Creative Director
CurrentProvide creative direction to help shape concepts and creative executions for websites, advertising campaigns, branding initiatives, product promotion, and trade show experiences.Collaborate with creative teams in video production, development of brochures and catalogs, website development, digital media, event booth design, and production.Co-lead ideation sessions to formulate target audience, voice, strategy, creative approach, and key touchpoints to best serve the client’s goals in gaining market share. Project manage marketing initiatives for stakeholder clients by organizing phases of creative development, tracking hours, proposing review times, and coordinating end-of-project delivery of assets to the client.Set expectations of the scope of a project concerning budget, timing, and scale of consumer touchpoints for each project.Provide hands-on design, art direction, photography, illustration, video animation/editing, sound design, and production for client work and internal agency branding and communications.Brand manager for Gate’s company communications ranging from internal forms to external digital media including website, social media posts, case studies, pitch decks, capabilities brochures, and promotions.Manage and coordinate third-party vendors (designers, writers, editors) for web development, video production, and digital/print advertising.Conduct employee reviews, hirings, and terminationsBrand Experience: Frisco's Chicken, Pleasantview Communities, PennStone, Gibraltar's Grill, Hershey Foods, Gentex Corp, Ops-Core, PureFlo, Gentex Air, 8th Avenue Food & Provisioning Company, Presto, Better Provisioning Company, 4&20 Apparel, The Devil's Lettuce, Harley-Davidson Roadhouse Customs, Eddy Foods, Mama Rosa's Pizza, Inventifi, Delivana, Playworld, Miracle, Fight'n Tomato Pizza Company, Scout Hat, Gunzey's Quality Meats, Our Old Italian Brand, Flake Out Friday, EZ Dock, GATE