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About Me

Chief imagination officer at a modest, full service advertising agency with the ability to accept and succeed on any creative challenge under any deadline. Project management, from stellar concept to compelling completion!

Proven concepting, strategy, design, copy writing and content development skills with the consistent ability to persuade, educate and communicate messages, brands and positions. Big picture thinking, using creativity to turn challenges into solutions.

Adventurer, entrepreneur, husband to an incredible wife and father of two awesome children.

Location:
United States, Phoenixville, PA
Current organization:
Virtual Farm Creative, Inc.
Past organizations:
TEDx Phoenixville
Current role:
Creative Director
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Creativity, Project Managament, Copy Writing, Commercial Design
I am:
Atheist, Athlete, Concerned citizen, Designer, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Musician, Parent, Promoter, Writer/Editor
Languages:
English
My website links:
Virtual Farm Creative, TEDxPhoenixville
Universities:
Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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I'm passionate about

Creativity. Everything I do– from client work to parenting– I attempt to do with originality and a uniqueness that makes it memorable, special and effective. Creativity can solve any problem.

An idea worth spreading

Human beings are not sustainable, we are evolving into a species dependent upon consuming. If all of the insects on Earth died tomorrow, the Earth would die in a matter of days. If all of the humans died tomorrow, the Earth would flourish. What do we collectively give back to the system? I would like to see individual ecological efforts broadened so that human beings start to become as important to Earth as Earth is to us.

Talk to me about

design, writing, art, music and adventure!

People don't know that I'm good at

Creating nicknames that stick.
Classic foosball.
Critiquing music and literature.

Most everything else at which I am fairly decent is well documented!

My TED Story

A huge fan of TED and where I first discovered biologist Richard Dawkins. Since then I have have become a TED enthusiast and evangelist. In 2010 I was on the organizing committee that brought the first TEDx conference to the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region.

TEDxPhoenixville is held in September but is proceeded by smaller monthly salons featuring TED talks.

Of the live TEDx events I have attended, educational messages have struck me deepest. Educators speaking about the inanity of teaching and learning subjects that are not needed in contexts that are misunderstood. We need to stop talking about a broken education system and enact change. Everyone knows that we are not preparing children for a global economy and that they are learning things that they will never need in which they have no interest but the next step is enacting real change.

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  • A comment on Talk: William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design

    Aug 29 2012: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage but commerce often works against design evolution. Don't you think a better car can be designed, for all species, that didn't depend upon internal combustion? The humble designers (innovators) need to be strong enough to ram through the strategy of hope everywhere, all the time.
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    A comment on Talk: Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

    Jun 28 2011: No scientists dispute the linguistic curve but most public schools do not introduce a foreign language until middle schools. I notice a common thread among TED speakers identifying big changeable issues in education without education responding with a positive reaction.

    Simply speaking the American educational system needs to embrace practical, project based learning. Expose American babies to Mandarin… expose American toddlers to mathematics, computers, art and music with real world teaching.

  • A comment on Talk: Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness

    Jun 23 2011: We are adult human beings with the innate ability to solve problems. If one of our problems is that we are unhappy more than we are happy we should be able to devise a solution regardless of our statistical fit. Take a break from the life that's bringing you down and make a list of the things you need to do to be happier and execute. It's as easy as it sounds.

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