visual languages

Adobe Creative Suite CS4: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash; HTML / CSS; Quark 6.0
familiarity with Javascript and Actionscript

professional landscape | 2004-2007

VML, the largest agency in Kansas City, specializing in interactive marketing
Kansas City, MO

Senior Art Director
Creative lead for website designs, blogs and other online and interactive media, as well as offline
marketing collateral, mobile marketing and viral marketing efforts for national clients; lead
Art Director for various other offline branding campaigns, including print, collateral, signage,
direct mail, food photography and lifestyle photography.

• Designed award-winning website redesign and blog for Sprint PictureMail;
  worked with creative and production team to ensure consistency of design and functionality
• Coordinated large photo shoots for several clients, making final choice of talent,
  wardrobe, location, and prop styling; art directed final photography and video shoot,
  to create striking, brand-enhancing images for use on website and collateral
• Created award-winning website, from site map through design and direction of production,
  for Spofford Home, a residential treatment home for disturbed youth

professional landscape | 2002-2003

Department of Design, School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS

Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design

Director of an advanced applied seminar designed to resemble an on-campus internship;
instructor of introductory graphic design class and an advanced class on publication design.

professional landscape | 2001-2002

NK, (Nicholson Kovac), counted among the top independent full service
advertising agencies in the country, serving national and global brands
Kansas City, MO

Senior Art Director

• Art Director of award-winning print and broadcast advertising brand campaign for
  Wellmark BlueCross and BlueShield as well as brand guidelines, brand brochure, exhibit
  design; creative lead for award-winning promotional materials for Kansas City Friends of
  Alvin Ailey; art director on direct, print and retail promotions for Sprint and other clients.
• As art director on tv spot from concept through post-production, raised profile of client
  in local market and repositioned brand to meet consumer’s need, as expressed in focus groups.
• Created a new elegance for the KC Friends of Alvin Ailey brand through consistently
  innovative and elegant use of materials and format and language.

professional landscape | 1996-2001

Hallmark Cards, the world’s largest greeting card company
Kansas City, MO

Designer, Everyday Card Studio

• Designer of cards and specialty product for several different product lines, working with
  product from initial brainstorm and concept through focus groups and into production.
• Key player in defining role of digital designer within the company’s existing workflow.
• Upgraded and improved sales of prominent Nature’s Sketchbook card line