and national design communities. Brand initiatives included speaking engagements with General Assembly, hosting AIGA events, paneling with A16z, facilitating Creative Mornings, partnering with Designer Fund, and others.

First dedicated Product & Communication Design recruiter. Partnered with Director of Design to scale teams from 15 total designers to 200ish, pre + post IPO. Build design recruiting team from one to 10. Facilitated management interview process tracts for design and design management. Incepted & implemented hiring brand. Facilitated external events. Created partnerships with a16z, General Assembly, AGIA. Ate way, way too much extra crispy bacon.

Hired all the creative people for a little while. 'The agency has been named Agency of the Year twelve times in the trade press, as well as twice being named Interactive Agency of the Year at Cannes. The agency was awarded Agency of the Decade (2000-2010) by Advertising Age.'

Founded NYC office of RPO staffing agency based in Chicago. Grew the company by myself from my Brooklyn dining room to 8 full-time east coast employees with an office in the Union Square area. Specialized in all marketing & advertising roles with an emphasis on creative. Clients included TribalDDB, Publicis Modem, Visual Goodness, NYSC, Kenneth Cole, Agency.com, OgilvyOne, Deutsch, Digitas, Beyond Interaction, Munn Rabot, Merkley & Partners, VML, DraftFCB, JWT.

First Creative Director for women's-product focused public relations firm: clients included P&G, GlaxoSmithKline, CoverGirl, MaxFactor

Responsible for instore and outdoor signage, photo retouching, catalog/mail design, web optimization, custom print packaging, HTML, email blasts, web implementation. Amassed an amazing shoe collection.

30 Peak (Audio Work)BMG Music (Designer)Munn Rabôt (Designer)Zagat Survey (Creative Director)Harrison & Star (Designer: Bayer)Global Hue (Design: Verizon Wireless)Digitas (Audio Engineering: American Express) Merkley & Partners (Retouching: Arby's/Mercedes Benz)

Clients included American Express, The New York Times, AOL, Pfizer, AT&T

Responsible for all layout and design, ad liason, management of staff of 4

Lead music writer for local and national artists.

Designed layouts for brochures, external ads, internal publications, and things for the PR department & avoided that weird person in accounting.

Responsible for complete design, content, photo retouching, and layout of 12 pages of weekly alternative paper, managed staff of 6