CREATIVE DIRECTOR | BRAND LEADERSHIP | ART DIRECTION

Creative & Brand Leader

Creative leadership that connects strategy, craft, teams, and business performance.

Creative and brand leader with 18 years of experience directing integrated campaigns, brand systems, digital experiences, and multidisciplinary teams across enterprise retail, e-commerce, B2B SaaS, aviation, and consulting. I translate business priorities and audience insight into distinctive creative work, then build the teams and systems required to deliver it at scale.

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18 Years

Creative, brand, and design experience.

13

Maximum Direct Reports

$7M

Attributed Campaign Revenue

42M+

Campaign Impressions

Additional results include a 136% increase in production capacity and a 56% reduction in project timelines.

What I Lead

Creative Direction & Integrated Campaigns

Concept development, creative strategy, art direction, visual storytelling, and integrated execution across digital, social, retail, email, video, performance, print, environmental, and experiential channels.

Brand Strategy and Systems

Brand positioning, visual identity, messaging frameworks, brand guidelines, design systems, governance, digital brand experience, and scalable tools that create consistency across customer touchpoints.

Art Direction & Design Leadership

Hands-on creative judgment across typography, composition, visual systems, digital design, campaign craft, photography and motion direction, critique, and quality standards.

Teams, Operations, and Scale

Multidisciplinary team leadership, coaching, agency and contractor direction, resource planning, creative operations, workflow design, governance, and production systems built to improve both creative quality and delivery.

Selected Work

A selection of work demonstrating integrated campaign leadership, brand systems, enterprise-scale execution, and measurable business impact.

Building Brand and Digital Systems in Parallel

CompanyCam

Led brand strategy and design-system direction during a compressed leadership transition, translating customer and stakeholder research into a clearer brand foundation while guiding a scalable website system from Craft to Webflow.

4 Weeks
Initial Sprint
2 Workstreams
Brand + Website
9 Areas
Cross-Channel Audit

Making Fast Delivery a Brand Advantage

The Home Depot Delivery Landing Page

Led creative strategy and digital experience for a $16M campaign repositioning fast delivery as a core customer value proposition across digital, retail, and performance channels.

$16M
Campaign Supported
42M+
Impressions
$7M+
Attributed Revenue

Scaling Enhanced Content Across 300,000 Product Pages

The Home Depot Product Experience

Owned the end-to-end creation and implementation of Amazon A+ type inline content across more than 300,000 product pages within approximately two months.

300K+
Product Pages
2 Month
Rollout
Scalable
API-Driven
Templates

Building a Global Brand Experience

Delta Air Lines

Developed global brand, advertising assets, digital and print signage, environmental, and experiential creative. Led digital and print wayfinding signage for 350+ airports.

350+
Airports
Global
USA, EMEA, LATAM
Partners
Agency Support

Creative Leadership Beyond the Work

I have led multidisciplinary teams of up to 13 across design, 3D, project management, business operations, web, video, multimedia, and brand enablement. My leadership experience spans hiring, mentoring, critique, development planning, creative standards, organizational design, agency direction, executive presentations, and cross-functional partnership.

Build Strong Creative Teams

Create clear expectations, provide substantive critique, develop talent, and give people ownership appropriate to their strengths and growth.

Connect Creative and Business Leadership

Translate creative decisions into audience, customer, operational, and business terms for senior stakeholders across Marketing, Product, UX, Engineering, Merchandising, and executive leadership.

Build Systems That Protect Quality at Scale

Established creative operating models that increased production capacity by 136% and reduced project timelines by 56% while maintaining creative standards.

Creative Technology and Modern Workflows

I use technology to extend creative capability, from generative AI and automation to APIs, design systems, and custom development. I have integrated ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, JavaScript, and API-based workflows into creative production, and independently developed a Node.js-based ideation platform using ChatGPT and Claude. The objective is practical: accelerate exploration and repetitive production while preserving human creative judgment and brand quality.

Experience Across Enterprise, Growth-Stage, and Global Brands

CompanyCam | The Home Depot | Delta Air Lines | Independent Creative Direction

Career progression spanning senior design craft, art direction, enterprise creative leadership, independent brand strategy, and Director-level brand leadership across B2B and B2C organizations.

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