PHIL CUTHBERT e: *********@*******.***
c: 815-***-****
a: Sycamore, IL 60178
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Creative marketing professional and designer with a strong artistic background, specializing in developing quality branded advertising materials and campaigns to B2B, B2C B2G client. Experienced in achieving target goal of market reach through a combination of paid media, website strategy and SEO optimization, email marketing, direct mail, and partner marketing.
WORK HISTORY
Sierra7 - Project Manager
Falls Church, VA 8/22 • 2/24
• Led team of 3 to implement series of targeted social media programs to increase awareness of VA Vet Centers nationwide to over 800,000 at-risk vets. Action items included targeted email survey, weekly newsletters, national live events
• Contract worth $5MM reinstated due to success of efforts
• Provided graphics design assistance to proposals team leading contributing to a winning rate of 80% and $30MM in new revenue Dexter Magnetic Technologies - Director of Marketing Elk Grove Village, Illinois 8/18 • 8/22
• Executed marketing campaigns for a top global magnet manufacturer dominating Defense, Semiconductor, and Medical Devices sectors; boosted brand visibility by 45% across key markets.
• Implemented advertising & design projects including international trade show displays, product brochures, sell sheets, signage, and corporate videos.
• Design and launched new corporate website generating over 1000 daily hits and attracting over 2000 new followers to LinkedIn.
• Maintenance and programming of in-house Sugar CRM
• Maintained parts inventory of over 1000 SKUs
• Sales increases of $50MM to $100MM in tenure
Hubbell Lighting Components - Creative Strategist
Elgin, Illinois 3/17 • 08/18
• Led team to design trade show display for large scale industry trade shows for major commercial lighting manufacturer.
• Developed associated sell sheets, marketing collateral and website Gilmore Marketing - Senior Designer
Elgin, Illinois • 07/16 • 02/17
• Created a diverse variety of websites, brochures, sell sheets, trade shows and other marketing materials for a variety of clients including retail, service and political candidates. All graphic design elements
• Provided KPIs and analytics to clients
Catamaran, Inc. - Senior Creative
Lisle, Illinois 07/10 • 02/12
• Creative lead for pharmaceutical benefit management company.
• Designed all marketing materials and maintained corporate website and intranet.
• Supported all levels of sales from outbound sales to CEO. SKILLS
• Web Design
• Corporate and Product identity branding
• Visual communication expertise
• CRM management (Sugar, Salesforce, Hubspot)
• Extensive trade show design and installation
• Business management
• Teaching and mentoring
• Team leading and building
• Performance marketing
• Vendor relations
• SCO, SEO and Google Analytics Certified
• Expert level in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Video production in both Captivate and AfterEffects
• Database development using PHP and MySQL
• Over 200 decks created in PowerPoint
• Extensive experience in MailChimp, Constant Contact and Graticle with over 10 million emails sent with consistent 5% positive response rates
• Accomplished and award winning fine artist and sculptor. CONTRACT EXPERIENCE
MIS Director
Clorox Corporation
Instructional Designer
DeVry University
Catalog Designer
Enesco, Inc.
Marketing Manager
Storcom, Inc.
Biometric Security Instructor Sai-First Corp.
New Employee Onboarding Program
Arthur Anderson
EDUCATION
University of Illinois
Champaign, IL
Bachelor of Arts
State Of Illinois - Office Of Lt. Governor -
Manager of Constituent Web Services
Chicago, Illinois 07/05 • 09/09
Design, develop and implement online constituent
communication efforts print collateral to feedback based websites. Constructed web based surveys, petitions and policy notifications.