As a thirty-year veteran of the design and advertising industry, I have both depth and breadth of experience in serving my clients and providing a wide range of solutions to their marketing opportunities. I am a bit of a chameleon, as comfortable designing a spot-on logo for a new venture as I am creating a powerful illustration that can communicate a client’s core message quickly and effectively. I crave strategy. I may love to create intriquing powerful imagery, but I crave strategy and a well-crafted creative brief makes me giddy. It's the egg that holds the cake together. I was immersed in strategy in my time as a V.P. of Creative Services. We always worked from tight creative blueprints honed from focused planning sessions. We knew who we were talking to, whom were speaking for and the one big idea we needed to convey! My work for E-85, Securian Financial, Mohawk Moving, the Minnesota Corn Growers Association, Timberlodge Steakhouse, Bay & Bay Transportation and man