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Group Creative Director, The Well, Elevance Health, 7/21 - Present
Helped build and lead internal creative department, bringing external agency production and brand advertising within house in two years
Creative Director, Freelance, 9/20-6/21
Loyal Companion Pet Food Stores
Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, 2/14-8/20
Walgreens, CDW, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Chicago Fire Department Foundation
Associate Creative Director, Cramer Krasselt, 11/12--1/14
Edward Jones, Heinz, Panera, New Business
Senior Copywriter, Leo Burnett, 5/10 – 10/12
Special K, All-Bran, Sprint
Senior Copywriter, Freelance, 6/02-12/10
Energy BBDO; EuroRSCG; J Walter Thompson; Digital Kitchen, Chicago, IL, Odyssey Network,
Winston-Salem, NC
Samsung, LaSalle Bank, Valspar, Illinois Tourism, Macy’s
Senior Copywriter, McConnaughy, Tatham & Partners, Chicago, IL, 1/01-6/02
Walgreens, First Health, New Business
Copywriter, 07/00-12/00, McConnaughy, Stein, Schmidt & Brown, Chicago, IL
Walgreens, Old Kent Bank, New Business
AWARDS
Effie’s
DA&D
Communication Art's
Webby
LIA
ADDY’S
Ad Age
Print Magazine
Reggie Award
The Atlantic Writing Contest Finalist
FICTION
Family Man, Confrontation
Black Ice, Logan Square Literary Review
I Can Tell You’re Good People, Prism International, The Atlantic Student Contest Finalist
Preservation, Upstreet No. 9
Shannon Takes It Hard, Calyx
EXHIBITIONS
Emily Dickinson Text off the Page Exhibit; Roger Brown Study Collection
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Fine Arts Degree, Writing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism, Advertising Sequence