— Jody Burry, BDes | Honours, Creative Director

18 years working as a creative director and designer. Looking for opportunities to lead creative in a team-based corporate environment. 

— Capabilities.

  • Visual Identity & Branding

  • Corporate Design

  • Graphic Design

  • Digital Design

  • UI/UX Design

  • Editorial Design

  • Copywriting & Editing

  • Video Design & Editing

  • Digital & Traditional Illustration

  • Front-end Development

— Skills.

  • Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Muse

  • Wordpress, SquareSpace, Wix

  • Wrike, Cage, BaseCamp, Slack

  • Microsoft Office 365

  • Powerpoint

  • Mailchimp

  • Photography

— Education.

NSCAD University, Bachelor of Design
Honours in Visual Communication Design,
Halifax, NS  Canada, 2004

— Training.

Digital Nova Scotia:
Leadership Lab with Eleanor Beaton
February - July, 2019

— Professional Experience

St. Joseph Communications |
Associate Creative Director
April 2020­—Present • Toronto, ON
www.stjoseph.com

As an Associate Creative Director at St. Joseph Communications I collaborate with a team or directors, managers, and designers to develop and produce integrated multi-channel campaigns (online, social, traditional, publication, and events) for clients like Eastlink, CIBC, and Home Depot.

  • Manage timeline, budgets, and resources

  • Govern brand identity and guidelines for clients across strategies and platforms

  • Develop and maintained brand standards

  • Lead development of brand and content messaging

  • Direct a production team to execute creative concepts and ensure brand integrity and consistent results

  • Present strategies/concepts to clients and external stakeholders and communicate priorities to the internal team

Twistbits by Trampoline | Creative Director
May 2018­—March 2020 • Halifax, NS
trampolinebranding.com

As Creative Director at Twistbits by Trampoline, I led a team of designers to develop and produce integrated multi-channel campaigns (online, social, traditional, publications, and events) for clients like the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Tourism Nova Scotia, NSLC, Saint Mary’s University, St. FX University, and NS SPCA.

  • Managed timeline, budgets, and resources

  • Governed brand identity and guidelines for clients across strategies and platforms

  • Developed and maintained brand standards

  • Led development of brand and content messaging

  • Directed production team to execute creative concepts and ensure brand integrity and consistent results

  • Directed web development team, including detailed involvement in front-end development, User-Interface/User-Experience (UI/UX) design, accessibility standards, brand insights and strategy alignment

  • Presented strategies/concepts to clients and external stakeholders and communicated priorities to the internal team

In my leadership position, I helped grow a small agency of five employees to an organization with 21 team members and $2.5M in annual revenue.

Fogo Creative | Creative Director, Co-founder
May 2006­—Present • Halifax, NS • fogocreative.com

As Creative Director at Fogo Creative, I’ve had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of settings, from the corporate headquarters of FIX.com, to intimate coffee shop conversations with non-for-profit and small business clients. Creating and working within this boutique consultancy built my skills as a director, designer, and project manager.

  • Directed and designed branding / identity strategies

  • Directed and designed interactive / web projects

  • Designed a full-range of communication materials

  • Managed timeline, budgets, and resources

  • Presented strategies/concepts to clients and external stakeholders and communicated priorities to the internal team

Associés Libres | Graphic Designer
July 2004­—August 2005 • Montreal, QC associeslibres.com

  • Designed educational books for McGill University and Concordia University

  • Designed identities and brand collateral