Creative Director
Experience
Freelance Creative Director/Copywriter & Consultant Chicago, IL
March 1999 to Present
• Manage, write, and design strategic marketing projects that include collateral,
advertising, direct mail, promotions, newsletters, and websites for a variety of
marketing firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations
• Manage public relations from releases to media relations
• Hire and supervise staff as needed
• Conduct client presentations and manage budgets
• Won awards for Rush-Copley Medical Center ad campaigns
Director, Marketing & Public Relations • National Poetry Slam Championship, Chicago
Aug 1999 & Aug 2003
• Responsible for planning and implementing a program that included advertising, public
relations, promotions for non-profit, five-day international poetry competition
• With a minimal budget and a staff of 14 volunteers achieved full capacity at six local
venues
• Achieved placement of stories in the Washington Post, New York Times, and on 60
Minutes and NPR. Local print and broadcast media included the Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Q101, WTTW, WGN-TV and WLS-TV.
Creative Supervisor • Frankel, Chicago, IL • Dec 1997 to Mar 1999
• Managed creative strategic marketing projects that included POP, sweepstakes,
outdoor advertising and product for Target Stores
• Hired and supervised staff of art directors and copywriters
• Created seasonal and vendor-sponsored promotions with Disney™, DreamWorks™
and Mattel™ products.
Copywriter • Storandt Pann Margolis & Partners, Western Springs, IL
May 1993 to Dec 1997
• Created print and broadcast advertising, promotions, websites, direct mail, videos
and collateral from concept development through production for healthcare,
business-to-business and consumer clients
• Won 1996 Healthcare Advertising Merit Awards for Saint Thomas Hospital
(Tennessee) and Port Huron Hospital
(Michigan) campaigns.
Additional Experience
Five years as a copywriter with Bell & Howell Document Management Division
Three years as marketing manager/writer with Savlin/Petertil, a graphic design firm in Evanston, IL
One year as a freelance copywriter with Rand McNally.
Tech
Proficient in Word, InDesign, Acrobat, PowerPoint and social media apps. Working knowledge of Illustrator, WordPress, QuickBooks, Photoshop, and Excel.