COMPANIES

Launchpad Advertising

New York, NY

Senior Art Director

November 2011 – Present

Clients include CondeNast, Wall Street Journal, FairPoint Communications, PulsePoint

Art directed websites, microsites, print, in-store and banners

Opportunity to have more ownership of clients in a smaller environment


Ogilvy

New York, NY

Art Director

August 2010 – November 2011

Clients include UPS, Citizens Bank, Castrol, American Express, GE

Art directed websites, banners, rich media, videos, print and mobile


DraftFCB

New York, NY

Junior Art Director

April 2008 – July 2010

Worked on a variety of accounts such as HP, IHG and CA developing art direction, design and coding skills

Mainly art directed websites, e-mails, product videos, print ads, packaging and point of sale materials for client Computer Associates


The Kaplan Thaler Group

New York, NY

Creative Assistant

December 2006 – May 2008

Creative assistant and assistant art director with the interactive department and with teams such as Trojan, Mitchum, US Bank


Publicis NY

New York, NY

Junior Art Director

June 2006 – December 2006

Lead creative summer intern


EDUCATION

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

September 2002 – May 2006

B.F.A. in advertising design from the College of Visual and Performing Arts

Cum laude

Syracuse University Study Abroad: Florence Italy, Spring 2005


SKILLS

Art direction, design

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Some familiarity with Flash, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Action Script, Open Source Web Content Management Systems, JavaScript


ABOUT ME

My favorite summer job was painting murals

Completed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in only seven years

The founder of Pinterest Ben Silbermann repinned me :)







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