Director Sales

+1-312-***-**** *** East Waterside Drive, #****

Art Director

Boris Geissler

Chicago, Illinois 60601

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United States

www.borisgeissler.com

PrOfessiOnal exPerience

Objective

Art Director

Boris Geissler

freelance Designer and art Director

Seeking an art director position with an established

Airbiquity Inc. (12/08 – Present)

advertising agency that allows me to utilize more than

Develoment, design and production of software

five years of cumulative art director experience with

user interfaces (Classic & Flash)

advertising, design and marketing agencies to produce

Conception and production of B2B microsites

award-winning work with a successful, creative team.

and interactive B2C content stores

Creation of online campaigns for the automotive

PrOfessiOnal skills and navigation space

Beyonav LCC (05/09 – Present)

Energetic, goal-focused and highly organized art director

Initial creation of brand identity including logo

with an extensive knowledge of conception, design,

development, collateral and corporate website

conversion and transaction of interactive and print media

offers best-in-class skills that go beyond the imperatives

navigon inc, chicago, United states

that are necessary to craft exceptional creations. Creative,

Art Director (03/07 – 05/09)

management as well as production skills are as advanced

Solely responsible for complete brand image and

as the knowledge of high-level image manipulation,

appearance of Navigon in North America, leading the

advanced typography, complex compositing and detail-

establishment of an internal creative department

oriented finishing.

Directed two designers on a regular basis and

supervised, directed and managed a team of up to

technical skills 14 graphic artists on a project basis

Conceptualized, designed and implemented

Expert in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat,

advertising strategies and campaigns

Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Lightroom, Final Cut,

Designed and produced successful email campaigns

QuarkXPress, HTML, XML, CSS, Actionscript as well as

and online promotions that more than doubled an-

Microsoft Office – operating on Mac & PC

nual web shop sales

Developed and designed software user interfaces

and processes that increased product ease-of-use

Wrote, conceptualized and directed social media

initiatives that saved $350 thousand in customer

support costs and strengthened brand awareness

as well as consumer satisfaction

Directed and designed award-winning trade show

booths and produced corresponding marketing,

sales and PR material

Developed diverse packaging concepts that saved

$8.9 million in production, assembly, labor and ship-

ping costs in the first 12 months alone; Concept was

See my portfolio at www.borisgeissler.com deployed by European headquarters for worldwide

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use, equaling additional savings

Art Director

Boris Geissler

columbia college, chicago, United states

Provided concepts and solutions that focused on

profitability and brand success, helping to push the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

company in six months to the number four brand Advertising Art Direction

in the U.S. with market share of up to 11.5 % for per- Graduated with Honors, CGPA: 3.95

sonal navigation devices

Media school hamburg, Germany

frahm und Wandelt advertising, hamburg, Germany Associate of Fine Arts (A.F.A.)

Associate Art Director, Media Designer for Digital and Media Design for Digital and Print Media

Print Media (06/04 – 02/07) Graduated best in class and under the best 3 of all

Conceptualized, directed and designed B2B and B2C students statewide (top 2 %), CGPA: 4.0

print and online advertising campaigns

Directed a team of up to 7 associate art directors,

recOGnitiOn

graphic artists, illustrators and finishing artists on

a regular basis Awarded “Best of CES” by Event Marketer in 2008

Developed successful client pitches that led to new, for NAVIGON booth design

multi-million Euro accounts that increased agency Graduated with honors and with a CGPA of 3.95 in

revenue by more than 20 % Advertising Art Direction from Columbia College

Created and developed direct mail campaigns, gue- Made it on Columbia College Dean’s list for all

rilla and promotional advertising tactics and ideas attended semesters

that affected in extensive media coverage Graduated best in class and under the best 3 of all

Developed nation-wide poster & advertising campaigns students statewide (top 2 %), CGPA: 4.0

Directed and designed diverse marketing and inter- Qualified for the scholarship for intellectually

national trade catalogues gifted students by the Federal Department of

Developed and maintained corporate identities and Education of Germany

designs for international medical, health care, pub-

lishing and consumer-goods corporations

Ministry of Media, hamburg, Germany

Freelancer in Digital Advertising Agency (03/04 – 05/04)

xnet communications, hamburg, Germany

Freelancer in Software & Network Firm (03/02 – 04/02)

Mirbach-vetter, hamburg, Germany

Freelancer in Brand Agency (09/00 – 10/00)

nMf. advertising agency, hamburg, Germany

See my portfolio at www.borisgeissler.com Freelancer in Digital Advertising Agency (06/00 – 08/00)

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