JOHN M. VUKUSIC 105 E 38th St APT 8A • NEW YORK, NY • 10016 PHONE: 646.229.2993 • E-MAIL: JVUKUSIC@YAHOO.COM OBJECTIVE Seeking a full time position where I can use my skills to help shape a great creative department. I am skilled in both the technical and managerial aspects of the job. My communication skills are excellent, as I've been the lead on many client pitches. My presence will have an immediate and lasting impact on any creative team that I join. TARGET JOB Target Job Title: Creative Director Alternate Target Job Title: ACD / Art Director Desired Job Type: Employee, Temporary/Contract/Project Desired Status: Full-Time Desired Salary: 75,000.00-120,000.00 USD Per Year Date of Availability: Immediately EXPERIENCE: 1/2002 – 2005, continued freelance Lime Interactive New York, NY Creative Director Hired to energize the shop’s advertisement work and some pitch development for Lime Interactive. Work included advertisement and website design for clients such as Chase Manhattan, Daffy Dan’s, and J.P. Morgan. 3/1999 - 11/2001 Agency.com / i-traffic.com New York, NY Associate Creative Director Given task of raising the level of creative in a rejuvenated i-traffic creative department. Creative lead on all pitches and new business. Responsible for all recommendations on improvement and direction of company creative. Handled all client pitches and was creative lead for all client work until 2001 when I shared client load with a Group Creative Director. I-traffic was bought out by Agency.com in the 4th quarter of 99 but kept its original name. 5/1998 - 3/1999 Organic Media New York, NY Senior Art Director Transferred from Organic Productions to Organic Media to start the new creative department along with CD Stephen Tortorici. Conceptualized and designed most of the company banners to date. Created a standardized desktop, naming conventions, server file structures, standard email conventions, and other company wide structure policies. Started the Rich-Media Initiative: A directive to go “beyond the banner. Redesigned the organic meta site and pitch documents. 2/1998 - 5/1998 Organic Online New York, NY Senior Designer Started as website designer on several accounts, eventually taking over all banner design responsibilities. Instructed creative department on proper and efficient banner creation techniques. Pushed management into creating a Media division of Organic to take over online advertising. 12/1996 - 2/1998 Thunderhouse / McCann Erickson New York, NY Lead Designer One of two designers on staff to handle all creative work. Created L’Oreal, GMC and Tiffany websites. Updated US Airways website and created CargoWorks and Personal Travelworks subsites. One of the first 5 employees to start this interactive division of McCann Erickson. Created interactive work for the Mastercard “PRICELESS” campaign pitch. EDUCATION: 5/1996 Syracuse University US-NY-Syracuse Bachelor's Degree 5 year Bachelor of Industrial Design program included multi-disciplinary education involving engineering, graphic design, package design, corporate identity, advertising design, interface development, and more. Thesis project was the ground-up design of a functional electric vehicle. GPA: 3.0 (3.5 in major) AFFILIATIONS 12/2001 - Present New York University - Guest Lecturer 4/2000 - Present Syracuse University - Guest Lecturer 3/1991 – Present I.D.S.A. Member REFERENCES: Blair Shapiro Agency.com Group Creative Director Phone Number: 212-651-1850 Email Address: bshapiro@i-traffic.com Reference Type:Professional Brad Epstien Lord Group & Spier NY Executive Creative Director Phone Number: 212-561-9241 Email Address: bepstein@spier-ny.com Reference Type:Professional Colin Ochel Lime Interactive Group President Phone Number: 212 460 9161 Email Address: colin@limeinteractive.com Reference Type:Professional Steve Coulson DIGITAL@J Walter Thompson Digital Creative Director Phone Number: 212-210-7737 Email Address: scoulson@jwt.com Reference Type:Professional AWARDS: Yahoo Featured Website: 1997 Tiffany.com, L’Oreal.com websites. Both received 4 out of 5 stars Adtech Gold Award: November 1998 Barnes&Noble.com interactive banner advertisements Channel 7 Featured Campaign: July 1999, SelfCare interactive advertisement campaign Advertising Age: July 2000, Discovery Channel: Croc Hunter radical mail campaign Advertising Age: November 2001 British Airways: use of online “skyscraper”-sized advertisements 2001 iNOVA AWARDS, Gold: Rich Media Advertising: Land Rover Freelander Campaign SKILLS: Skill Name Skill Level Last Used Experience Photoshop Expert Currently used 10 years Illustrator Intermediate Currently used 5 years Web Development Expert Currently used 7 years Quark Intermediate Currently used 3 years Flash Intermediate 1 year ago 1 years Javascript Intermediate 1 year ago 3 years ImageReady Expert Currently used 5 years PowerPoint Expert Currently used 4 years Adobe GoLive Intermediate Currently used 5 years Mac OS Expert Currently used 12 years Quark Intermediate 1 year ago 3 years HTML Expert Currently used 10 years Artistic Drawing / Sketching Intermediate Currently used 10 years Microsoft Windows Expert Currently used 12 years PC Technician Intermediate Currently used 10 years