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October 2006 - Present, Senior Creative Consultant, Oracle
Products:
Oracle.com, Full-Spectrum Brand Creative, Full-Spectrum Direct Marketing, Co-Brand and Partner Creative, Events
My current role is a truly awesome opportunity to come back to one of the world's premiere business products. I worked on the Oracle account while at Grey Advertising. Now, I'm happy to be back in a senior creative capacity, contributing my art direction and interactive storytelling expertise to this already talented and organized team!
November 2005 - October 2006 Creative Director, LetsTalk.com
Online Products:
LetsTalk.com, Powered By sites, Kyocera, N-Gage, LG, Palm, Alltel, Sprint, Verizon, Cingular
During this exciting time I returned to the online product environment. LetsTalk is a one-stop shop for wireless products and services. I primarily focused on full-spectrum product ad creative and co-brands. Managed 5 on-staff creatives, while assisting with daily online production management of a team up to 21 Q/A, Production and Product-DB staffers.
April 2004-October 2005 Art
Director, Reply Inc.
Online Products:
Reply, Connecting Neighbors, Realty Now,
Agent Connect, iCastle, iMotors,
Open Auto, Car Club
I directed all online/offline creative across 8 brand lines. I lead
product, advertising and marketing communication on all fronts from B2B
to B2C. Areas of specialty were online
and interactive in nature. Web
sites, landing pages, banners, emails, newsletters, print ads, tradeshows and
customer retention/network building programs as areas of particular
strength.
1999-2004 Creative
Director, Core Advertising Inc.
Clients:
TiVo, e-piphany, Oracle, Moss Software, vSente, Zing, Imagestation, Eidos Interactive, LucasFilm,
ActionAce
Managed a team of both staffers and freelancers and led creative efforts
on all fronts. Mentored creative
teams, designed new creative for pitches and developed for and presented
all new business. Saw projects
though production and distribution to client, or to advertising channels.
2000-2003 Senior Art
Director/ACD, Grey Worldwide
Clients:
Oracle, Compaq, HP, Gemplus,
Chase
Assisted the Creative Director and Senior Copywriter in managing a team of 15 staff creatives and multiple freelancers. Worked closely with copywriters, producers and designers nationwide to create and implement all creative projects for the western region. Includes full spectrum of creative from Broadcast and Print, to Online and Events. Designed and produced creative for new
accounts. Our team maintained
a creative focus on business development, including the creation of new
product brands for Oracle and strategic partnerships between
Silicon Valley
giants.
1997-1999 National
Interactive Art Director, TMP Worldwide
Clients and Products:
eBay, The Drucker
School, SBC, Peoplesoft, Austin Knight, Monster.com
Worked closely with copywriters, producers and designers to create and
implement all interactive projects for the western region for Austin
Knight, TMP and Monster.com. Includes traditional media associated
with online and interactive projects. Managed and mentored teams nationwide with respect to interactive
direction of the agency. I
actively employed the use of burgeoning online technologies such as Flash
and email marketing technologies to create online games, interactive
presentations and other communication and retention tools.
1993-1997 Jr. Art
Director, Winterland
Clients:
MCA, Universal Studios, Hard Rock Cafe, Numerous
Music Acts, Tommy Hilfiger,
Levis
other fashion brands
Directed and mentored designers in methods that increased productivity
and creativity simultaneously. Designed and Art Directed for many of the
fashion and entertainment brands we supported. Managed a staff of 15
designers and numerous freelancers.
1986-1990 Intelligence
Operations Specialist, USAF
Primary Role:
Intelligence analysis, graphic design and
presentation for senior level military and government officials
Key achievements: Graphic standards developer and achievement award
winning intelligence analyst/presenter. I was a liaison to government
contractors in the development of the electronic "DAWS" graphic
intelligence network which tied directly into early versions of DIA
internet graphic archives.
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