DESIGN IS AT THE CORE OF EVERYTHING I DO.
I am an award-winning multidisciplinary visual creative with over 20 years of experience in the advertising & design industry. I have worked for the world’s top agencies on some of their largest and most challenging accounts. I have recently produced work for Apple, Land Rover, Modelo, Jagermeister, Zappos, Frye Boots, Other Half Brewing and IBM.
SOME THINGS I’M GOOD AT
Conceptual Graphic Design
Conceptual Advertising
Web & Digital Design
Brand Design
Package Design
Illustration
Art Direction
Social & Print Advertising
Creative TV Spots & Video Content
Photography
Video Production
AR/VR Content & Post-Production
I DO WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THE WORK DONE
Vendor Management
Project Management
Team Leadership
Stakeholder Alignment
BRAND EXPERIENCE
Adidas
Apple
American Express
Anheuser Busch
AT&T
Beck’s
Christiania Vodka
Charity: Water
Chevron
Carlsberg
Coors
Eddie Bauer
ExxonMobil
Frye Boots
Guinness
HP
IBM
Johnson & Johnson Baby
Jagermeister
J.P. Morgan Chase
Kodak
L.L.Bean
LG
Land Rover
Louisiana Pacific
Miller Brewing
Microsoft
Other Half Brewing
Red Bull
Red Stripe
Penguin Books
Starbucks
Stolichnaya Vodka
Tiffany’s
Verizon
Vick’s
EXPERIENCE
Other Half Brewing
Creative Director (December 2020 – January 2022)
As the head of creative at Other Half, I was able to get involved in all aspects of creative, marketing, sales, operations and production. I was responsible for imagining over 200 unique beer concepts with ownership and seeing them through to completion with my creative team. We developed a streamlined processes that enabled us to design over 85 different beer labels each quarter. We opened 5 new locations, converted a taproom brewery model into a distro model and built a successful e-commerce program.
BBDO New York
Freelance Creative Director (November 2019 – December 2020)
Creative director on ExxonMobil & Visa Global; and also worked on the Coors Light pitch.
Fake Love
Group Creative Director (January 2017 – November 2019)
At the time, Fake Love was one of the top experiential creative agencies. I led teams on experiential assignments for Jagermeister, Tiffany & Co. and Land Rover as well as wrote many pitch decks with the head of marketing.
Erwin Penland / Hill Holliday
Vice President & Creative Director (October 2014 – November 2016)
I led the creative for all things advertising (Print, Retail, Digital, TV, etc.) on the L.L.Bean and Frye Boots accounts. My team size flexed from 8-18 depending on the size of the projects. I also created spots for Denny’s and ran the redesign of dennys.com.
BBDO New York
Associate Creative Director & Design Director (March 2010 – October 2014)
During my time at BBDO, it was my duty to oversee the rebrand of HP as well as develop traditional advertising & lead the digital work for commercial printing. Prior to that I worked in the design group doing design for brands like Guinness, Red Stripe, Cinemax, Johnson & Johnson, Loews, Arby’s
Publicis New York
Integrated Director of Design (June 2008 – February 2010)
As design director, I led a team of 4 to 8 to work on a variety of projects: websites, traditional advertising, digital advertising and animation. Most of the focus was on P&G brands like Vicks, Charmin, and Crest.
Ogilvy New York
Senior Art Director (April 2007 – June 2008)
At Ogilvy, As a fledgling art director, I worked primarily on the Kodak account developing the “Make Something” campaign. The campaign extended out to print, digital online videos, digital advertising and an e-commerce experience. I helped pitch and win Stolichnaya and worked on Sprite, Minute Maid, IBM and internal projects.
Wholesale Distributors Studio Seattle
Owner (Dec 2003 – April 2007)
For 4 years, I ran a design studio in Seattle. My clients included Nike, Starbucks, Eddie Bauer, Etnies and numerous advertising agencies like Wieden + Kennedy, Publicis, 86 the Onions and Creature.