Operations Manager

The Perlman Music Program/Suncoast, 2019-2020 Season

Executive Producer & Business Affairs

First Abu Dhabi Bank(FAB)/Ad Agency: StrawberryFrog

Executive Producer, Business Affairs & Talent Management

SunTrust Bank/Ad Agency: StrawberryFrog

Production & Talent Management

SunTrust Bank/Ad Agency: StrawberryFrog

 Executive Producer & Business Affairs

European Wax Center/Ad Agency: StrawberryFrog

. Oversight of brand production. Produced CGI products for Strut 365 launch. 

Event Coordinator

Tall Ships Challenge®/Village of Greenport, NY.  2015

4 days, 6 Tall Ships,  approximately 80,000 visitors. This drone film was put together by Andrew LePre and shows the arrival of L'Hermione an exact replica of the ship Lafayette sailed to America in 1780.

Executive Producer

Human Rights Watch "Burma"/Ad Agency: J. Walter Thompson (JWT)

This interactive installation was a one day event held in Grand Central Station, New York City in June 2010.  The project collected over 1000 signatures from 86 countries contributing to the release of 150 political prisoners. To see a list of that day's events click here.

The advertising industry recognized the installation by honoring it with 4 Cannes Gold Lions, a Bronze Cannes Lion and 12 other industry awards in 2011.

As Executive Producer, I was honored to work hands-on with an exceptional group of people from Human Rights Watch and JWT New York, including the JWT creative team Roy Wisnu and Chris Swift, and Executive Creative Director Andy Clarke. This project will always hold a special place in my heart.

To collect more signatures, the team produced this online petition in the spirit of the installation.

Director of Integrated Production Management

DTC "Unbreakable Kiss"/Ad Agency: J. Walter Thompson

The venerable advertising agency J. Walter Thompson not only changed its name to JWT while I was there, but was fiercely determined to move into the digital marketing space shedding its reputation as an old school agency. Digital advertising had arrived. To see (then Chief Creative Officer) Ty Montague's comments about what was happening at JWT New York at that time, and this project in particular, click here. **

Part of the change was a mandate to bring the production department together as a whole (Broadcast/Digital-Interactive/Art Buying/Print) and assemble teams to produce creative work in a non-traditional way. As DIPM, I was charged with overseeing and mentoring the integrated production specialty teams.

"Unbreakable Kiss" for the client Diamond Trading Company was the first "JWT" wholly integrated project. The producers Angela Buck, Lauren Eberhardt, Kathryn Leo and Sara Clark did outstanding work together. Their dedicated collaboration with the rest of the DTC team at JWT/New York paid off. 

The project raised over $50,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, was a great success with the public who were happy to line up for their photo ops. The event won two Bronze Cannes Lions in 2009, for Direct and Cyber.

And of course, I had to experience the Unbreakable Kiss first hand!

Director of Integrated Production Management

Microsoft  "Because It's Everybody's Business"/Ad Agency: JWT

As DIPM at JWT New York, I managed the integrated production teams working cross-platform on all new business pitches/RFPs. 

Microsoft's arrival at the agency proved to be an acid test for the "new integrated JWT." For the very first time, the digital group was taking the production leadership reins of a 360° campaign for the biggest client in the agency. 

The campaign was titled "Because Its Everybody's Business." The creative concept was based on interviewing and animating top corporate executives around the world discussing the demands of the global marketplace and the role of IT business solutions. 

My task was to oversee a new integrated production workflow process. The team was comprised of Digital, TV, Print, Art Buying and the in-house studio, JWTwo.

Each department had to produce their own work and at the same time deliver key elements essential to the creation of the digital side of the campaign. We had to launch TV commercials, print ads and 5 digital global campaigns in over 32 international markets, along with 2 national digital campaigns, under a challenged timeline, simultaneously.

Partnering with Executive Interactive Producer Alex Moseman, we met with the extensive Microsoft production team. Although they all worked in the same ad agency in production, many had never met each other. With collaboration an essential ingredient, we mapped out the nuts and bolts of this (at the time) unique production grid. The implemented production workflow system stayed on track, yet remained flexible and responsive to perpetual changes in the pipeline.

The campaign was awarded Cannes Lions in 2010: Titanium and Integrated Bronze. The case study showing the cross-platform work is below.

Director of Integrated Production Management

@JWTBBQ @ SXSW/Internal project: JWT

As Director of Integrated Production Management at JWT New York, I also supervised internal JWT corporate projects and managed internal film shoots.

@JWTBBQ is an example of a project where I did both. It is also a rare example of a JWT corporate project that actually engaged the public, and was not just part of an internal presentation or new business pitch.

The idea was simple. Create a presence at SXSW Festival for JWT New York that was outside the obvious. What could be simpler than hungry SXSW attendees tweeting the JWT truck to come to their location around downtown Austin so they could chow down on free Salt Lick BBQ? 

As usual, it took a lot of talented people working in and around their "day jobs" to create and produce the event, the website and the teaser video. For credits click here. Case study below.

This odd little video was released prior to SXSW upping anticipation for the free BBQ giveaway.