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My resume: where I’ve been and what I’ve done.
Career Accomplishments
- Creative director and art director experienced in dealing with retail, healthcare, high-tech, travel/hospitality, and direct-response clients.
- Creative director for monthly upscale lifestyle magazine.
- Successfully set-up and managed in-house digital video and digital photography departments.
- Recruited to lead Sino-American joint venture electronic publishing and design organization in People’s Republic of China.
- Handled marketing and logistics for 3-month hot air balloon expedition to southern Africa.
- Implemented major graphics offshore outsourcing project while at The Tampa Tribune.
- Planned and directed $500,000 investment in electronic publishing system that resulted in $3 million annual increase of company-wide revenues.
- Assisted companies such as Pizza Hut International, Amoco, Phillips Petroleum, and numerous advertising agencies to streamline creative operations with advanced desktop publishing procedures.
- Managed creative and graphics staffs of up to 65 full-time employees, in addition to being a plant manager for 120+ person printing facility.
Summary of Qualifications
- 20+ years of advertising, marketing, and graphics experience.
- Diversified background in creative design, print production, and electronic publishing management.
- Strong management style that combines bottom-line fiscal priorities with people-oriented team building approach.
- Excellent organizational skills and proven ability to direct diverse personalities in a productive creative environment.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills.
- Ability to integrate new technologies into every-day business practices.
- Strong strategic orientation towards creative execution.
