Experience

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  Proper Agency - MNL

  • Quezon City Manila

  • Former Co-Founder / Managing Director

    • Nov 2016 - Mar 2024
    • Quezon City Manila

    🔥 Founder, Managing Partner, and Creative Director of Proper, Manila, an independent digital agency that has made a name for itself with clients such as Jeep, The Faceshop, /Bench, Dodge, food panda, and Warner Music. The agency was officially merged with I-Cube, a Japanese conglomerate network, ...

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  Shao

  • Quezon City Manila

  • Former Creative Director ( Founder )

    • Oct 2015 - Nov 2018
    • Quezon City Manila

    🔥 Founded and launched SHAO, a multi-awarded and published brand design studio, on a dare from his peers. Within 3 years, the small studio had been acquired and merged into a larger agency. Using his visual strategic thinking, he has solved design challenges for a wide range of clients in the loc...

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  Canva

  • Design Director / Creative Consultant

    • Aug 2014 - Feb 2015

    🔥 Contracted Design Director at Canva Manila in its early days to help set up, establish, and train the early creatives team and create an initial framework for a design workflow system for the visual catalog users could use.Notable Achievements:✌️Trained and led fresh graduates in the foundation...

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  Ace Saatchi & Saatchi

  • Senior Art Director

    • Jun 2013 - May 2014

    🔥Member of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi's lean pharma team, the smallest but most efficient team in the agency, which contributes the most billable profits and has the biggest business impact. Clients handled during this period include Lactum, Enfagrow, GSK, and SM Podium, among others.

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  DDB Group Asia Pacific

  • Art Director

    • Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

    🔥Member of DDB's "Strike Force," a high-performing pitching team that wins multi-million contracts for the agency with innovative ideas and capabilities. As a major team contributor, led the team to win contracts with Smart Telecom, PLDT, Philippine Airlines, Shang Ri La Malls, and ...

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  Lowe and Partners Worldwide

  • Intern to Junior Art Director

    • Mar 2008 - Apr 2012

    🔥 Started as a determined intern at Mullen Lowe, where he found his passion and ambition for advertising. After a year, he was absorbed as a part-time student and eventually promoted to Art Director before graduating college.As a major young contributor to the agency's biggest brands, includi...