VP Director – Creative,  Brand, Marketing, Sales, Strategy

15 years commercial art and design experience
10 years international advertising and campaign leadership
3 years university level teaching experience
International executive level client management experience
Manage large budget, multi team projects
Vertical experience: Financial, CPG, Telecom, Liquor, Media,  F&B
Extensive sales experience
Always deliver
Problem solver - get it done attitude
Accurate time and budget management
Excellent team selection, motivation and management
Technical, creative, entrepreneurial
Very passionate about traditional and new media
Commercial photographer
Commercial film and video director

Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, DVD Studio Pro, Quicktime VR, Final Cut Pro, Shake, Commotion, AutoCAD, Quark, html, JavaScript, xml, .asp.

2008 - 2009              Playground, Intrawest                             Vancouver, B.C.
Global Creative Director

• Responsible for all creative strategy and execution for international resort real estate projects. Work Included, selecting and directing agencies, creative directing multiple hotel brands, campaign ROI and building a profitable client side agency.

February 2005 – 2008                       G2                             New York, NY
VP Creative Director

• Responsible for all digital creative, brand building and campaign design for Mars Inc. Brands include M&M’S, Skittles, Starburst, Milky Way, and 3 Musketeers.  Responsible for executive level client presentation and management.
• Responsible for directing and building a new communication portal for the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The site was nominated for a Webby award in 2006. www.nycedc.com
  

November 2003 – January 2005   AOL Time Warner   Wash, DC & NY, NY
VP, Creative Director

• Responsible for creative direction for all community properties on the AOL service.  These include: AIM, chats, message boards, journals, blogs, groups, social networking think-tank and prototype development. 75% of AOL and AIM’s 70 million-member base use community products at least 4 times per week.  Manage a highly productive and expertly skilled team of 12 interactive media designers. Responsible for all community related business development creative, including, video production and off/online assets.  Presentation, delivery and ideation with the senior executive of AOL and Fortune 100 companies doing business with AOL.
  

2003 - 2007       Maryland Institute College of Arts      Baltimore, MD
Interactive Media Faculty

• Classes include: Interactive media II, Interface Design, Electronic Media and Culture to senior and honors level interactive media majors.
  

1999 - 2001                      Telus Enterprise Solutions            Vancouver, B.C.
Senior Project Manager

• Directed, designed and built first version of telus.com.  Managed a team of 15.

1993 - 2000              Slow City Holdings Inc.              Vancouver, B.C.
Founder  – 65 employees

• Restaurant and Bar start-ups in 1994, 1996 and 1999. Responsible for:  business plan, concept design, financing,  marketing, branding, retailing, advertising, revenue growth (700% over six years), expansion into 3 properties.

2001 – 2003 Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York                
Master of Fine Arts in Design Technology (MFADT)

• Digital design, broadcast, video, multimedia, interactive media

1998 – 2000    Emily Carr Institute of  Art and Design      Vancouver, B.C.

• Digital design, photography, video, multimedia

1992 – 1996               University of Victoria,                           Victoria, B.C.                
Bachelor of Arts, Co-op option

• Advertising, marketing, sociology, psychology, fine arts

1990 – 1992   British Columbia Institute of Technology   Vancouver, B.C.                
Associate Financial Management Diploma Program 

• International finance, advertising, marketing

Mountain biking, running, yoga, photography, video, sailing, travel.