a creative director and creative operations leader based in Frederick, MD. For the last six-plus years I've been building design teams, creative systems, and the kind of operational infrastructure that lets creative work actually scale, all inside one fast-growing performance marketing agency (that somehow turned into several). I like problems with a lot of moving parts, which is probably how I ended up running creative operations across six agencies at once and still finding time to touch the actual creative work.

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I care about two things pretty equally: creative that performs, and process that doesn't get in the way of people doing their best work. Most of my career has lived right at the intersection of those two — figuring out how to keep quality high while a team, a client roster, or an entire agency network gets bigger and more complicated.

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Outside of work, I'm most at home outside. I've backpacked through Washington, Maryland, West Virginia, and the Dolomites in Italy — including a multi-day hut-to-hut trek with more via ferrata than I probably should admit to enjoying. I've done multi-day canoe trips through Maine, and I'll take any excuse to go fly fishing, results not guaranteed.

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When I'm not on a trail or in a canoe, I'm probably grilling for more people than strictly necessary, recently picking my old Nikon N80 film camera back up after years in a drawer, or standing by my brief 2020 stint running a flower-pressing art business.

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If any of this (the creative, the chaos, the trail maps, the questionable fishing luck) sounds like what you're building, let's talk.