PROFESSIONAL
- In current position serve as Art Director for 14 different accounts
- Work with several editors and direct designers, photographers, illustrators, and Internet programmers while creating results-oriented design
- Implement personalized URL (PURL) with cross media promotion, including viral videos, direct mail, and e-blasts
- Raised the integrity and value of the design department within the organization, helping to secure several large new accounts.
- Meet regularly with clients and perform client design presentations
- Lead brainstorming sessions that result in tangible improvement to client services
- Support the strategic growth of the company by sharing new ideas with the owners
- Partner with editors to successfully take print magazines online using the latest Flip book technologies
- Helped develop a strategy for social media implementation and guidelines of accounts
- Consistently bill at or over 100% of available hours (based on 40-hour work week)
- Over 5 years of print buying and mailing coordination experience
- Responsible for all print buying, exceeding $500,000/year
- Successfully negotiated and reduced print costs by over 30%
- Set up a rebate program with our preferred vendors
- Responsible for coordinating mailing services, exceeding 200,000 pieces/year
- Taught Web design at a prestigious Midwest private college.
- Worked with several Fortune 500 companies at Inter Ad Agency

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