Experience.

Freshworks

Global Director, Creative Campaigns & Video / 2022 - present
Lead 30-person international creative team and production studio. Develop strategy and concepts for global campaigns and video content. Oversee execution, partnering with external agencies and production partners as needed. Proud ‘kudumba’ member.

Huge

Executive Creative Director, Southeast / 2019-2021
Led integrated marketing creative across Atlanta and DC offices. Member of the regional executive leadership team. Earned unofficial title of “Work Dad*.”
Airheads, Brooks Running, CareFirst BCBS, Centura Health, CES, The Home Depot, JBSS (Fisher Nuts, Squirrel Nuts), Period Movement, Sotheby’s International Realty, TikTok

Executive Creative Director / 2017-2019
Grew the integrated marketing creative team in DC to include social strategy and planning. Joined executive leadership team. Dubbed “The professor who never gives out an A.”
Allergan, Centura Health, CES, U.S. Department of Education, Eli Lilly, Everytown for Gun Safety, Hooha, Lyft, Magic Leap, Merck, U.S. Bank

Group Creative Director / 2014-2017
Bootstrapped and led integrated marketing creative discipline at the DC office of Huge. Briefly met FLOTUS.
AARP, Audi, Department of Education, Lyft, NPR, Pfizer, The White House

Pappas Group/DMI

Content Director / 2012-2014
Established content discipline. National creative director of campaigns and marketing. Member of Executive Board. Sheep dipped in digital-first design.
AARP, African Wildlife Foundation, Aol, Audi, Hilton, NCTA, Volkswagen, XO

Arnold Worldwide

SVP, Creative Director / 2007-2012
Led day-to-day creative out of DC office while serving as collaborative member on teams/projects out of Boston HQ. Some light drywall work as well.
Amtrak, CFP Board, Fidelity, Huntington Bank, The Islands of the Bahamas

Associate Creative Director / 2003-2006
Creative lead and copywriter on select accounts. Tom Hanks performed a script of mine.
Amtrak, BBC America, Colonial Williamsburg, McDonald’s, Molson Coors

Copywriter / 1997-2002
My first real break in advertising. Earned my SAG-AFTRA card too.
Chevy Chase Bank, DeWalt, ExxonMobil, Hyatt, McDonald’s, SAP

Recognition.

Awards
ADC, Cannes, Clio, Communication Arts, Effies, One Show, Shortys, Webbys and a lot-lot of Addys.

Speaking/Lectures
Cannes Festival of Creativity, ADWK/DC, Georgetown University, VCU

Press
AdAge, Adland, Adweek, Campaign, Communication Arts, Creativity Online, The Drum, Fast Company, Glamour UK, Huffington Post, The New York Times, People Magazine, PSFK, TBS World’s Funniest Commercials, Trend Hunter, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired

Education.

Carnegie Mellon University / B.A. / double major in creative and professional writing

*What’s a ‘Work Dad’?