I have worked professionally as a Creative Director, Art Director and Designer for over 20 years. In that time I have worked in a wide variety of in house art departments and agencies as well as maintaining a continuous on going freelance career.
I have done everything from Storyboards and design for animated shows for major networks to campaigns for international brands.
2009 - 2017 Illustration / Creative Manager / Senior Designer - Adidas North America
Hired as head of NFL graphics. Transitioned to quick to market team when NFL license lapsed.
• My team increased sales in the quick-to-market branded graphics department from $2.4 million in 2016 overall to over $4 million YTD by end of 2nd quarter of 2017, exceeding organization-wide corporate goal of a 15-25% increase.
• My team improved delivery time, by streamlining process and prioritizing workflow. We managed to develop quick to market process that improved delivery times from art brief to shipped product from 3 weeks to 10 days.
• In 2009 I developed an on-trend additional quarterly packages that generated additional sales that offset loss of sales with Tee Shirt category.
2000 - 2008: Senior Art Director / Art Director - World Wrestling Entertainment.
Hired as head of Live Events team. Worked across all departments including Pay-Per-View marketing, consumer products division (all merchandise including T shirt graphics, memorabilia, and all product packaging) and Live Event marketing.
• As Art Director with the Consumer Products Group we increased average top tier t-shirt sales from $80,000 sell through per shirt to $150,000
• My team executed every kind of design for WWE from video packaging to pay-per-view campaigns, trade shows booths, promotional content, POP/POS content with retail partners, marketing, international tours, and Live Event advertising.
1986 - 2000: Freelance Designer / Art Director / Illustrator
I have worked professionally as an Illustrator, Designer, and Art Director for over 20 years. The dates listed do not reflect all the freelance work I’ve done for a variety of clients. I have not listed these in their entirety for the sake of brevity.
Partial list of clients include: Grey Advertising • J Brown • Time Warner • DC Comics • Central Park Media • Software Sculptors • Revelation Records • MTV animation • Nickelodeon • Boneyard Press • Angry Little Man productions • Sunbow productions • Fox Kids network • Columbia House • Fangoria magazine • Fantagraphics publishing • Dischord Records • Sony Music
Specialties - expertise in Creative Cloud 2017, Photoshop including all aspects of digital painting and digital illustration, photo retouching and traditional illustration of all kinds including everything from pencil and marker comps to finished paintings.
Education - Corcoran School of Art • Pratt Institute - Fine Art Studies
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