Mikael Merritt is a designer and art supervisor living in Brooklyn, New York.

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STAFF POSITIONS

2010 . Present

SAATCHI & SAATCHI HEALTHCARE

art supervisor

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Integral in building an interactive department within agency
• Organized and taught breakfast learning sessions for the agency in creating websites using CMS tools
• Digital lead on pitch tactics
• Created an interactive community among new hires and existing interactive creatives through organized outings, rss feeds, and vendor presentations
• Manage art needs on several accounts across various professional and integrated healthcare professions

2007 . 2010

SAATCHI & SAATCHI HEALTHCARE

senior art director

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Client presentations
• Concept pitches
• Organizing vendor capability presentations
• Designing and supervising brand-specific campaign
• Grown business through exceptional work from $4M to $11M
• Supervised integrated print and interactive campaigns
• Provided support on data visualization for other brands
• Helped tutor other departments and teams on trial-by-error processes

2006 . 2007

MEDICUS

art director

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Print design for consumer healthcare brands
• Design and manage style guide for a multinational company
• Collaboration with packaging AOR, Landor Associates

2005 . 2006

CORBETT ACCEL

design director

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provided design and concept support on print materials and websites
• Specialized in structural graphics, packaging, die creation and print production
• Managed freelance help

1999 . 2001

AKQA

designer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designed websites, promotional material, premiums, and as designer on Infiniti/Nissan, MayoClinic, Oral-B, Harley-Davidson, and NOOR accounts my responsibilities included oversight of all print and promotional collateral for the DC office as well as working with the programmers and production team.

2001 . 2002

CHINA

teacher

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Taught oral English to first-twelfth grade students in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province.

FREELANCE POSITIONS

2006 . 2006

Y&R BRANDS

designer/assistant to the director of design

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• I helped to develop creative for the reinvention of the company while working directly with the head of design as a contract designer. Included an intranet, company branding, and online and print materials for their global partners meetings, which serve as a consortium for the Y&R family of companies.

2004 . 2006

MASS™

art director

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• I wore many hats for a small Soho shop that specialized in premium liquor advertising and special events for Belvedere, Remy Martin, Tanqueray, and Don Julio.

2004 . 2005

GRANDSTAND ENTERTAINMENT

designer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As the only designer at this 4-person “B” class label under the BMG umbrella… we designed, produced, and managed our own catalog of talent. We also produced other iconic artists’ re-released and greatest hits albums.

2003 . 2005

KPR ADVERTISING

night studio manager/production artist

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Duties varied from corrections and QC on sales-aids to die creation, comping, and work-flow management.

2003 . 2003

DCA ADVERTISING/DENTSU AMERICA

production artist

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Production artist and CAD operator on print materials. Worked closely with studio manager and art staff to create magazine spread resizes for Pioneer, cover retouching for Newsweek, storyboarding for Canon, comping and typesetting.

2010

NYU CERTIFICATE IN WEB DEVELOPMENT

• I am learning XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, JQUERY and some AJAX in order to represent my artistic talents more accurately and to become a better designer and supervisor.

1995 . 1999

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

• BFA in Graphic Design  BFA in Industrial Design  AAS in Applied Photography