about

 

My career began with 15+ years working at design firms and advertising agencies, including Doner's headquarters in Detroit, the San Francisco office of Grey Advertising, and two other SF Bay Area boutique agencies.

 

While art direction and design were always my main responsibilities, I was fortunate enough to come up through the ranks at companies where strategic, "big idea" thinking was a priority, which meant my copywriting skills were always encouraged and developed.

 

During the final ten of those agency years, I was either a Creative Director or — for the last six — EVP of Creative at Jamison Cawdrey Advertising, overseeing a staff of 14. 

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I made the jump to gig-economy freelancer during the dot com boom of 2000, when the entrepreneurial zeitgeist of Silicon Valley yielded abundant opportunities to work with pioneering start-ups building brave new brands.

 

Longstanding relationships with Nestlé USA and several other food & beverage companies have resulted in specialized expertise in those business categories, along with the others shown below.

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Highlighting my background and degree in Drawing & Painting, this site's Illustration and Infographics sections show examples of recent artwork created using both digital and traditional techniques.

 

( For the more artsy stuff, there's a separate site here. )