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Let’s make great things together.

I win business, I grow business, I lead teams, I have a Green Card.  Ambitious and thoughtful agency creative director/writer with a grounding in strategy.

 

2020-PRESENT: DARLING BRAND MAKERY, ST. LOUIS

  • Created new brand positions and campaigns for Toppers Pizza, the APA Adoption Center, The Watering Bowl, Lake Regional Healthcare System, St. Louis Boxing Club, and so much more. 

  • Improved the quality of creative output, winning an additional fourteen awards in the first year. 

  • Added creative processes and wrote some things I’m really proud of.

 

2017-2020: BURNS GROUP, NEW YORK

  • Led Columbia Business School, growing flight risk account by 35% in revenue and managing two teams. 

  • Won and made campaigns for Simmons Sleep, Labatt beer, dntl bar, Betadine, Earth’s Best, Brother and much more. 

  • Managing from the front, creating work I’m proud of, pitching like an animal and notorious for making clients cry with a brand manifesto or anthem spot.

 

2013-16: GREY, NEW YORK

  • Worked on many, many accounts at a creative shop at the height of its game. Volvo, Smuckers, Papa John’s, Lunchables and more. 

  • We won Agency of the Year twice while I was there—this obviously had very little to do with me, we were a 1200-person agency and I was in my 20s. It sounds good, though.

 

2012-13: LANDOR, CHICAGO

  • Worked on a variety of Kraft and P&G accounts, as well as Google/Motorola and Postmedia News. 

  • A heady mix of brand positioning and naming.

  • I also handled all their strategy needs, leading workshops and developing strategic positionings.

 

2011-12: RKCR/Y&R, LONDON

  • Worked on Virgin Atlantic, Volvic water, Government Awareness Campaigns, the BBC and Vodafone. 

  • It’s where I realized I didn’t want to be a planner—but I also learned an awful lot that makes me a more thoughtful, strategic creative today.

 

2011-14: WPP FELLOW

  • Three WPP agencies, three roles, three cities, three years.

 

2010-11: LUMBERJACK, RURAL FRANCE

  • Extensive experience with axes, chainsaws and sledgehammers. Rather an idiosyncratic French vocabulary as a result. I also worked in a youth hostel in Berlin for a few months.

 

EDUCATION

  • Bachelor's degree in History from Oxford University. 

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