Education

Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

Experience

Senior Art Director
Ace Hardware, Oakbrook IL
March 2025 – Current

Lead art direction and hands-on design for national integrated campaigns across digital, social, email, print, presentations and experiential. Concept and develop creative from initial idea through presentation and execution, including campaign concepts, layouts, logos and visual systems.

  • Pilot and implement Microsoft Copilot as an AI-powered creative partner to accelerate strategic thinking, concept development, design exploration, and creative storytelling from brief to final execution.

  • Help optimize Ace’s Brandfolder ecosystem, including AI-assisted tagging and search strategies to improve asset discoverability and workflow efficiency.

  • Led photo art direction for FY25 Father’s Day Gifting, from concept and art direction through on-set production.

  • Led FY25 Holiday and FY25-26 Summer Grilling campaigns, developing scalable visual systems across channels.

Associate Creative Director
Walgreens Co., Chicago, IL
June 2024–October 2024

Selected by creative leadership to manage and lead Brand & Campaigns creative team. Support the Creative Director in development and execution of creative vision for omni-channel seasonal campaigns, packaging redesign initiatives and storytelling content. Manage resourcing, careers and morale of direct reports.

  • Established FY26 Holiday merchandising design guide and trend report.

  • Led creative direction of retail campaigns, including FY24 Back-to-School, FY25 Easter and FY25 Valentine’s Day.

  • Led team in development of packaging redesign for Walgreens owned brand Health and Wellness product line.

  • Developed creative vision of 4-part documentary video series.


Senior Art Director
Walgreens Co., Chicago, IL
January 2022–Current

Art director of film and content studio for Walgreens. Created and directed award-winning campaign design, video, animation, illustration, and photography. Collaborated with external creative agencies and contractors to bring Walgreens content to market. Promoted from Sr. Graphic Designer to Sr. Art Director.

  • Led creative vision of Walgreens owned brand beauty personal care packaging redesign.

  • Led the creative direction of omni-channel seasonal campaigns, including FY24 Summer and FY24 Back-to-School.

  • Led the development and launch of in-house video production studio with external WPP agency partners.

  • Selected by creative leadership to be a primary art director for the 2024 overhaul of Walgreens brand and visual identity.

  • Developed the first branded video style guide for the enterprise.

  • Art directed award-winning video content series, “Shelf Life”.


Senior Graphic Designer
Walgreens Co., Chicago, IL
September 2017–January 2022

Created email marketing campaigns and site creative for Walgreens Photo. Art directed photo/video shoots, animated video and developed creative for Walgreens social channels.

  • Art directed and created over 15 animated videos for Walgreens customer rewards program (Balance Rewards).

  • Led art direction and design of 2017 and 2018 holiday social media campaigns, including on-location art direction of productions shot at various locations around the United States.

  • Selected by creative leadership to redesign the migration of Walgreens Tumblr site to a robust branded blog called The Thread, collaborating in an agile environment with UX and development.


Art Director
Geometry Global, Chicago, IL
April 2017–September 2017

Led art direction of retail marketing campaigns for Unilever and Dannon brands.

  • Art directed and designed retailer-specific displays and offers featuring partnerships with Disney, National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS).

  • Developed key visual for Dannon campaign highlighting new product flavors.

  • Managed summer creative interns.


Graphic Designer (Contractor)
Walgreens Co., Chicago, IL
March 2016–March 2017

Art directed and designed Walgreens content for owned digital and social media channels. Produced content for all Walgreens business units, including Pharmacy, Beauty, Photo, and retail.

  • Directed, shot, and animated campaign videos for Walgreens social channels supporting the launch of the Walgreens Photo website as well as Summer Beauty and Seasonal Holiday campaigns.

  • Led art direction of 2016 Holiday photoshoot—lifestyle and product photography.

  • Shot and retouched in-house product photography for Walgreens social media channels and website.


Associate Art Director
PrairieFire Communications, Mt. Prospect, IL
March 2011–March 2016

Designed and art directed campaigns and marketing materials for a range of B2B and B2C clients.

  • Designed and managed updates to a 150+ page academic catalog for Chamberlain College of Nursing – a catalog used by over 25K students and faculty and staff.

  • Primary art director for national flooring company, Empire Today, responsible for the design of marketing materials and sales tools.

  • Selected to support new business pitch work.


Tools & Technology

Design & Prototyping

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Figma

  • Miro

AI & Emerging Technology

  • Microsoft Copilot

  • Copilot Agents

  • Adobe Firefly

  • ChatGPT

  • Claude

Brand & Workflow

  • Brandfolder

  • Workfront

  • Wrike

Collaboration

  • Microsoft 365

  • Microsoft Teams

  • FigJam

  • Slack