Experience

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Image Wranglers/Colin Nekritz, Creative Principal New York/Global   2000 - present

Thought leadership, creative, art, and brand direction. Print, online, and interactive campaign strategy for a range of clients and projects great and small,

Brands: The Home Depot, Entergy, Wegmans, SUNY, Georgia Tech, CDC, Innovative Foods, Progressive Gourmet, Oswego Health, Corbis, Women’s Refugee Commission, World Rabies Day, Public Health Group, EquaGen

Seven Worldwide, Creative Director Atlanta   1999 – 2000

Directed team who developed web sites, interactive, publications, trade shows, and full international brand marketing deployments.

Brands: Philips, The Coca-Cola Company, Motorola, Delta, Wachovia, SunFirst, UPS

The Coca-Cola Company, Designer Atlanta   1997 – 1999

Developed, designed and created layouts of a variety regional and international artwork, which included promotional, point-of-sale, packaging, guidelines, and other renowned product pieces.

Brands: The Coca-Cola Company, Diet Coke, Sprite, SURGE, POWERaDE, BonAqua

Adobe Systems Incorporated, Designer Seattle   1995 – 1997

Worked in synergetic teams with engineers, writers, editors and designers in creating multiple-piece projects in print, audio, video and on-line guides.

Brands: Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, PageMill, InDesign

ARTS

Nelson Odeon - Artistic and Brand Director, Promoter

The Music Hall - Art Director, Artistic Committee, Promoter

ARTSwego - Art Director, Strategist, Ticketing and Box Office Support

Atlanta Music Midtown - Artist Support and Media Relations

Bumpershoot - Artist Support and Liason

EDUCATION

SUNY Oswego, Oswego, New York, 1991 BFA
Graphic Design, Psychology, Design Theory, Painting, Calligraphy

University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1996
Classes for HTML, Web Theory

Adobe Certified Expert (ACE)

Other Ongoing Skill Development
HOW Conferences, AIGA Conferences (GAIN), others

SKILLS

Branding, it’s positioning, identity guidelines, and Web 2.0 in terms of technology’s march towards the interrelationship of consumer brand awareness.
Technical skills include: Adobe Creative Suite 5 (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere, AfterEffects], Apple iWork and FinalCut Pro. Microsoft Office. Google Docs. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS 3, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, RSS, and XML.
Paid speaker: Branding, content, technology pundit/musings, mixed with humor.

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