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​ABOUT


Creative director and experiential designer with training in architecture. 15+ years experience across retail, exhibit, event, visual marketing, branding, environmental, and product design. Solutions oriented and collaborative manager who thrives in fast-paced environments.

Brands include: Verizon, Target, Google, Apple, Nike, Ugg, Ferrari, Saks, Macy's, Tory Burch
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EDUCATION

Tulane University School of Architecture
Master of Architecture '08
Bachelor of Architecture '08

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business
​Minor in Business Studies

​Distinguished Scholars Award ​

​SKILLS


DIGITAL:
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Rhino, AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3D Studio Max, Vector Works, Cinema 4D, Word, Excel, Power Point, Keynote,

PHYSICAL:
Photography, Site Documentation, Drawing, Sketching, Painting, Installation, Site Supervision, Project Management, Team Management

​AWARDS / RECOGNITION

Shapiro Family Fellowship (2011)

The Special Event (2011)
Best Booth: Powerstation

Immersive Design: A Festival Experience (2011)

Published through LAP Lambert Academic Publishing.
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WHO I'VE WORKED WITH:
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EXPERIENCE

FREELANCE (2016 - Present)
Designer/Creative Director
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• Conceptualize and design environments and graphics for wide range of clients and projects.
• Work with client to ensure proper design direction and communicate timeframe for deliverables.
• Created renderings, presentations, and production files for several of Event Marketers top 100 event agencies and top 50 fabrication shops using Rhino and Adobe Suite.
• Work with client and designers to create environments and messaging that align with brand identity.
• Successfully completed hundreds of jobs including events, exhibits, trade show booths, POP displays, wayfinding/environmental design, and product design.

CIVIC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP (2022 - 2023)
Design Director

•  Developed concepts and tactics against client experiential briefs.
•  Helped to solve client’s positioning and marketing challenges for Verizon.
•  Designed and laid out physical spaces and comp graphics in 2D and 3D.
•  Provided input and feedback for interactive, design, graphic, content and production subcontractors.
•   Worked with client’s internal brand compliance team to ensure graphics and environments are in line with brand identity, and messaging.

WASSERMAN EXPERIENTIAL (2021 - 2022)
Senior Art Director

•  Ensured the ideation, creation, and delivery of campaigns that help achieve brand’s marketing objectives.
•  Worked with third party production vendors as well as internal resources to ensure the delivery of quality regardless of medium.
•  Determined experiential, digital, and content consumer channels of project brief.
•  Identified key requirements of each brief in order to develop creative responses.
•  Managed and inspire creative resources to deliver creative product true to concept.
​•  Ideated and presented creative concepts for brands such as Ferrari, Target, and LEGO.

ARSENAL NEW YORK (2017 - 2021)
Design Director

• Responsible for creation and design of retail and experiential environments for fashion brands, retail and department stores, event agencies.
• Work with client to conceptualize, develop, render, and produce wide range of projects.
• Involved with projects from ideation through construction.
• Create decks and presentations in order to facilitate sale and production of jobs.
• Oversee team of designers and freelancers to ensure that all drawings and design deliverables are produced in efficient and timely manner.
• Manage workload of over 50 unique projects per month and coordinate schedule and priorities within design team to ensure prompt deliverables.
• Interact and design drawings with vendors of all trades in order to facilitate production.
• Work in all scales and mediums
• Produce build and installation drawings to be used during production and on site.

RIPCO (2015 - 2016)
Senior Designer

• Worked with team of designers, architects, and brokers to create material to aid in sale and rental of high-end retail properties.
• Designed before and after renderings of existing properties to help in visualization of brands within the prospective spaces.
• Created high-quality presentation material containing custom maps, graphics, photography, and renderings.

FOURTH WALL EVENTS (now known as McVeigh Global) (2013 - 2015)
Senior Designer

• Worked with events, sales, and production teams, as well as clients, to visualize and communicate ideas from rough concepts to fully conceived designs.
• Responsible for creation of design concepts and documents including site documentation, 3D renderings, dimensional drawings, production drawings, branding, prints, and other graphic material.
• Created new modular product called FormSet which gained instant industry recognition and became its own company focused on light weight scenic rentals and production.

DOME VOYAGERS LLC (2013)
Intermediate Architect

• Assisted in management and development of renovated multi-story building in Manhattan, and conversion of landmark bank to event space in Brooklyn.
• Created drawing sets and other required documents using AutoCAD.
• Researched and selected vendors for various tasks related to each building.

MOSS EVENTS (formerly Pink Inc.) (2009-2013)
Designer

• Designed tension structures and sculptures used for events, exhibitions, festivals, and installations worldwide.
• Created digital environments and renderings to visualize projects using 3D Studio Max, Rhino, and Adobe Suite.
• Supervised and documented site visits and installations of projects throughout the United States.
• Managed company website and blog and assisted with social media.
• Created marketing material through both digital and print media.

STAV ARCHITECTS (2009)
Intern Architect

• Aided in development and 3D visualization of several projects using Google Sketch Up and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Organized and developed project catalog and accompanying templates.

KOSSAR + GARRY ARCHITECTS (2008)
Junior Architect

• Managed multiple projects in various stages of design and construction.
• Interacted with clients and vendors in order to ensure project efficiency and satisfaction.

TIPITINA'S (2006-2008)
Graphic Designer

• Designed posters and other promotional material for various concerts and events using both manual and digital graphic design techniques.

TULANE URBANBUILD (2006)
Design Development

• Participated in design and development of six prototypes for affordable and sustainable housing in areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
• Surveyed neighborhoods in order to design feasible housing strategies.
• ​Coordinated marketing strategies and proposal presentation boards.

FREELANCE ARTIST (1998 - Present)
Design Development

• Designed and painted over 100 pieces using acrylics, oils, and watercolors techniques.
• Developed and enhanced photography that has been contributed to several sources both digitally and via print.
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    • Carolina Herrera
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    • Balmain
    • Ugg Classic Revolution
    • Creed
  • Experiential
    • Supergoop! Pop Up
    • Science City Explorers @ NY Hall of Science
    • Target Activation @ FAO Schwarz
    • Dermalogica
    • Macy's Flower Show
    • Guess Friends With You
    • Babylist LA Showroom
    • Procter & Gamble
    • Museum of Ice Cream
    • INTER_
    • Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Installation
    • Big Apple Circus
    • Upfronts
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    • Formset
    • Buku Festival
    • Verizon 5G Innovation Sessions
    • Ferrari Challenge
    • Governors Ball
    • Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Halftime
    • Zumba Conference
    • Ribbonesque
    • IBM
    • TedX Wall Street
    • Verizon Incentives
    • Macy's Super Bowl Fashion Show
    • Revolt
    • Formula E
    • Sikorsky
  • Booths
    • Supergoop! Booth
    • Canada Goose
    • Poppi
    • HKSTP
    • Reel Life
    • Clarins
    • Visit Fort Lauderdale
    • Evian
    • Jockey Club
    • Powerstation
  • Art
    • Landscape/Architectural Paintings
    • Abstract Paintings
    • Watercolors
    • Photography
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