Steve's Bio
I’m reluctant to date myself. But since experience counts, I’ll confess that I started in this business as a cave painter, and that my family was among the first to have color fire.
So now, maybe a 50-year career doesn't sound that old. And I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the transition from markers, rubber cement, and IBM Selectric typewriters to the digital world. Along the way, I’ve had the good fortune to work at top ad agencies in Boston, NYC, Ft. Lauderdale, and Dayton. Print, direct marketing, broadcast, and now interactive are all in my wheelhouse — and I’ve won dozens of creative awards for work in those categories.
My work ethic is informed by one principle: If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right. And the first tool I use on every project is my ears. Because if I don’t listen carefully to you — and your customers — there’s no foundation upon which to build a strategy. And without a strategy, the result is just word salad.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a Fortune 100 company or a Mom & Pop corner store. I consider every client my best client. You all have marketing challenges, and challenges are the great equalizer.
But as important as you are, I have a life, too. Father, grandfather, jazz enthusiast, exercise nut (bicycle racer back in the day, but now just walking 6 miles a day), and board member with the American Advertising Federation - Dayton. The exercise part is actually good for you because I often do my best thinking while I’m walking. However, if you call while I’m Facetiming with my grandson, you'll just have to wait.
But enough about me. Below is a list of my Clients past and present (hoping to add you to the list), and an inventory of creative awards. OK, so that’s about me, too. My bad.
Clients (in alphabetical order):
Airstream, Inc.
Allstate Insurance
American Express
AT&T
Aubuchon Hardware
Bank of Boston
Bago Luma Furniture
BASF
BJ's Wholesale Club
BlueStar Jets
Boston Soap Works
Bushmills
Business Information Solutions, Inc.
Captain Morgan
CBK Furniture
Child World
Chivas Regal
Christian Science Monitor
Cingular
Cintas
Citibank
Claim Solvers
Compass College Advisory Center
Connor Group
Continuum
Corporate Software
Crown Royal
Dana Farber Cancer Institute & Jimmy Fund
David Yurman
Daybreak/Dayton
Discover Card
eProvizion
Fisch & Chips
FRÏS Vodka
Front Gate
Ganesh Machinery
Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority
groupSPARK
HealthCare Media Technologies
Intec Solutions
Johnnie Walker
Keller Williams Realty
Knox Machinery
Kryptonite Locks
LADD Distribution
Light World
MapQuest
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
MBNA
McGraw Hill
Medallion/Rubber Seal
MicroSun Lamps
Mountaintop Bookstore
My Organized Essentials
Occasionally Yours
Office Depot
Osaga Activewear
Pfizer
Panasonic
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge
Panorama Magazine
Party City
Playbill Magazine
Raven Rock Workwear
Reebok
RFID Convergence Center
Rider's Choice Equine Laundry
Rockport Shoes
S2 Security
Samsung
Seagram's VO
Ski Market
SiteWORX
S&K Menswear
Starwood Hotels
Stip-Ts Sandwich Shop
Store 24
Sugar Camp
Teradata
The Glenlivet
Think Patented
Upromise
Vermont Castings
Vintage Wine Bar
W Residence Hotels
Wheel Works
5 Rivers MetroParks
Awards:
2017 AAF-Dayton Silver Medal
2016: AAF-Dayton Mercury Award/Volunteer of the Year
2014: Hermes/Addy Awards — Print, Interactive, DM
2012: Telly — Broadcast
2012: Hermes/Addy Awards — Print, TV, Interactive, Branding
2011: Hermes/Addy Awards — Print, TV, Radio
2010: Hermes/Addy Awards — DM, Print, TV
2009: Hermes/Addy Awards — Print
2006: Creativity Awards — DM
1993: NY Festivals — DM
1990: Telly — TV
1989: Hatch Award — TV, Print
1986: Hatch, Telly, New England Emmy — TV
1984: Hatch Award — Print
Print | Broadcast | Direct Marketing | Interactive