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| Technical Skills |
e-Business transformation strategy
Digital branding and corporate identity
Marketing and communication strategies
Information architecture and human experience design
Graphical user interface design
Strategic account management
Strong knowledge of internet technologies
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| Professional Experience |
Director, Strategy Group
Web Design Group, Inc.
A member of divine interVentures Internet Zaibatsu family
Chicago, Illinois (1999-Present)
Primary responsibilities:
- Create and lead Brand Strategy Group, e-Business services
- Integrate and create advocacy within the organization for the importance of creative brand strategy in e-business
- Partner with clients to conduct business, industry and competitive analysis in order to create online business strategy which encompasses business logic, creative brand and marketing integration and technical application functionality
- Provide strategic account management and sales support throughout client relationships
- Ensure online strategy is applied throughout business application development
- Provide creative direction to the experience and interface design teams
- Conceptualize visual identity and graphical user interface with applied usability and human experience design
Senior Creative Director
digIT Interactive Inc.
Toronto, Ontario (1998-1999)
Primary responsibilities:
- Lead and develop creative team, ensuring design excellence and fostering team and individual growth
- Translate clients' organizational needs and communication objectives into creative business solutions
- Conceptualize and develop creative media for print and digital marketing campaigns
- Organize and create project timelines, budgets and production teams
Creative Director
Caught in the Web, Inc.
Toronto, Ontario (1997-1998)
Primary responsibilities:
- Lead and develop creative team, ensuring design excellence and fostering team and individual growth
- Translate clients' organizational needs and communication objectives into innovative web-based solutions
- Execute site building in areas of coding and production
Creative Team Leader
Webco Press
Lapeer, Michigan (1997-1998)
Primary responsibilities:
- Lead and develop creative and production teams, ensuring design and production excellence and delivering print jobs to in-house press on time and within budget
- Conceptualize and develop creative media for traditional marketing campaigns, magazine and newspaper advertising
- All aspects of print production from pre-press to completion of web printing, cutting and folding
- Organize and create project timelines, budgets and production teams
- Create and maintain asset management program
- Oversee administrative reporting and creative billing
Designer
Creative Services, Inc.
Lapeer, Michigan (1992)
Primary responsibilities:
- Develop campaigns, corporate identity and annual reports
- All aspects of print production
Designer/Director
Intuitive Design
Lapeer, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois (1989-1997)
Primary responsibilities:
- Conceptualize and develop creative media for traditional marketing campaigns and corporate identity
- All aspects of print design and production from digital layout and pre-press to film
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| Education |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
B.F.A. Program, Visual Communication
Michigan State University
Lansing, Michigan
Michigan Press Association Design Workshop
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| Interests |
Webgrrls, Chicago
Fast Company Group of Friends, Chicago
Travel, high-tech gadgets, reading, digital photography
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