Experience
Sep 2008
Senior Art Director
Checkmark Communications (Nestlé Purina PetCare Company), Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- • Strategically plan and design for Purina Cat Chow brand and Purina TBonz brand
- • Maintain excellent client relations while exceeding expectations in design, direction, and ideation
- • Design print ads, packaging, store displays, and special event materials
- • Art direct and plan photo shoots, video shoots, and video post productions for web and television
- • 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
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
