Resume

Experience

2013 – Present Value Line, New York; Senior Designer. In-house art director/creative director, working on all private investor marketing and collateral for the investment research firm. Primarily email marketing, on-line and social media and direct marketing. As well as managing a small marketing team; freelancers, printers and other vendors.

2012 – 2013 Freelance Art Director/Designer, New York; For a variety of clients including LLNS (Healthcare agency for BBDO); Solstice Health Communications (pitched and won professional and DTP duties for Ipsen brand Dysport) and OppenheimerFunds (major rebranding effort).

2010 – 2012 Torre Lazur McCann, Parsippany; Group Art Supervisor. Produced work for Stiefel/GSK (SRD) and ViiV/GSK (HIV), including launching Sorilux (Stiefel) and re-branding Epzicom and Selzentry (ViiV), including complete re-designs of the brand websites, banner ads, emails and creating e-details for iPad.

2008 – 2010 Towers Watson, Washington, DC; Art Director/Contractor. Worked with the in-house Creative Director to manage projects and produce a variety of collateral as well as assisting with
a major re-branding effort (from Watson Wyatt to Towers Watson).

2005 – 2008 GSW Worldwide, Columbus; Senior Art Director/Associate Creative Director. Produced traditional as well as digital work in oncology (Eli Lilly), HIV (Roche) and CNS (Ortho-McNeil and Eli Lilly).

2004 – 2005 Motus, Columbus; Creative Director/Partner. I thought it might be fun to start my own agency. I realized I have a weird concept of what’s “fun”. But I did wear a lot of hats and gained an appreciation for all that goes into running a business.

2000 – 2004 Ten United, Columbus; Sr. Art Director. I was the lead art director on a couple of accounts here, and really developed my presentation skills and salesmanship. It’s here that
I learned that great agencies don’t work for a client but with a client. I also cut my teeth managing, mentoring and being a nursemaid to junior creatives. And what do you know; I really enjoyed it.

1995 – 2000 Gray, Kirk/VanSant, Baltimore; Art Director. Created print advertising, collateral, direct mail and some TV for a variety of clients. I began to understand that an affective ad is more than a well-designed layout, it’s an idea; and every decision must be based on furthering that idea. I also developed a keen interest in research and strategy, because, really, this is where the idea begins to take shape.

Education

University of Maryland, Bachelor of Arts degree in graphic design.