Career History

Associate Creative Director - AT&T Business, Javelin Agency, Irving, TX • February 2018 - 2022 
Leading the team responsible for the concept, design, and production of keynote, main stage, town hall, and broadcast presentations for AT&T Business executive leadership.

• Hired into a newly created role within the multimedia solutions team; established relationships with chiefs of staff and key internal stakeholders.

• Established workflow for design, review, revision, and approval for this new creative service; successfully on-boarded team and the client to this workflow.

• Designed and produced, on average, 70 presentations a year for domestic and international audiences, including the 3,000+ attendees of the annual business summit.

• Apply design principles and brand guidelines to build a compelling presentation story; clearly communicate complex or intangible technologies.

• Recognized by 2021 AVA Awards with one Platinum award: Motion Graphics Design, and two Gold awards: Digital Marketing, and Display Ad – Animated or Video, January 2021

Tom Venner Creative, Plano, TX • 2017 – 2018
Providing creative direction, branding, graphic design, and production services. 

• Contract creative director for GK3 Capital; increased new business by 150% with custom-designed inbound marketing digital and print collateral.

• Designed, produced, and launched within a six-week deadline the identity and website for TXGPS.org, a new North Texas not-for-profit.

• Increased enrollment by 60 students for HCCvet, a veteran career skills training organization, by designing their branded curriculum collateral.

Creative Director, Provasi Capital (formerly Behringer), Addison, TX • 2015 – 2016
Responsible for the brand standards and design direction of all corporate, sales, and marketing communications.

• Led a five-person in-house task force who succeeded in conceiving and producing the Provasi brand identity within a six-week deadline.

• Achieved a 149% increase in new page views and an 18.6% increase in visitors within 60 days of the launch of the redesigned provasi.com

• Managed a team of nine designers, copywriters, and video editors: reported directly to the chief marketing officer. 

Creative Director, Behringer (formerly Behringer-Harvard), Addison, TX • 2008 – 2015
Managed the in-house design team in the creative direction and production of all corporate sales and marketing collateral.

• Reduced annual collateral fulfillment expenses by 54% by replacing printed, physical inventory with a comprehensive print-on-demand program.

• Achieved, on average, an 80% savings on video production expenses after installing a full-service, on-site video production and editing studio.

• Established the brand’s first proprietary image library; art directed all location photography and managed photo production budgets.

• Directed the re-branding of Behringer Harvard to Behringer to communicate a new corporate mission and vision across print and digital media.

Creative Manager, Capital One, Plano, TX • 2005 – 2008
Managed the creative services team and was the primary contact for marketing, sales, and communications leads.

• Optimized the design and copy of the direct-to-consumer A/B mail test program, reaching over 2.5 million prospects monthly.

• Eliminated inconsistent branding across dealer financing collateral, bringing a unified product and benefits message to existing and prospective clients.

• Executed the design direction and production of all program collateral for the annual national dealer meeting, reaching over 1,500 participants.