ADVERTISING WORK AND MORE
Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency
Title: Creative Supervisor in "Concepts" think tank division. Participated as copywriter and new product innovator.
Worked on the following accounts: BirdsEye, Frito-Lay, Gaines Dog Food, Tampons/Modess, Dream Whip, Geno's Pizza, Eastern Airlines, Milton Bradley/Playskool and the Dracket Company.
Wetherell Design Associates
New product consultant and inventor to toy industry. I conceive, develop and contribute marketing directions for my toy inventions: dolls, games, crafts, and boy's action figure concepts. Making presentations to Mattel, Hasbro/Playskool, Tyco, Western/Golden Books, Parker Brothers, Fisher-Price, Kenner, Galoob, and Playmates.
American Association Of Retired Persons AARP
Consultant for Women's History Month project, three years. Developed woman's questionnaire called One Woman's Profile and did subsequent analysis of responses.
Designed built and organized exhibit of profiles at New York Citicorp Center Atrium, Lincoln Center and Philadelphia's Market Square including organizing of daily entertainment and press promotion.
New York CITY Dept. of Housing, Preservation and Development
HOUSE SENSE PROGRAM: Educational consultant for promotion of good housing curriculum. Liaison between program and South Bronx inner city schools. Organized community interest to pursue better housing through awareness of tenant's rights using students K through High School. From onset, coordinator of annual city-wide Housing Fair.
BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Pathways For Youth
Organization maintaining summer camps in Bear Mountain State Park for low income urban youth and year around Castle Hill Community Center in the Bronx. My participation was an active ingredient in the development of on-going, community-based advisory board at the Castle Hill Center.
FACT (Food Animal Concern Trust)
Consumer Advisory Group promoting safer meat and dairy production. Fact's goal is both to achieve a healthier product for public consumption and more humane farming conditions for the raising of livestock. I participated in marketing of NEST EGGS, an associated company that raises and distributes eggs laid by free-range hens.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
New York Zoological Society (Bronx Zoo)
Title: Coordinator Of Educational Services/ Children and teenage programs at The Central Park Zoo. Developed and directed daily public programs using visual aids geared toward teaching wildlife conservation to the public. I solicited, trained and supervised a staff of 65 young volunteers from varied cultural, racial and economic backgrounds to act as zoo guides and lecturers. Their activities ranged from giving live animal demonstrations to puppet shows and management of a zoological souvenir shop. My responsibilities included promotion of the program by appearances on TV talk shows≤ daily dealings with the media, writing press releases and the development of unique zoological visual aids.
Toy Company Staff Positions
Title: Designer/ Inventor. Employed by the following toy companies:
Transogram, Remco, Argo, Springbok, Kohner, Ned Strongin Associates, Pressman Toys, Commonwealth Toys, Avon, Gund, Jolly Toy Company.
Product development included the following items:
Hug-A-Book Doll (TV promoted)
Inkless Printing
Walt Disney updated Mickey Concept
Glitter Knitter Craft
Wiggles & Giggles Doll (TV promoted)
Game Of Love (TV promoted)
Fire House Mouse Game
Nurse Purse
Giant Comic Strip Puzzle
Bubble Up Bubble Tub (TV promoted)
Maximum Sweat Wrestler Figures (TV promoted)
Paper Mill Playhouse (New Jersey) Costume design for children's theatre.
Ross Common Playhouse (Pennsylvania) Set designer for summer stock.
Glamour Photography Magazine: Art Director.
Esquire Magazine: Set designer for industrial films.
Yellow Cab Taxi Driver
Model for artist Rolf Armstrong: Last Armstrong Girl for Brown & Bigelow Calendar Art.
FINE ARTS
Paintings and sculpture exhibited at the following New York Soho Galleries:
Ivan Karp Gallery, Gallery 10, Hundred Acre Gallery, Butterfield 8 Gallery, Croquis Gallery, Loft Gallery.
TRAVELS
Traveled to remote corners of all seven continents with my two young children, KIELY and WELLS. Often stayed with native families.
Traveled to: Iceland, Kenya, Indian Tibet, India, Easter Island, the Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Australia, Tasmania, Siberia, Greenland, the Soviet Union, Argentina, Scotland, and Chile.
PERSONAL STATUS
Single, residing in Manhattan
Sports participation: Fencing
Parent of two, both deceased