1. Jose Andrade
1350 N. Wells St. Chicago, Illinois - 60610 • jose.create@gmail.com • 646-543-5086 • 646-391-6956
SUMMARY
‣ Agency operations and leadership to include technology, planning, strategy,
project management, UX/IA and production teams
‣ Building and evolving organizational, capabilities and technology infrastructures
‣ Technology Innovations, Strategies & Tactics
‣ Business analysis, P&L, planning, and growth
‣ 7 years digital development and leadership in various technology systems and platforms
(e.g HTML, Flash, CSS, CMS, DAM, CRM, Infrastructure, UX/IA, Database, tablet, mobile)
EXPERIENCE –
AbelsonTaylor - Dates: October 2013 - Present
• Role: VICE PRESIDENT – DIRECTOR OF INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGY
• Responsibilities:
‣ Lead, manage and resource development teams, vendors, low cost providers across technology initiatives and projects
‣ Work closely with digital strategy and initiatives across teams, clients and brands
‣ Work closely with agency leadership to evolve agency digital offering
‣ Evolve technology offering, processes and innovations
‣ Mentor and manage staff growth, performance and issues management
‣ Represent the technology arm of the agency in client and industry facing presentations
‣ Participate on corporate level task forces towards identifying efficiencies,
best practices and standards across agencies
• Services: Digital tactics & strategy, interactive and new media, web design & development, web marketing,
social media initiatives, events, multimedia, video, mobile, tablet
• Clients: abbvie, AstraZeneca, Amgen, Daiichi Sankyo, Lilly, Pfizer, Teva, UCB, Vertex, Purdue
Publicis Life Brands: Medicus - Dates: December 2009 – October 2013
• Role: TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
• Responsibilities:
‣ Establish, oversee, and evolve agency technology infrastructures, processes and capabilities
‣ Lead, manage and resource development teams, vendors, low cost providers across technology initiatives and projects
‣ Counsel on digital strategy and initiatives across teams, clients and brands
‣ Work closely with agency leadership to evolve agency digital offering
‣ Build technology schema, use cases, prototypes, presentations
‣ Mentor and manage staff growth, performance and issues management
‣ Represent the technology arm of the agency in client and industry facing presentations
‣ Participate on corporate level task forces towards identifying efficiencies,
best practices and standards across agencies
• Services: Digital tactics & strategy, interactive and new media, web design & development, web marketing,
social media initiatives, events, multimedia, video, mobile, tablet
• Clients: Abbott, Gilead, Sanofi-Aventis, United Therapeutics, Meade Johnson, AstraZeneca, Proctor & Gamble
Tribal DDB - Dates: August 2009 - November 2009 (CONTRACT POSITION)
• Role: OPERATIONS MANAGER
• Responsibilities:
‣ Managed agency infrastructure and resources
‣ Developed process and delivery roadmap
‣ Established and maintained relevant vendor relationships
‣ Established resource management approach
‣ Managed schedules and team calendars
‣ Worked closely with project management, the creative department, account, and finance to ensure
appropriate balance of budgets, timelines, and resources
• Services: Digital tactics & strategy, Interactive and new media, collateral, web design & development,
web marketing, social media initiatives, events, multimedia, video, mobile
• Clients: Don Julio, H&R Block, Merck, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott
Nition Design (A Chandler Chicco Company) - Dates: April 2004 - August 2009
• Role: OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
• Responsibilities:
‣ Launched and managed a full service design, interactive and production division
for the Chandler Chicco Agency
‣ Lead architect and developer for multi channel projects
(.php, .asp, CMS, database, Flash, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
‣ Developed a capabilities offering and rate card to include print, mechanical art, web, video, new media, interactive, new
business, graphic design, and production services
‣ Implemented processes, policies, conventions, best practices, and marketing strategies
‣ Established administrative infrastructure to include, comprehensive business plan, staffing, and agency growth

2. ‣ Developed and deployed a full technical infrastructure to include, workstations, communications, file server and services,
