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ABOUT
With 15+ years of design experience and 8+ years of art direction, Steve has successfully guided global campaign creative from concept to completion on 70+ films grossing over $2 billion at the worldwide box office. He has gained valuable insight in bringing together world-class brands and feature film properties to create impactful partnerships that drive box office results.
Currently, he works as a Sr. Art Director within the Brand Innovation Lab at Amazon where he enjoys unlocking innovative ways to engage streaming, theatrical, and app consumers on an emotional level through authentic, story-driven content across the Amazon canvas.
MONDAY - FRIDAY
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
ART DIRECTION
KEY ART
SIZZLE REELS
BRANDING DESIGN
MOTION DESIGN
SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT
CAMPAIGN DEVELOPMENT
NARRATIVE BUILDING
STORYBOARDS
COPYWRITING
PACKAGING DESIGN
TYPOGRAPHY
EXPERIENTIAL ACTIVATIONS
PHOTOGRAPHY
VIDEO EDITING
GRAPHIC DESIGN
PRESENTATION DESIGN
WEB DESIGN
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In his free time, Steve loves escaping the city and finding new hikes to experience or incredible mountain vistas to camp near. If he isn't out exploring the wilderness, he's usually enjoying something active, anything from yoga at home or paddleboarding in the marina.
Keeping an active lifestyle continues to be an amazing opportunity for Steve to explore his creative thoughts and always inspires the most exciting ideas for him.
SATURDAY - SUNDAY
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EXPERIENCE
SR. ART DIRECTOR (L6)
Amazon // 2022 - Present
Brand Innovation Lab
Innovative creative leader spearheading one-of-a-kind, fully custom campaigns from pitch to execution through leveraging never-been-done-before activations across the Amazon canvas including Alexa, Twitch, IMDb, On-Package Advertising, Fire TV, Ring, and more for theatrical studios (e.g. Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros.), streamers (e.g. Paramount+, Disney+, Hulu, Peacock, Max), linear TV networks (e.g. Paramount Network, ABC, FOX, NBC) and apps (e.g. TikTok, Noggin by Nick Jr., DraftKings, Adobe) looking to create impactful, customer obsessed advertising campaigns on Amazon.
CAMPAIGNS
*Includes pre-sales and sold campaign work.
SR. DESIGN MANAGER
Paramount Pictures // 2018 - 2022
Worldwide Marketing Partnerships
Creative lead guiding the vision and voice of global marketing partnership campaigns beginning with conceptualizing and presenting creative ideations to internal and external stakeholders, designing and/or providing creative direction to vendors and agencies across various campaign elements (OOH, TVC, digital, social, print, retail, packaging, etc.), and managing the art direction of partnership campaigns while ensuring the overarching marketing objective is brought to life in an engaging and provocative way.
CAMPAIGNS
*Due to Covid-19, some films were sold to streamers after various work was completed.
CREATIVE MANAGER
Paramount Pictures // 2015 - 2018
Worldwide Marketing Partnerships
Designed and shaped the visual story of global marketing partnership campaigns and spearheaded the end-to-end delivery of creative assets for campaign elements.
CAMPAIGNS
ASST. CREATIVE MANAGER
Paramount Pictures // 2013 - 2015
Digital Marketing & Brand Strategy
Established and oversaw the domestic positioning, creative, and budget for genre and franchise film marketing campaigns for home media launch initiatives across streaming, digital, and physical platforms.
CAMPAIGNS
SR. CREATIVE COORDINATOR
Paramount Pictures // 2012 - 2013
Digital Marketing & Brand Strategy
Organized, created, and maintained global marketing plans as well as project managed new release films in order to keep creative campaign elements on schedule with final deliveries from cross-functional departments.
CAMPAIGNS
COORDINATOR
BS, ARCH. DESIGN
Company 3 // 2010 - 2012
Worldwide Creative Marketing
University of Illinois - Chicago
Coordinated company branding, website updates, social content, and designed marketing collateral for advertisements, e-newsletters, promotional items, and film festival events across each global office located in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, London, and Sydney.
Activities & Awards:
Barcelona Study Abroad Program
Honors College
Kenneth Schroeder Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient
Nancy Gislason Award for Outstanding Design Recipient
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