julie adams

professional resume

 

Education

Columbus College of Art and Design
BFA in Media Studies and Graphic Design

 

Professional Profile

Band Digital, Inc., Chicago, Illinois

 National Creative Director, May 2009 – Current

  • Responsible for national creative leadership and oversight for clients including Harley-Davidson, Frederick’s of Hollywood, SC Johnson, Redbox, and Quaker
  • Leads creative campaign development from project inception through final executions, including websites,
  • Manages the national creative team, totaling <15 members including Interaction Designers, Assoc. Creative Directors, Art Directors and Copywriters
  • Responsible for providing team with inspiration and innovation, hands-on leadership, streamlining creative performance, team-building, conducting performance reviews, holding staffing meetings, interviewing new-hires and communicating employee termination
  • Leads pitches for new work as well as growing existing work in conjunction with business development teams, presenting creative visions and executions for new and existing campaign opportunities
  • Develops innovative and forward-thinking creative solutions, ensuring execution is tailored to individual client needs and is on-brand
  • Informs leadership team, including ECD and VPS, with creative vision and project status
  • Go to lead for advertising “what’s happenings”
  • Extremely versed in giving creative feedback and direction to creative and IXD team

 Associate Creative Director, August 2008 – May 2009 

  • Lead creative direction for all Harley-Davidson online marketing initiatives, including H-D’s Corporate and Museum sites, Model Year release for 2010 and 2011, V-Rod Muscle promotional site, H-D Women Riders, Young Adults (Dark Custom), Hispanic and African American Outreach initiatives and Corporate Email communications
  • Developed and exercised strong presentation skills for both internal and client-facing team members, ranging from brand managers to CMO’s
  • Conceptualized and produced compelling visual presentations utilizing various media to convey complex strategies and messages a to a wide variety of audiences

 

ARC Worldwide, Chicago, Illinois

Senior Art Director, April 2005 – August 2008

Art Director, April 2004 – August 2008

  • Worked directly with Creative Directors, Art Directors, Designers, Copywriters, Project Managers and Account teams to concept and execute projects for the following cliental: Diageo, Cadillac, Kellogg's, Nintendo, Captain Morgan, Procter & Gamble and Harrah’s Casinos
  • Lead visionary for client interactive communications including website, online advertising, rich media units and other interactive applications

 

Burn City Designs, Chicago, Illinois

Freelance Art Director, July 2000 – August 2004

  • Responsible for leading creative concepting through visual design execution for a variety of printed materials, including annual reports, catalogs, brochures, letterhead, envelopes, business cards, postcards and posters
  • Developed wireframes, user flows and interface designs for all web and interactive projects
  • Devised strategies and marketing campaigns for direct mail and internal promotional pieces

  

MUSICNOW, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

User Interface Designer. July 2000 – October 2002 

  • Responsible for providing innovative and visually elegant solutions to user interface challenges for a commercial software application spanning three platforms
  • Developed informational structures and navigational wireframes for all platforms
  • Assisted development team with usability scripting and testing, prototypes build-outs, QA and results analysis
  • Managed projects for creative department and acted as primary liaison between internal creative and third party agencies

 

Expertise

  • Deep interactive expertise with extensive agency and client experience
  • Solid understanding of internet architecture and interaction design
  • Ability to gracefully handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment while leading and inspiring
  • Expert in Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite and Visio
  • Working knowledge of XML, HTML, Java Script, Dreamweaver, Flash and Director
  • Fluent in both the Mac and PC environment
  • Photography: Color, Black and White and Digital
  • Silk-screening


Affiliations

DIGITAL EVE CHICAGO | Member
CHICWIT | Member

Community

P.L.A.Y. (Possibilities in Life Through Art and Youth) - Art Teacher Aid
P.L.A.Y. is a non-profit organization that works in conjunctions with C.A.U.S.E.S. (an non profit therapy center for sexually and physically abuse children) to opens the doors of creative expression for children and teenager abuse survivors.

GALLERY 37- Creative Mentor
Gallery 37’s passion is to create a mentoring program between youth and established artists to increase public awareness of the importance of the arts, arts education and to make the arts accessible to people of all ages.

ART INTERCHANGE COLLECTIVE
The Art Interchange Collective is a non-profit organization that familiarizes artists with the work of their fellow colleagues in order to foster the growing need for collaborative artwork.