RESUME

Objective:

Produce effective, creative content through seamless client & internal communication.

Experience:

Freelance Agency & Client Production
Executive Integrated Producer (2014-present)

  • Abelson Taylor: Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Brodalumab 

  • The Brand Salon: Hilton Hotels

  • Real Faces Real Places: Allstate 

  • PepsiCo: Frito-Lay Tostitos 

  • PepsiCo: Frito-Lay Multipack 

  • Merkle Inc: Anthem BCBS 

  • BoomAgers: Procter & Gamble 

  • SPM Marketing & Communications: Emory Healthcare

  • MERGE Chicago: Land O'Frost

ADVERTISING PRODUCTION RESOURCES/DENVER  
Production Supervisor, Practice Leader (2010-2014)

  • Quaker Oats, Tropicana

  • Pizza Hut

  • Corona

  • Choice Hotel Brands

  • Royal Bank of Canada

Managed clients' advertising spend for TV, Print, Digital and OOH. Worked closely with the clients' agency partners and vendors to create a smooth production process. Reviewed all vendor bids and agency estimates to make sure numbers were in line with clients' goals/budget, industry standards and protocols. Helped leverage assets across media to provide a more integrated production process. Effective advocate for on-site company meetings/shoots between client, agency and production company, ensuring team alignment. Practice Leader for agency transitions and client DAM. 

FREELANCE AGENCY PRODUCTION  
Executive Producer (2007-2010)

  • Sponge: AutoZone, Sears Optical

  • Tom, Dick & Harry, Canyon Ranch Resorts

  • Rhea & Keiser, Maxide

ELEMENT 79 PARTNERS/CHICAGO 
Founding Partner, Senior Vice President, Executive Producer (2001-2007) 

  • Quaker Oats Rice Snacks, Cap'n Crunch

  • Long John Silvers

  • Amway Supercuts

  • Children's Memorial Hospital

  • Central DuPage Hospital

  • Hoover

Managed production including producer assignments and training. Represented client and agency to all production and post-production suppliers. Responsible for individual project, campaign, and yearly production budgets. 

FCB/CHICAGO 
Vice President, Executive Producer (1996-2001) 

  • Quaker Oats Cereal & Bars

  • Applebee's

  • Sara Lee

  • John Deere

Managed production, representing agency and client to all production and post-production suppliers. Responsible for individual project, campaign, and yearly production budgets. Formed committee with other executive producers to run production department. 

  • Gatorade

  • Kraft

  • SC Johnson

BAYER BESS VANDERWARKER/CHICAGO 
Vice President, Head of Production, Producer (1987-1996) 

  • Gatorade

  • Quaker Oats Bars & Cereals

  • Motorola Cell Phones

  • Ameritech Corporate Communications

  • Boston Chicken

  • Helene Curtis

  • Mainstreet: Retail Stores

  • Illinois Lottery

Freelance Production Company Producer/Production Manager 
Produced and managed commercial production for local and out-of-town directors and production companies (1981-1987) 

Education: 

The Art Institute of Chicago/Advanced Study in Filmmaking (1979) 
The University of Wisconsin, Madison/BA in Communication and Italian (1980) 

Interests:

Family, "Rosie" our Boxer, Italian language, culture and cuisine. Physical and spiritual health.  
Lists of awards and references available on request.