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
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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.
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Improved the quality of creative output, winning an additional fourteen awards in the first year.
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Added creative processes and wrote some things I’m really proud of.
2017-2020: BURNS GROUP, NEW YORK
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Led Columbia Business School, growing flight risk account by 35% in revenue and managing two teams.
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Won and made campaigns for Simmons Sleep, Labatt beer, dntl bar, Betadine, Earth’s Best, Brother and much more.
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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
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Worked on many, many accounts at a creative shop at the height of its game. Volvo, Smuckers, Papa John’s, Lunchables and more.
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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
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Worked on a variety of Kraft and P&G accounts, as well as Google/Motorola and Postmedia News.
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A heady mix of brand positioning and naming.
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I also handled all their strategy needs, leading workshops and developing strategic positionings.
2011-12: RKCR/Y&R, LONDON
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Worked on Virgin Atlantic, Volvic water, Government Awareness Campaigns, the BBC and Vodafone.
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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
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Three WPP agencies, three roles, three cities, three years.
2010-11: LUMBERJACK, RURAL FRANCE
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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
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Bachelor's degree in History from Oxford University.





