Creative Director with 25+ years building brands, leading multidisciplinary teams, and turning business challenges into memorable creative ideas. Experience spans national and global brands including Lenovo, Denny’s Restaurants, LG Electronics, GE, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Chick-fil-A, and Cingular Wireless. Equally comfortable setting the creative vision, presenting to senior clients, mentoring teams, and staying hands-on from concept through production.

SKILLS

• Creative Direction & Brand Strategy

• Concept Development

• Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Integrated Campaign Development

• Client Presentations & New Business

• Video / Broadcast / Content Production

• Experiential & Digital Creative

• Art Direction & Graphic Design

• Adobe Creative Suite / Figma

• AI-Enabled Creative Development

EDUCATION

BFA, Graphic Design., Western Carolina University

EXPERIENCE

Cargo - Creative Director | 2017–Present

Lead creative development across integrated campaigns, digital experiences, video, experiential and emerging technology for clients including Lenovo, LG Electronics, Mercedes-Benz Vans, and GE. Manage and mentor multidisciplinary teams while remaining actively involved in concepting, design and client presentations.

ZWO - Creative Director | 2015–2017

Erwin Penland - Group Creative Director | 2011–2015
Led creative for Denny’s Restaurants, managing a multidisciplinary team delivering national brand work across broadcast, social, menus, merchandising and point-of-sale.

Brunner — Associate Creative Director | 2007–2011

BBDO — Senior Art Director | 2003–2007

Sawyer Riley Compton 2000 - 2003

Henderson Advertising 1996 - 2000

SELECTED RECOGNITION

One Show

Communication Arts Annual

Cannes