Creative Agencies

Visionary and collaborative leader with 20+ years’ experience delivering high visibility creative with strong ROI at Disney, Google, Electronic Arts, and more.  Extensive experience developing impactful digital and social campaigns, corporate identity, style guides and brand advertising, serving a client roster inclusive of Nike, Visa, Pepsi, and Disney. Motivational leader specializing in building and enriching creative marketing teams, leading them in the execution of high-quality design.

• Developed, managed and implemented user acquisition digital assets for the entire Disney mobile catalogue (Disney Emoji Blitz, Star Wars Commander, Frozen Free Fall, Disney Life, and more) providing art direction from concept to production, managing budget and helping support over $500MM in gross revenue
• Defined optimal creative team structure, hiring and managing a team of 10+ in-house employees in various locations and across disciplines (graphic designers, video editors, copywriters, motion graphics, marketing managers) while sourcing an external team of agency partners to complement in-house activities
• Led rebranding project for Disney Life (UK digital streaming service). Controlled all stages of the design process including innovation, development and actualization, leveraging knowledge of target market and competitor research to boost customer subscriptions by 10% and increase creative CTR by 3x
• Strategized and scheduled omnichannel marketing campaigns, leading conceptual brainstorms and presenting organized concepts to cross-functional teams and upper level executives
• Leveraged data and visual insights to optimize creative and enforce best practices in sequential iterations throughout the app life cycle, resulting in +15% CTR and social engagement lift across all titles
• Partnered with Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm to preserve brand and franchise guidelines and translate core creative to marketing campaigns

Creative Director

• Directed creative for all campaigns across partner sites (ET Online, TMZ, Seventeen, TV Guide, Entertainment Weekly, Better Homes & Gardens) with over 148MM unique views/month
• Liaised with top-tier agencies and global clients during post-sale ad production process. Informed clients regarding creative and technical specs throughout campaign flight. (Clients included Nike, Best Buy, GM, Verizon, Visa, Pepsi, and Ford)
• Guided creative development for 3rd party agency in the creation of new company logo/brandmark. Developed style guide to support rollout of new branding for internal and external distribution. Spearheaded meetings educating team on brand guidelines and best practices
• Built and managed a team of 10 visual designers, graphic designers, and flash developers
• Dramatically streamlined production timeline by 3 weeks for clients through technical and creative process improvement.
• Partnered with Engineering and UX to expand offerings through the development of new rich media ad units.
• Collaborated with Sales, Marketing, and Business Development to develop a catalog of collateral for client pitches, including presentations, one-sheeters, and product spec sheets
• Represented creative capabilities in pitch meetings with top agencies
• Concepted themes and produced tradeshow signage and material for SXSW and Internet Week New York for 2010-2012

• Led all design elements for Pogo.com marketing game launches and campaigns.
• Conceptualized, designed and produced animated flash ads and web pages for multiple titles including Monopoly, Operation, Puck's Peak, Tri-Peaks 2, Word Whomp Underground, and First Class Solitaire
• Partnered with ad operations as sole designer producing and designing over 250 in-game sponsorships and Pogo.com homepage takeovers implementing client logos and assets into existing Pogo media.  Clients included Coke, Oreo, Wendy's, Hasbro, Chrysler, Subway, HP, and Aleve
• Championed and enforced Pogo branding guidelines internally and externally
• Served as key creative liaison with external partners AOL, Yahoo, iVillage and Real Arcade
• Performed lead role in the design and production of multiple sized flash ads and web pages for over 100 seasonal and sweepstakes promotions
• Worked with UI and UX team on the site wide redesign of unauthenticated game pages project (10 color palettes, 65 game thumbnails and full webpages, 20-page game manuals)

Senior Graphic Designer

• Developed and created flash movies, images, animated gifs, illustrations, and icons for Capcom USA's website
• Designed and implemented flash portal sites for clients to promote software title launches. Clients included Disney, Nintendo, and Ubisoft
• Created portal sites for internal teams including PR, Sales, and Marketing to promote software titles to sales reps and external vendors
• Provided technical web support for corporate site (1MM visitors daily), hand-coding pages in HTML and JavaScript
• Managed and maintained company message board (vBulletin)
• Provided technical support for corporate email systems

Web Developer

• Provided web production support for corporation's internal and corporate web site
• Assisted in redesign of internal corporate web site, developing the creative and implementing (hand coding) all pages
• Designed and implemented Corporate Timeline for corporate web site
• Produced and maintained "News of the Day" internal web destination

Web Production Associate

• Championed and maintained visual integrity of the 3Com brand across web for the United States, Canada, and Central and South America
• Produced and maintained Web Style Guide content to support all business units globally
• Led weekly meetings with international offices to provide updates and facilitate the sharing of ideas
• Worked together with the Web Operations Development team to update non- graphical aspects of 3com.com website (i.e. HTML code, JavaScript, proofreading content, etc.)
• Developed and created images, animated gifs, illustrations, symbols and icons for 3Com's website as well as for use in online applications
• Created working HTML demonstration of 3Com.com
• Led a team of six production artists and designers

Lead Web Graphic Designer

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Omeed Badri

Santa Clara University, College of Arts and Sciences