Career

Experience

The Go2Group – Pawleys Island, SC/Home office

Senior Art Director Feb. 2008-Present

Web Design, Logo Design & design of all printed materials from concept to completion. Sample of some recent work attached. Clients including: DLC Management-Commerical Developer, Florence & Hutcheson-Consulting Engineers, G23-Commercial Developers,Atlanta Galleria, South Carolina Credit Union, The Promenade-Shopping Center Development, East Village-Shopping Center, The Marketplace Mall.

Fishbone Design – From my home office

Self-Employed Freelance Art Director
July 2001-Present

Clients including: Cape Romain Marine & Pawleys Island, DeBordieu Resort, Tri-County Marine Association, Marine GS Magazine Staff Art Director (2003-2004), Edens & Avant Corporate, Sandcastle Resorts, Condo World Resort, Classic Golf Group, Ticketreturn, Webster Henrietta Publishing, Pinnacle Property Films, Damons Restaurant, Moses A. Smith Antiques, Cox Millwork, King George Inn & Richland Mall. Project work done for Marshall Fields, Chicago.

Type of work: Website Design, All printed materials from concept to production including: Brochures, Direct mail, Ads, , Logo design, Stationery packages, Signage & Outdoor. Children’s book for Webster Henrietta Publishing, ”Footprints on the Ceiling,” printing fall 2004.

LHWH Advertising/Public Relations –Myrtle Beach, SC
Art Director
January 2000-July 2001
Art Director responsibilities including but not limited to the design and concept of all direct mail, newspaper, magazine and outdoor advertisements for accounts including; Stamford Health Systems, McLeod Health & Fitness, Celebration Health, Lee Memorial Wellness Center, Select Health, HTC Local & Long distance telephone server & Hampton Inn & Suites Oceanfront. Logo design and collateral for Key Collins Architecture. Miscellaneous direct mail and magazine advertisements for World Tour Golf Course & Legends Golf. Website updates for McLeod  Hospital and McLeod Health & Fitness. Also, in charge of creating Power Point presentations for McLeod Hospital and a corporate overview for Stamford Health Systems in Connecticut.  

Vision One,  Advertising/Public Relations –Charleston, SC 

Art Director

August ‘99–December ‘99

Job responsibilities include: all print, webpage design and production for the agency on all accounts. Client list includes: The Audubon Gallery, Beretta, Bretts Restaurant, Charleston International Ports, Friends of the Hunley, and MP Demetre Jewelers. Initiated an agency system for trafficking jobs. 

Rawle-Murdy Associates, Inc. –Charleston, SC

Full-time Freelance Art Director/Graphic Designer

July ‘98–April ‘99

Design and execution of print materials including: magazine/newspaper print ads, brochures, and in-house marketing packages. Local, national and international clients include: Orient-Express Trains & Hotels including: Charleston Place, The Windsor Court and La Samanna, also McCrady’s Restaurant, The National Golf Course Owners Association, MUSC, Piggly Wiggly and The South Carolina Aquarium.

WestWayne, Inc. –Atlanta, GA

Junior Art Director/Graphic Designer

October ‘97–July ‘98

The largest privately held southeastern advertising agency with billings of $273 million yearly. Accounts I worked on regularly included: BellSouth Corporate, BellSouth Mobility, BellSouth Advertising & Publishing (Yellow Pages), NAPA Autoparts, Simmons Mattresses, Bassett Furniture, Citrus World, SunTrust, Publix and Salem. Responsibilities include: design of newspaper, magazine, outdoor, logos and various other print materials. Also worked closely with the Research & New Business departments to create focus-group presentations.

Fountainhead Advertising –Atlanta, GA

Art Director

May ‘97–July ‘97 (laid-off due to loss of account I was hired to work on)

Placed in the top 20 agencies in Atlanta by the Atlanta Business Chronicle after it’s first year. Worked primarily on The Great American Cookie Company account: designing in-store POP pieces, signage, cups and corporate franchise manuals. Other  clients include: Applebees, Planet Hollywood and Cartoon Network print materials.

MacTemps –Atlanta, GA

Art Director/Graphic Designer

July ‘97–October ‘97

WestWayne, Inc. –Atlanta, GA

Graphic Designer, Studio Associate

October ‘94–May ‘97

Computer Experience 

15 years – Currently running Creative Suite 3 & OS X on privately owned iMac.

Education 

University of South Carolina–Columbia, SC 1987-1993 

Major: Studio Arts, specializing in Graphic Design

Penland School of Craft–Penland, NC – Summer ‘93

Intensive Study of Pottery

Portfolio & References 

Available upon request