standard application sets, archival/de-archival system, file sharing systems
‣ Lead technical and development teams to multi-channel project execution on various technology platforms
‣ Oversaw all studio functions to include strategy, task delegation, time and budget estimating, studio vision/evolution,
training, people/process management, P&L
‣ Acted as division representative to agency stakeholders, clients, and vendors
• Services: Print and direct advertising, graphic design, brand identity, collateral, web design & development, web marketing, social
media, events, interactive, video
• Clients: Olympus, Coca-Cola, Genzyme, Novartis, Novo-Nordisk, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, Allergan, UCB
AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) - Dates: September 2002 - April 2004
• Role: DESIGN/PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
• Responsibilities:
‣ Responsible for the creation, direction, overall branding, look and feel of the company identity and all marketing material
‣ Developed interactive CD/DVD ROM, e-marketing, websites, microsites, as well as event technologies
‣ Delegated tasks to and managed eight designers, production artists, as well as two developers
‣ Designed and developed look, feel, and production workflow of flagship magazine Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP)
‣ Directed event design, video, interactivity, production, workflow, and on site facilitation
‣ Strategized marketing and communication initiatives and direction
‣ Delivered and presented growth and strategy plans to executive board and key stakeholders
• Services: Print advertising, graphic design, magazine publishing, online identity, web graphics, e-marketing, events,
webcasting, interactive and new media
• Clients: Internal design division
Inergy Group - Dates: November 1999 – September 2002
• Role: STUDIO SERVICES MANAGER
• Responsibilities:
‣ Directed creative infrastructure of organization to include conceptualization, design, project management,
client contact, and hardware/software infrastructure
‣ Developed interactive CD/DVD ROM, e-marketing, websites, microsites, video
‣ Oversaw and managed graphic design and production teams
‣ Reviewed, established, and implemented studio procedures, workflow, and digital infrastructure
‣ Managed staff to meet daily deadline requirements and workload
‣ Maintained vendor and client relations updating database information and services as needed
‣ Researched emerging technologies, applied, deployed, and taught relevant technologies to staff
• Services: Interactive design and development, marketing strategy, CD-Rom authoring, graphic design, brand identity
• Clients: IBM, American Express, Xerox, Fujifilm, iWeb, Network Solutions, Barnes & Noble
Foote, Cone & Belding - Dates: February 1993 - December 1999
• Role: STUDIO MANAGER
• Responsibilities:
‣ Reviewed, considered, and managed the workflow and technical infrastructure of four studio departments
(A/V, digital production studio, imaging print studio, traditional comp studio)
‣ Developed first in market immersive websites for Citibank, Merck, Jamaica tourism (.asp, Shockwave, DHTML)
‣ Developed client and internal digital asset management system
‣ Developed file sharing workflows across agencies and vendors
‣ Deployed growth plan to foresee and execute studio futures
‣ Researched emerging technologies, applied, deployed, and taught relevant technologies to studio body
‣ Delegated and managed daily client deliverables
‣ Managed account parameters to include estimates, proposals, conferences, and presentations
‣ Worked closely with IT to develop, maintain and evolve technical infrastructure
• Services: Print advertising (general, direct, and broadcast), brand identity and strategy, web design, multimedia
• Clients: Colgate, AT&T, Nabisco, Tropicana, Lucent, Gevalia, Merck, Citibank, Universal Studios, United States Postal Service

3. Education
• School Of Visual Arts Advanced Graphic Design 2000
• United Digital Artists Web Tools and Technologies Certificate 1999
• Pratt Institute B.A. Advertising & Design 1986
Achievements
• Art Directors Club Judge for NJ, NY portfolio review 2009
• Webby Awards Lead architect/designer for four websites 2005
Affiliations
• U.S. Army Veteran
• Graphic Arts Guild
• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
• Art Directors Club (ADC)
• 4A’s
• Adobe beta development and response team
• Apple development