Art Director/Creative Director
Career summary—Creative leader with two decades of experience hiring, mentoring, collaborating, and concepting with integrated agency teams to create brands, digital experiences, and campaigns that delight and move people.
Professional Experience:
Creative Director, April 2024 – January 2025
MESH Interactive Agency, Boston, MA
Serve as part of agency leadership while directing creative, user experience, and technology teams made of internal and contract resources
Vet and learn new AI and technology tools to help streamline agency process
Made strategic recommendations and executed agency brand refresh and website redesign
Art Director, April 2021 – November 2023
Matter, Newburyport, MA
Key member of team that grew the creative department from 6 to 20+ employees in less than 3 years
Built agency user experience offerings from scratch resulting in dozens of website launches over 4+ years
Oversee integrated creative project teams from business development phase to launch while being the face of the creative department to clients
Hire, manage, and mentor designers, developers, and project managers
Senior Graphic and Interactive Designer, April 2019 – April 2021
Matter, Boston/Newburyport, MA
Lead UX and visual design for top agency web clients
Introduced UX, design thinking principles, and component-based design systems to agency process
Drive UX and visual presentations and discussions with clients and stakeholders
Senior Designer, January 2015 – April 2019
ThinkArgus, Boston, MA
Art directs and designs agency projects for both print and digital with a strong focus on strategy and execution.
Creative and IA/UX lead on all digital projects.
Writes, designs, and participates in new business pitches and creative presentations.
Rebuilt IA/UX workflow from the ground up.
Creative Director, October 2012 – December 2014
MESH Interactive Agency
Directed and mentored creative team of designers and illustrators
on all agency projects.Designed UI/UX and established art direction for top agency clients.
Lead creative presentations to clients and prospects.
Served as part of agency senior management team, making strategic
and financial decisions for direction of the agency.
Senior Interactive Designer, April 2011 – October 2012
MESH Interactive Agency, Manchester, NH/Boston, MA
Designed core creative of all client projects and oversaw full brand development of deliverables.
Communicated project objectives to mid-level and junior design team.
Worked with clients and team members to ensure sound branding/marketing strategy, search engine optimization, and social media integration were planned and executed on all projects.
Envisioned and implemented successful new creative workflow for agency.
Senior Graphic Designer, March 2008 – 2011
MarketReach, Inc. Nashua, NH
Responsible for the day-to-day management of design department and creative projects.
Produced and directed eye-catching, brand compliant creative designs for Fortune 500 agency clients in industries such as technology, healthcare, professional services and pharmaceuticals.
Attended meetings and conference calls with clients to develop strategic creative direction and timelines for projects.
Lead brainstorming sessions that produced creative concepts based on predetermined strategies.
Education—Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, May 2003. Dean’s List.
Technical Proficiency—Experienced knowledge of Sketch, Invision, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Keynote. Working knowledge of Figma, WordPress and PowerPoint. Understanding of the principles and functionality of HTML5/CSS3, jQuery and javascript and how they integrate with design.
Additional experience in photography, image retouching, motion graphics, digital illustration and copywriting.