Creative Director

MICHAEL MINGRONI

**** ******** *******, ********, ** 23231 C: 804-***-**** ****.********@*****.***

Summary

Skills

Results-oriented Creative Director accustomed to surpassing expectations in deadline-driven environments. Adept at managing heavy workloads while focusing on designing creative, visually-appealing graphics. Highly effective manager who leverages excellent communication, interpersonal and client management skills to produce consistently outstanding visual results. Efficient in administrative and process oriented responsibilities and demands. Able to motivate creative teams and build dynamic work environments where individual expectations are challenged by enhancing and developing skillsets.

Lengthy history of garnering exceptional results.

Self-motivated professional

Corporate level management experience

Creative and artistic

Design strategist

Productive time management

Conceptual thinker

Corporate design

Advanced typographic knowledge

Adobe Creative Suite

Cinema 4D R18

Excel

Word

Powerpoint

Experience

Creative Director 01/2017 - 05/2017

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Richmond, VA

Responsible for daily oversight of 26 senior broadcast designers and graphic artists. Developed and managed corporate graphics hub for Nexstar television stations. Supplied news, marketing and sales support for 50 television stations nationwide on a daily basis producing over 2000 unique still, motion, print and web graphics per week. Operation ran 24/7/365. Prioritized graphic workload demands and effectively coordinated dozens of projects concurrently. Supported production of high volumes under tight time constraints and the operation gained a reputation as a model for the industry. Meticulously followed corporate brand guidelines to enable brand consistency across properties, campaigns and marketing initiatives. Developed internal workflows to improve efficiencies. Maintained the highest customer service level resulting in high client satisfaction by minimizing mistakes utilizing several internal redundancies and failsafe procedures.

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MICHAEL MINGRONI

8200 Colemant Terrace, Richmond, VA 23231 C: 804-***-**** ****.********@*****.*** Experience

Creative Director 10/2007 - 01/2017

Media General Richmond, VA

Managed 20 senior broadcast designers and graphic artists in the centralized broadcast hub. Serviced 20 television stations supplying high end still and motion graphics. Offered daily support for news, marketing, sales and digital media. Instrumental in creating a collegiate environment of producing high quality work while challenging artists to grow skillsets. Responsible for budgets, administrative, planning, conflict resolution, scheduling and creative. Forward thinking individual who leads by inspiring results. Vice President of Television Graphics 10/1997 - 05/2007 ACME Communications, LLC St. Louis, MO

Managed a large creative team consisting of graphic artists and marketing managers for the third largest WB station group in the country. Oversaw and supplied the creative for 15 stations nationwide. Responsible for production of all creative including news, promotion, sales, digital and client commercial production. One of the first television station groups in the country to leverage the use of on-air snipes and lower third crawls as a highly profitable revenue stream. Responsible for creative and production of snipes through client interaction.

Activities & Honors

Enjoying 35 years as a nationally recognized award winning designer, art director and creative director. Fulfilled pivotal roles in several graphic hub startup initiatives including the ACME WB hub in St. Louis, MO, as Vice President of Television Graphics in addition to the Media General graphics hub in Richmond, VA, as creative director.

Nominated to and served on the Broadcast Designersʼ Association International Board of Governors from 1997-2000. This governing body is instrumental in defining the direction, development and refinement of electronic design disciplines on a global scale.

Recipient of numerous notable design awards including gold awards from Promax/BDA, 13 regional Emmy Awards for design and art direction.

Employed as art director for ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX. Design work has appeared on ESPN, Fox Sports and Raycom.

Expert instructor for motion graphics at the National Institute for the Study of Digital Media at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

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