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Creative Director
Jan 2009 - Present (15 years 11 months)
Very focused relationships with highly entrepreneurial clients seeking to get their products seen by nationwide audiences and, see significant ROI. Full 360 creative services and brand management were provided.
+ Developing new brands and updating older brands for clients. Competitive and positioning research. Identity design.
+ Original packaging designs and concepts for foods, beverages, toys, cosmeceuticals, apparel along with needed packaging engineering. I also provided final press-ready files and coordinated with printers and bottling companies to assure best outcomes.
+ Mobile app GUIs and program architecture.
+ Website development. Most recent clients requesting sites built on a WordPress platform. This includes full SEO implementation.
+ Partnered with other creative agencies to help them fulfill creative services not supported by their staffs.
+ Packaged products were sold at Whole Foods, Costco, Target, BevMo among others.
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Interactive Creative Director (Consulting)
Mar 2015 - Nov 2019 (4 years 8 months)
Creating interfaces for games, social sharing and custom financial mobile applications.
+ Creating unique branding.
+ Creating/determining functionality and user interaction.
+ Collaborating with both domestic and foreign programmers.
+ Occasionally working with clients where their brand would be featured.
+ Titles for HayHouse, Jack Canfield and others.
+ Multiple projects, mobile, software and marketing were handled simultaneously with multiple teams; some domestic and some, foreign.
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Creative Director (Consulting)
Innovation Protocol
Los Angeles, CA
Feb 2009 - Nov 2019 (10 years 9 months)
Art Direction and Marketing Concepts
Brochures, web branding/repositioning, corporate collateral and medical brochures.
Major online rebranding project for PayPal.
BRANDS INCLUDE: PayPal, Bioness, Korn Ferry, Medtronic, Aptus Games, MedLegal, Synagro
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Creative Director (Consulting)
Colorado Springs, CO
Aug 2010 - Mar 2015 (4 years 7 months)
Responsible for marketing graphics and communications.
+ Created HTML emails and campaign graphics.
+ Print collateral.
+ Overhauled user interfaces for several programs (Options Explorer, Options Navigator, CattleGator).
+ Instructional video production.
+ Trademark and copyright filings.
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Creative Director (Consulting)
Schwartz-Olcott Imports
Jan 2005 - Nov 2012 (7 years 10 months)
Branding, Art Direction and Marketing Concepts
Identity
Label (packaging) designs.
Ad designs. Point-of-Purchase. Presentations
BRANDS INCLUDE: Oops Wines, Barking Sheep Wines
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Creative Director (Consulting)
Sewall Road Partners
New York, NY
Jan 2006 - Nov 2012 (6 years 10 months)
Branding, Art Direction and Marketing Concepts
Identity
Label (packaging) designs.
Ad designs. Point-of-Purchase. Presentations
BRANDS INCLUDE: SPUD Vodka, Lorraine Bracco Wines, Tequila Brand (TBA - in progress)
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Creative Director / Manager, Creative Services
Brand Sense Partners
May 2005 - Jan 2009 (3 years 8 months)
Creative Direction: Responsible for brand extension strategy and development, product design (used as product inspiration for potential licensees of our managed brands), and creation of all presentations, brand packaging, style guides, logos and new identity systems. Projects include product design and inspiration, retail display renderings, presentation design, identity design & systems, collateral for both Brand Sense and our clients, market research, internet design, print management, product development, branding strategy, photography, pre-press and online distribution of brand assets.
BRANDS INCLUDE: Marriott, CatCora, Jo Frost, MGM, Chuck Norris, Halle Berry, Sheryl Crow, EA Games, Thermos, Britney Spears, Dodge, Hamilton Beach/Proctor Silex, American Museum of Natural History ... + many others
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Creative Director
Harp Advertising & Interactive
Oct 2002 - May 2005 (2 years 7 months)
Creative Direction: Responsible for design and copy of all agency work. Lead client presentations, brand building sessions and managed (AE) about half of all projects from start to finish. Projects ranged from direct mail, to web site redesigns and builds, to presentation materials and collateral. About half of all work was for the internet (web sites, emails, SEO, and user interface design). Helped create several corporate web sites and an online survey system.
Additional responsibilities: estimating, pre-press production, hi-end photo retouching, and media planning and buying.
BRANDS INCLUDE: illy caffe, Bekins, Cimco Telecommunications, Blyth Home Scents (Colonial at HOME), Allmetal Corporation, Mpower Group, Bekins, CapturePoint Payment Solutions
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Senior Art Director & Production Manager
Charron, Schwartz & Partners
May 1998 - Oct 2002 (4 years 5 months)
Art Direction: Design of collateral pieces and art for print, outdoor and internet advertising, as well as VNRs.
Internet Designer: Design, layout and production of new web sites and associated graphics.
Sites included: pernod-us.com, Go4Less.com, 1France.com, Luxury4Less.com and videosourcenews.com
Additional responsibilities: print buying and coordination, production finalization, hi-end retouching, budgeting and estimating. I was also the final QC evaluator, making changes in ads and collateral as necessary - coordinating with the agency principles to deliver flawless work (kerning, image adjustments, color adjustments .. etc.). I learned and applied new internet technologies and advised as to internet marketing strategies - including site traffic analysis relative to marketing efforts and phone response hours for e-commerce and promotions.
BRANDS INCLUDE: ABC News, WestPoint Stevens (Martex), Austin Nichols, Imperial Home Decor Group, Russ Berrie, Doral Hotels & Resorts, Meristar, www.Go4Less.com, www.1France.com, www.Luxury4Less.com
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Art Director, Pre-Press Manager and Retoucher
Color Graphic Press
Jun 1994 - May 1998 (3 years 11 months)
Third generation printing and design shop with hi-end presses.
+ Worked with clients (Bulova, Armitron, and others) to design and produce professional retail catalogs, sell sheets and collateral.
+ Hi-end photo editing; predominantly jewelry, watches and cosmetics requiring specific color matching on press.
+ Management of pre-press department. We became the go-to shop for designers on windows platforms needing proper Postscript processing of their files. Clients were referred to us by both Scitex and Corel as of the result of my Postscript conversion skills.
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Art Director: Marketing, Packaging and GUI
Interactive Publishing Corporation
May 1993 - May 1994 (1 year)
Early interactive CD education and entertainment producer.
+ Designed and created unique graphical user interfaces.
+ Retail and OEM packaging design.