ASCEND MARKETING  |  AUSTIN, TEXAS

GROUP LEAD / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
FEBRUARY 2014 TO PRESENT

Overseeing creative teams in the Austin and Grapevine offices

• Managed and provided direction for a wonderful team of designers and writers

• Responsible for selecting, managing and directing outside talent including designers, writers and other artists

• In charge of day-to-day account management and creative production for a number of clients including the Austin office’s largest client

• Developing and presenting creative work

• Worked closely with clients to create award-winning projects and, more importantly, happy clients

• Managed estimates, scopes, budgets and the workloads

• Partnered with the account team to develop strategies for best meeting the clients’ creative, cultural and project management needs

• Worked closely with principals and clients to identify opportunities for account growth.

Feature accounts: Acorda Therapeutics, Ameriflex, Edelman, SailPoint

PROCKNOW DESIGN  |  KYLE, TEXAS

OWNER/ART DIRECTOR
FEBRUARY 2000 TO PRESENT

Offering a wide range of creative services for national and local clients

• Providing art direction and design services by working in conjunction with public relations, advertising agencies, and creative teams; as well as directly with clients

• Developing proposals and budgets

• Concept development

• Managing project development and expenses through all stages to assure quality and comply with deadlines and budgets

• Establishing and maintaining client brands; adhering to the clients’ brand standards and the creative brief to ensure an effective product

• Developing and sustaining client and vendor relationships

Feature accounts: The Ampersand Agency, Clear Channel Communications, Greater Texas Landscape Services, Guerra DeBerry Coody, Jack Brown/Slater-White Cleaners, Potential Being Creative Consulting, Sunlight Photonics, Texas Monthly, The Wood Agency

THE WOOD AGENCY  |  SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS

ART DIRECTOR
SEPTEMBER 2008 TO NOVEMBER 2013

Serving as lead art director on a number of accounts representing a variety of industries

• Collaborating with writers and creative directors to develop fresh and successful campaigns for our clients

• Print and digital projects

• Generating concepts and occasionally bits of copy

• Attentive, deliberate, and creative brand development

• Working closely with account executives and the traffic coordinator to consistently meet or exceed our clients’ needs and expectations

Feature accounts: Boggus Ford, Cordillera Ranch, Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau, Methodist Healthcare System, Natural Bridge Caverns, NatureSweet Cherubs Tomatoes

NOURZADS, INC. (PRESENTLY DOOR NUMBER 3)  |  AUSTIN, TEXAS

DESIGNER/ART DIRECTOR
MARCH 1998 TO JANUARY 2000

Primary responsibilities were to design client material and to participate in developing projects from concept to delivery of finished piece

• Concepting and design of: advertisements, direct mail pieces, corporate identity packages, logos, newsletters, brochures, promotional items, booth graphics, and more

• Presenting to client and in-house audiences

• Managing projects through various stages of development