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Creative Director
MXenergy
10/2007 to Present

 


 

Managing creative direction, conceptualization, and design development for this national natural gas and electricity provider. Performing internal brand audit and rebranding marketing materials to grow customer base. Designing new website, intranet, and library of collateral sales pieces. Overseeing Art Director and Copywriter on daily projects in this fast-paced environment.

 

 

Creative Director
Connect-2 Communications 11/2003 to 9/2007


Conceptualized and designed multi-media promotions, websites, videos, online advertising, eCRM e-mail campaigns, print collateral, advertising, corporate identity and promotional materials. Served as lead contact and maintained excellent relationships with clients. Collaborated for strategic development. Provided leadership to team of Graphic Designers and Copywriters.

 

 

Art Director, Freelance
MAXIMUMernst.com
11/2002 to Present

Creating award-winning, diverse work for local companies and clients, from print to web.

 


Senior Art Director
Ryan Interactive
Ryan Partnership
2/2001 to 11/2002

 


Conceptualized and developed websites, promotional games, online advertising and eCRM e-mail campaigns for high profile clients such as AT&T, M&M, Gevalia Coffee, Pedigree, and Whiskas. Played key role in strategy development. Supervised Graphic Designers and led hiring of freelance work.


Lead Designer
e-Media
8/00 to 2/2001


Designed & developed interactive projects for this group specializing in streaming media web solutions. Supervised Graphic Designers & Web Developers.


Senior Art Director
Brann Blau, Blau Marketing Technology, 2/99 to 3/00

 


Conceptualized direct marketing and advertising including print, mail, e-mail, web site & rich media banners. Led strategy development and served as primary contact with clients. Supervised Graphic Designers and studio production team.
Served as lead Art Director on the IBM Small Business team.


Graphic Designer
Visual Intelligence Agency
2/98 to 3/99 -6/95 to 1/97

 


Designed and developed web sites, brochures, advertising, video titling/production, multi-media & interactive CD-Rom. Produced a wide variety of print & artist promotional pieces.




E d u c a t i o n


Bachelor of Fine Arts
Purchase College
State University of New York


Areas of Concentration: Graphic Design & Photography.
Intensive Study of Art History, Specializing in Modern Art.
Visual Arts Scholarship Recipient.



S k i l l s















13+ years agency/marketing experience
5+ years team/project leadership/management
Strong creative concept, design, typography
and production skills
Print, interactive and broadcast media
strategic and creative execution knowledge
Experience with product and company branding
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Able to translate marketing objectives into
effective creative strategies
Mac OS as well as Windows literate
Photography art direction experience
Video art direction experience

 




S o f t w a r e K n o w l e d g e


Proficient in:


Very capable in:


Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign,
Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Acrobat, QuarkXPress

Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Apple iLife, Propellerhead Reason, Final Cut Express, Apple Quicktime, Fetch, Roxio Toast, MOTU Digital Performer