Experience
Sep 2008
Senior Art Director
Checkmark Communications (Nestlé Purina PetCare Company), Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- • Strategically plan and design print, packaging, store displays, and special event materials for Purina Cat Chow brand and Purina TBonz brand
- • Designed and help run multi-city PR national tour to interview for the new position of Purina Cat Chow Correspondent, followed by a “Finalist Day” interview, photo, and video shoot, and follow-up photo shoot of the winner
- • Concepted and storyboarded a TV commercial that won against Purina Cat Chow’s TV commercial agency
- • Won additional video work for CheckMark by being a one-man camera operator, director, producer, and editor for a small series of real-time web videos uploaded to social media outlets
- • Actively involved in developing a video production department within the agency
- • Trained and directing a group of external brand representatives for social media video and communications
- • Illustrate for and participate in company-wide ideation brainstorm sessions
- • Assisted in and art directed episodes of an Animal Planet reality television show “Housecat Housecall”
- • Maintain excellent client relations while exceeding expectations in design, direction, and ideation
May 2003 to Aug 2008
Art Director
the minnow PROJECT, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- • Produced print, tv, and web design for eclectic range of clients
- • Created print ads, packaging, brand identities, logos, 2D animation, websites, web banners, tv commercials, and illustrations
- • Participated in training and supervising internal design team
April 2002 to May 2003
Web Design Intern
Sandhills Publishing, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- • Designed and coded websites for contracted clients of trader publications
Aug 2002 to May 2003
Graphic Designer & Illustrator
The Sower newspaper, Seward, Nebraska, USA
- • Produced advertising designs for local businesses
- • Created illustrations for featured newspaper stories
