"Excellent creative problem solver”
"Extremely responsive"
"Brings a skillful audience-first point of view"
"Great personal communication"
“Highly responsive and committed and lives up to his last name!”
"A professional within our organization who really cares about what we do and who we serve."
"Thank you for being a great design team. Your efforts on major projects, day to day creative input and all the scrambles,
just want to say we couldn't deliver the great work and projects without you. Many thanks!"
EXPERIENCE
CVS Health / Art Direction & Design
2009 – Present
Developed and executed promotional materials for a variety of new products and services including new initiatives to win health plan accounts, improve medication adherence through mail and retail pharmacy counseling programs, provide options through the Affordable Care Act, improve understanding of Medicare Part D and Medicaid programs and improve adoption of new digital medication adherence tools. Enhanced existing marketing for in-store clinics, specialty medication support and unique maintenance medication program.
Lead art director for sales meeting and trade show branding, including event app. Developed award-winning client tour kit for mail pharmacy facility. Developed B2B sales materials, with new client wins exceeding $6 billion in 2014 and 2015. Led art direction of B2B rebranding including CVS Caremark to CVS Health. Art directed photo and video shoots. Mentored new team members.
Freelance / Art Direction & Design
2009 – Present
Developed branding for large pharmaceutical, real estate, higher education, software, and consulting businesses. Developed welcome kit, invites, RFPs and trade show signage for language solutions company. Developed websites for small businesses.
Schawk / Giannini Creative / Art Direction & Design
2007 –2009
Led logo design, typography, branding and production. Traveled onsite with clients for design and execution of pitches and presentations. Oversaw and executed complex production campaigns for Nintendo, P&G, McDonald’s, Metromix & Allstate. Designed internal rebrand and relaunch of company website.
Capps @ Leo Burnett Chicago / Production Design
2001 – 2007
Lead production designer for direct mail campaigns including catalogs and cookbooks for Philip Morris brands with 500K+ distribution. Lead production design on packaging redesigns and in-store shelf displays. Primary designer for presentations, pitches and intricate mockups.
EDUCATION
BS, Advertising, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Chicago Portfolio School, Chicago
Robinson & Maites, Internship
General Motors, Internship
PROFICIENCIES
Adobe CC
Microsoft Office