MARK
MAZIARZ
Creative Director
MARK MAZIARZ
Redondo Beach, CA
adcsdo@r.postjobfree.com
www.markmaziarz.squarespace.com
www.thisisbark.com
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Skills
I'm an Advertising Creative Director and Writer with 17 years experience on the agency side in NYC and LA. I love connecting exciting brands with big moments in culture. I also moonlight as a children's author and front a kid's band called BARK. Our debut album was met with critical acclaim on NPR and is on regular rotation on Sirius XM Kids ㅡ
Experience
Freelance / Executive Creative Director
June 2018 - Present
Agencies: BatteryAnnex, Haymaker, ClifBar, R/GA, David&Goliath, The Wonderful Agency, R&RPartners, BuckTV, 20th Century Fox, Ogilvy.
72andSunny / Creative Director
November 2011 - June 2018, PLAYA VISTA
Led a team of 20 creatives to completely reinvent the Carl’s Jr. brand, won the Truth Anti-Smoking business with a reinvigorated brand purpose, and launched a global 360 campaign for Coors Light. I also made several groundbreaking film and gaming partnerships for Sony’s
“The Amazing Spiderman”, Fox’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past”, WB’s
“Man of Steel”, Activision’s “Call of Duty”, and Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty”, which won a People’s Choice Webby last year. DraftFCB / Associate Creative Director
January 2009 - November 2011, IRVINE, CA
Brands - Taco Bell
Grey Worldwide / Freelance Copywriter
May 2008 - Decemeber 2008, NYC
Brands - E-trade
Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners / Freelance Writer
January 2008 - May 2008, NYC
Brands - Wendys, Panasonic, HomeGoods
Berlin Cameron United / Senior Copywriter
July 2003- January 2008, NY
Brands – Coca Cola, Boost Mobile, Samsung, Silk, Tidy Cats, Ford, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Comcast, Belvedere, and Heineken. ㅡ
Education
VCU Brandcenter/Master of Science in Communications August 2001 - May 2003, Richmond, Virginia
University of Kansas/ Bachelor of Science in Journalism August 1996 - May 2000, Lawrence, Kansas