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Resume

Experience

8/2017 to current

Senior Creative Director

ebbo (Clarus Commerce)

Rocky Hill, CT

Leadership & Strategic Vision

  • Direct a cross-functional team of in-house UI designers, UX architects, content creators, A/B testing managers, product marketing specialists, and video/animation producers—to deliver cohesive branded digital and print campaigns across all business lines, including agency clients, DTC, and B2B, while fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

 

Creative Strategy & Brand Development

  • Establish and implement brand guidelines and storytelling frameworks, elevating clients visual identity and voice across all channels. These high-impact campaigns have significantly boosted customer engagement for high-profile clients such as Bread Financial/NFL, Lowe’s, Subway, FYE, Signet Jewelers, Lane Bryant, Johnson & Johnson, ColdWater Creek, Laura Geller, Full Beauty Brands and more.

  • Lead the entire creative process from start to finish—crafting compelling creative briefs, driving conceptual brainstorming, providing strategic design feedback, executing hands-on design, and delivering polished final concepts with impact.

 

User Experience & Data-Driven Testing

  • Champion data-driven A/B testing initiatives for loyalty clients, optimizing acquisition landing page campaigns for maximum impact and ROI that exceed KPI targets by achieving +30% wins in conversion rates.

  • Execute user-centered design approaches by leveraging data insights, contributing to actionable design improvements in the user journey. Develop UX design systems to streamline design workflows.

 

Operational Excellence & Process Optimization

  • Oversee a multi-million dollar budget for marketing tools, managing vendor relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring resource alignment with strategic goals.

  • Implemented an agile JIRA workflow, creating a sprint and backlog system to enhance team capacity and efficiency facilitating 200+ unique project tasks monthly; provide detailed reporting on performance metrics.

7/2014 to 8/2017

Creative Director

KnockMedia

New Haven, CT

  • Director of agency UX, design and video teams producing elite digital marketing experiences.

  • Integral member of the management team actively engaged in shaping business-critical decisions regarding projects, cash flow requirements, and staffing considerations.

  • Built Google Analytics dashboards for clients to deliver trackable, traceable and actionable results.

  • Conducted compelling pitch presentations to key client stakeholders, showcasing project concepts, and proposing strategic digital marketing plans.

  • Mentored college students on UX/UI best practices through semester long internships in our New Haven office.

6/2011 to 7/2014

Art Director

Schneider Electric

West Kingston, RI

  • Worked directly with business stakeholders to determine campaign strategy (messaging and positioning), go-to-market assets and scope of works.

  • Traveled internationally to meet with key clients for customer case studies. Art directed local French and ASO photographers for Paris Marathons.

  • Team resource manager responsible for reviewing projects, assigning design resources and art directing final assets.

  • Accountable for assuming the lead role on projects, conceptualizing ideas, providing art direction, guiding photo direction, executing creative design, and overseeing projects through completion. 

  • Spearheaded brainstorming sessions with writers and designers to cultivate original campaign themes.

3/2005 to 5/2011

Senior Web Designer

Henkel Corporation

Rocky Hill, CT

  • Managed the daily activities of (9) designers.

  • Project managed, assigned, scheduled and created time estimates for staff. Main point of contact for all client requests, questions and support.

  • Oversaw relationships, including quoting, with print, web, and contractor staff vendors.

  • Worked with management on direct report performance reviews, staff training plans and yearly budget needs.

  • Web Design: Established strategies for new Henkel product and promotion microsites. Designed and coded websites, forms, templates and email campaigns.

  • Print Design: Delivered comprehensive campaign concepts for: trade show graphics and displays, sell sheets, logos, distributor training and promotional materials, ads, brochures and direct mail.

Professional skillset

Website design

User experience

Wire frames

Print design

Email nurture campaigns

Social campaigns

Testing strategy

User research

Storyboarding

Video direction

Concept development

Client presentations

HTML / CSS

Lucidchart / Balsamiq

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma / Invision

Microsoft Office

Asana / JIRA

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