• 20+ years of solid agency experience • local, regional, and national award winning art direction • strong presentation skills • inspirational manager • excellent client contact • big-picture thinker with seasoned conceptual ability • able to quarterback or cheerlead. Cat herder.

THE EXTEND GROUP. Executive Creative Director
September 2014-2019
Oversight of the agencies overall creative culture as well as delivering consumer focused conceptual thinking and leadership for agency staff and client’s. A main focus has been to create and blend strategically focused consumer insight with the digital marketing environment. Achieving meaningful  “interaction” with consumers, more so than a "tactical" interactive encounter alone. 

BRICK. Creative Director 
April 08-September 2014
As the “creative director consultant” I am working with digitally focused marketing organization with a primary focus on helping create and blend strategically focused consumer insight with the digital marketing environment. The focus is on “interaction” with consumers, more so than a tactical interactive encounter. My charge has been to help these small start-up’s differentiate themselves from “web” designers and to be seen as a complete marketing services organization.

FIRE and RAIN. Creative Director
June 05-April 08
As the creative director my primary responsibility was to deliver consumer focused conceptual thinking and leadership for agency and client’s. My primary national account focus was Eli Lilly brands, Evista, and Cymbalta. Stand out achievements include a direct mail campaign for Evista that achieved an 11% response rate, which is 7% above industry norms. Conceptual work on Cymbalta was instrumental in the agency being awarded a $300,000.00 project, beating out agencies ten times their size.

GSW Worldwide. Senior Creative  
April 02-June 05
As a member of the creative “wave” team I was responsible for the conceptual integrity of all the brands within the organization. Our group delivered conceptual thinking to each brand marketing team. We would also oversee the execution of these concepts to assure that the integrity of the idea was maintained. Strategically focused thinking rooted in consumer insight was the foundation of our success. Clients- Genentech (Raptiva), Lilly (Evista, Zyprexa, Symbyx, Strattera, Alimta, Cymbalta), Integrity Pharmaceuticals (Urimax), Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals (NovaNatal). 

Gee Jeffery & Partners. Senior Art Director
May 99-April 02
Part of a three-member new business team responsible for opening the Canadian based agencies first U.S. office to service the $3 million dollar Cincinnati Bell Wireless account.  Our mission was to establish a strong working relationship with the client as well as reaching out to the general business community in Cincinnati Ohio. One week after launching our first campaign Cincinnati Bell saw a 50% increase in wireless activations.

WonderGroup. VP Creative Director 
October 97-May 99 
Clients- Trolli Gummi Bears, Tetramin Fish Food, Chiquita Bananas, Toymax, P&G. 

Northlich Stolley LaWarre. Senior Art Director  
May 94-October 97 
Clients- P&G, Homemade Brand Ice Cream, LaRosa’s Pizza. 
 
Valentine-Radford. Senior Art Director
June 89-May 94 
Clients- Hallmark, Sprint. 

TBWA. Art Director 
June 84-June 89 
Clients- Ralston Purina, Monsanto Wear Dated Carpet, Winchester Ammunition,Absolut Vodka. 

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