Experience

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  Euro RSCG Life

  • Vice President/Creative Director

    • Jan 1997 - Present

    Responsible for managing Creative output for all agency clients across all media. Special interest in branding through integrating traditional and new media.

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  SMW Advertising

  • SVP/Director of Creative Technology

    • Jan 1996 - Oct 1996

    Overall responsibility for educating agency senior management, staff and clients in emerging digital media. -Co ordinated production teams and oversaw Creative Direction and digital design for first Lexus website.-Guest lecturer at Queen's University in Digital Media in the Advertising Agency.-Advertising and computer graphics use in an Advertising Agency featured in popular university text- Canadian Advertising in Action published by Prentice Hall(6 editions)-Guest speaker on Macintosh computers in an advertising agency creative department -Apple /Kodak Digital Symposium 1994.-Brokered agency agreement with Kodak Canada Digital to use the agency as a beta test site for all new digital products(cameras, printers etc)

  • SVP/Associate Creative Director

    • 1981 - 1996

    Shared responsibility with the Creative Director on managing the agency creative department art direction efforts on Apple, Nikon, Ontario Tourism,Ferrero Roche,Foodland Ontario, Lexus, Hewlett Packard, Astra Pharma, Ely Lilly, Novo Nordisk. Member of the agency Board of Directors.

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  CossetteCommunications

  • VP Senior Art Director

    • 1986 - 1987

    Responsible for creative branding concepts and art direction execution on Air Canada launch of Executive Class,Esso,General Motors Import Division( Corporate logo, dealer signage and product advertising)