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Award Winning Creative Director

Ren Petrauskas

Chicago, IL
coolbluedream.com
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    Multi-faceted creative director offering 20 years of high level creative, complimented by a solid business acumen and a proven ability to significantly impress clients and exceed their expectations.

    Capabilities include:

    • Recruitment and retention of high-level creative talent

    • Mentoring of internal resources to improve productivity

    • Excellent understanding of current technologies

    • Formation of strategic alliances

    • Scheduling and forecasting

    • New Business development

  • Education
    • Bachelors Graphic Design
      Penn State College
      1982 - 1986
  • Experience
    • Director of Event Marketing
      Matrex Exhibits
      Addison, IL
      May 2007 - May 2009 (2 years)
      Management position supervising the building of the Experiential Marketing Division called Creative Productions. This department has grown from a non-existent division to more than 25% of the company’s total revenue.

      • Supervised creative teams in the production of new business
      • Managed onsite production, vendors and promotional activities
      • Oversaw all production of experiential training and edutainment activities
      • Recruited and directed a cutting edge team of creatives, programmers, and animators
      • Internalized production resources, saving company expense and expediting response time
      • Significantly increased the quality and caliber of deliverables
      • Finely honed creative sensibility and skills to achieve on-target, highly original solutions

      Accounts: Allscripts, AM General, Astellas, Bosch, Cadbury Schweppes, CNH, Healthpoint, Miller, New Holland, Sara Lee, Sepracor, Stryker, Talecris, Uniden and Wrigley’s
    • Creative Director
      TBA Global Events
      Oak Brook, IL
      2004 - 2006 (2 years)
      Management position supervising the day-to-day activities of proposals, new business development, meeting and event graphics, animation, video editing, interactive, print production.

      • Supervised creative teams in the production of new business pitches
      resulting in over a 60% acquisition / acceptance rate and an 80%
      retention rate of existing business
      • Oversaw complete production of 2 new key clients meetings and events
      • Internalized production resources, saving company expense and expediting response time
      • Significantly increased the quality and caliber of deliverables
      • Finely honed creative sensibility and skills to achieve on-target, highly original solutions

      Accounts: 2005 Presidential Inaugural, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cendant, Chase, Elan Pharmaceuticals, General Motors, Herbalife, Hospira, HP, Intel, Mass Mutual, Microsoft, Motorola, Nortel, Petsmart, Qualcomm, ROSS Products, SAP, SBC, State Farm, Tour of Hope, VIACOM and Wells Fargo

      Entertainment: 3 Doors Down, Hilary Duff, Fuel, Elton John, Bon Jovi, The Eagles, Jessica Simpson, ZZ Top and Lance Armstrong
  • Awards

    2 Sizzle Awards - Best-Integrated Marketing Programs

    MCAI - Philo Award for the Deloitte & Touche 5 screen meeting

    HSMAI - Gold Award recipient

    HSMAI - Bronze Award recipient

    Blue Cross / Blue Shield, “Best of Blue” - Judge

    Industrial Film Awards Competition - Judge

    Direct Marketing Association - Echo Award for Visa / Olympics campaign

    Association for Multi Image Awards - Gold Recipient

    Association for Multi Image Awards - Bronze Recipient

    On-site trainer - Trained employees in the use of After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator & Quark

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra Centennial Poster competition - Second Place

    only individual in the top ten, all other entries from major ad agencies

  • Affiliations

    After Effects Users Group, mentor offering assistance to the group

    Web Developers’ Guide, founding member and mentor

    Graphic Artist Guild member

  • Industries
    • Advertising
    • Entertainment
  • Skills
    • Creative Direction
    • Design Management
    • Exhibit Design
    • Interaction Design
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