University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A. 1975 - Art Education

Launch Creative Marketing, Inc. 3/01 - 12/02
Senior Art Director/Designer for sales promotion, POP, packaging

Clients included Nakano Foods and mainly on Keebler Foods.

Freelance Art Direction, Design & Illustration
12/88 - 3/01 12/02 - present

Advertising, promotion, direct mail, trade show, outdoor, POP, package design, corporate identity for consumer, brand development some business-to-business, and industrial accounts. Clients are advertising/sales promotion and integrated marketing agencies, and client side.

List of agencies included:

Wunderman

Simon Marketing

Robinson & Maites

Impact (Marketing Drive)

141 Worldwide

DraftWorldwide

Frankel & Co.

The Grand Group

Promotional Marketing(Upshot)

Leo Burnett

August Bishop & Mier

DDB Needham

Brigandi and Associates

Kornick Lindsay, Inc. (packaging)

Capps Design

Anthem Group

Aspen Marketing Services

Wencel/Hess Design (packaging)

List of clients direct:

Alberto-Culver

Categories included:

Keebler, Corona Beer, M&M Mars, SBC, Quality Checked Milk, Gortons Seafoods, Ford Gum, Taco Bell, Kellogg's, Mitsubishi Industrial Electronics, VO 5 Beauty Products, Action Packed Sports Trading Cards, True Value Hardware, and more.

Lee Hill Inc. Marketing Services Agency 11/87 - 12/88
Senior Art Director/Designer for sales promotion.

Clients included Quaker Ken-L Ration; Martel Cognac; Kellogg's; M&M / Mars.

Rogers Merchandising, Inc. (now Wunderman Cato-Johnson) 5/83 - 11/87
Art Director/Designer for sales promotion.

Clients included AT&T; Bojangles Southern Fried Chicken; Baskin Robbins; Miller Brewing; Godfathers Pizza; Wendy's International; Burger King.

The ability to draw rough ideas in pencil form(yes, I know how to draw) in layout and design; stylized digital illustration. Can work directly with printers, separators, and clients. Experienced in art directing 'on set' photo sessions for food, product (table top), and model (people) photography. As Art Director / Designer I am responsible for concept development and design for ads, promotion, collateral and brochures, catalogs and other print materials. The promotions range from point-of-sale, sweepstakes and games, FSI couponing, premium incentive development, catalogs and sales brochures/sell-ins, etc.

Hardware: Power Mac G4 450mhz w/CD rom, 20gb hd, 1.12 GB ram; Iomega Zip drive; Iomega Jaz drive; Umax color scanner; 12"x12" Wacom Drawing Tablet; 21" color monitor. Printer: Epson Stylus Pro XL color high resolution ink jet.

Software: Adobe Illustrator 10.02; Adobe Dimensions 3.0; Adobe Photoshop 7; Adobe Streamline 4.0; Fractal Design Painter 5.0; and Quark XPress 5; Vector Effects; KAI's Power Tools 3.0, 5.0 and 6.0.

Hourly Rate: Design, art direction & desktop services- $65.00 or estimated on a per project basis.
Computer illustration-priced competitively per project.

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