Blufrog Studios is a strategic marketing, branding and creative development agency developing integrated marketing and branding concepts specific for multiple B2C and B2B touch points. The company’s services and processes span the entire brand development scope including; brand strategy, brand development and brand engagement.

The scope of this new position was to develop strategies for B2C & B2B marketing and creative initiatives to include branding, TV/radio, print advertising, direct mail and all communication materials for seven individual departments, overall web site design and all related seasonal web objectives. Also coordinating promotions, press releases, corporate partnerships and cause marketing programs with corporate, non-profits, municipal’s and broadcast companies to further develop the Swingle brand. I managed and maintained a $700,000 marketing budget. In my tenure the marketing budget increased 245% and corporate revenues increased $4,500,000.

Managed all areas of marketing strategies, corporate communications and brand management for start-ups to small size companies.
Blufrog Studios also developed a publishing imprint label and character creation division. The company created character adventure driven franchise properties to help children understand the power of imagination. The Cartoon Network Studios in Los Angeles and New York considered several properties for future development. These character-registered properties remain active with the US Patent & Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., and all property's hold copyrights registered in the Library of Congress.

Graphity was a boutique advertising and design firm located in Denver's Cherry Creek retail district where I managed a staff of six talented creative and admin personnel. The Agency worked on corporate, professional services and retail accounts. Graphity was also involved with Denver's new agency for Economic Development and created a national marketing and print advertising campaign slated for the Wall Street Journal.

Art Director and Designer on agency's corporate and retail accounts. It was my first advertising agency position and this is where I began to receive my chops in developing creative solutions that answered to a detailed marketing strategy set-forth by the agency.

Graphic Us Design Group in Los Angeles was contracted by the Max Factor Company to create package designs for an ever-expanding product-line. I was a staff designer on the account, my first position out of Art Center. On my very first design assignment, my designs beat out designs that were also created and submitted by Saul Bass, the legendary design shop in Los Angeles that created iconic corporate identities for some of the top fortune 100 companies.

Areas of study were Advertising Design, Graphic Design, Typography, Photography and Film. In 1972, after my freshman year, I was the youngest student in Art Center's history to have received the Advertising Design Scholarship.