I'm an award-winning Art Director, Designer and Copywriter. My creative spans cosmetics & beauty to apparel, food & beverage, communications, electronics, real estate and healthcare. I help brands find their voice and connect with audiences through words and pictures.

I've provided art direction, design and writing for social media, broadcast, print, web, direct, packaging and just about every touch point in a customer's path on behalf of the world's most recognized brands and for smaller, regional companies. I've engaged their audiences worldwide and locally in memorable ways that have forged consequential, lasting relationships between fan and brand. I'd like to do the same for you.

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Freelance

Art Direction, Design, Writing, Messaging and Content Development for Social Media, Print and Broadcast

AgileOne Apple, CND, Ryka, Bearpaw, AVIA, Alere, GREY San Francisco, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Greenhaus, Barratt American, Harrah’s, ADWORKS, The Washington Post, LION Bioscience, Corsair Marine, Teleflora, POM Wonderful, Rouge Vodka, Sharp HealthCare/Badami & Associates, SkyBell, Trust Me Vodka
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CND
Vista | CA
Creative Director 

Responsible for all visual and written communications. Further developed and steered the brand look and voice of a $68 million + per year global cosmetics and skincare company. Strategic development, naming, positioning, copywriting and art direction for product launches, advertising, web, online brand center, direct mail, e-blasts, collateral, P.O.P., packaging and quarterly magazine. Conceptualizing and art direction of beauty and fashion photography and retouching. Development of brand guidelines for international distributor network. Supervision of staff and freelance designers, writers and production resources.
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Marketing Design Group
San Diego | CA
Creative Director 

World Market Center: Las Vegas Market & Las Vegas Design Center, SEMA Show, George Little Management: San Francisco Int’l Gift Fair & Seattle Gift Show, Pacific Market Center, Hanley Wood, MAGIC
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Campbell Mithun
Irvine | CA
Associate Creative Director

AirTouch Cellular, Verizon Wireless
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NKR&B
San Marcos | CA 
Creative Director

FOUR•S Baking (Weber’s Bread), QuadraMed Corp, SGI International (Spalding Sports Drinks), Eco Terra Earth Friendly Foods, L3 Communications, Chandon Estates/Domaine Chandon
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Sisti Creative Services
San Diego | CA 
Creative Director & Owner 

Peter Pan Industries, Advertiser’s Display Binder, Computer Intelligence/Ziff Davis, American Chiropractic Network, Insight Electronics, Axis Components, Sandesa Software, ComFocus, Okells Fireplace, Aaron, Paine & Korb, North American Tours, Jostens Learning
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Primus Advertising
San Diego | CA
Associate Creative Director

Starlite Cruises, Michaelangelo’s Frozen Foods, Alvarado Hospital, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
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Sisti Design Studios
Glen Rock | NJ
Creative Director & Owner

AT&T, ABC Capital Cities, Bantam Books, Crum & Forster, Information Science Incorporated, Seikosha, Minolta, National Academy for Paralegal Studies, Sony Corp of America
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The Curtin Group of Companies
Englewood Cliffs | NJ
Art Director

Coca Cola, Burger King, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Walt Disney Co., Lehn & Fink, Colgate Palmolive, Fisher Price, Safeway, Nabisco, General Foods, U.S. Army
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Freelance Illustration, Design & Production
NY & NJ Metropolitan Area

ABC Broadcasting, AT&T, Billboard Information Network, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bristol Meyers, Coopers & Lybrand, Foote Cone & Belding/Leber Katz Partners, High Fidelity, Hoffmann LaRoche, Lenox, Poppe Tyson, Swintec, Wall Street Computer Review, Sony Corp of America
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Education:
Fashion Institute of Technology – NY, NY 
A.A., Illustration 
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Awards & Honors:
Award of Excellence, The Art Directors Club of New Jersey. Best of  Show, Legal Marketing Association Your Honor Awards. BPAA Communicators Award. Annually invited guest lecturer, seminar leader, and mentor for Upper Division B.F.A. Illustration program, Fashion Institute of Technology. Invited member, Graphic Artists Guild Professional Practices Committee