A Little About Me.
Thanks for visiting my healthcare site. Through the years, I’ve had the pleasure of working on a variety of great healthcare and wellness brands like Advent Health, Baptist Health, For Eyes Optical, Target Optical, Galen College of Nursing, Quorum Health, Wilmington Health, Sinusonic, St. Joseph’s Health System, CHS, Mortenson Family Dental, Smiles Club, and more. I’ve enjoyed the challenges of creating interesting, award-winning, results-getting work for this highly specialized and regulated industry. In addition, I find working on healthcare clients provides a feeling of making a real difference in the lives of others.
The Coxswain Leadership Award is the most meaningful award I’ve been fortunate enough to receive.
This award is given out by the CEO of the OvareGroup Holding Company to someone across their entire network of agencies that demonstrates creativity, innovation and gets results. The recipient gets an oar with their name on it that is displayed at the headquarters for a year.
What People Are Saying
“He has an amazing ability to translate strategic insight into brilliant creative solutions aimed at growing the bottom line.”
— Jennifer Stillwell, EVP Greenville SC Tourism
“Always in pursuit of an idea that grabs someone and leaves a lasting mark - Stephen is simply relentless. His passion makes the team better, and well, the work better. And I'm bummed (ticked on some days) that we're not working together.”
— Tom Sloan, Founder “Have Spacesuit”
“His uncanny way of crafting words along with his keen eye for design can only be described as the next generation of design media.”
— Chris Rucker, Founder Kruhu
“Stephen stands out as one of the most inspired and talented creatives I've had the pleasure to work with in my career.”
— Jason Locke UX/Product Experience Leader
Always Exploring. Always Innovating.
While I place successful work above receiving awards and recognition, I have been fortunate enough to create work that’s been fortunate enough to receive recognition multiple times in the One Show, National Addys, the Communication Arts Ad Annual/Exhibit Issues, Graphis, The Emmys, and many other shows that recognize creativity and innovation. Many of these awards as recently as this year.
4 Quick Things
1. I’ve been fortunate enough to work on many well-known healthcare brands (and other brands) including: Fifth Third Bank, Fifth Third Private Banking, Quicken Loans, Tax Slayer, TD Bank, Carolina First, The Southern Bank, Rock Point Bank, Security Finance, Advance America, Verizon, Microsoft, Sears Auto Center, Wyndham Hotels, GE Appliances, Denny’s, KFC, Arm & Hammer, Goof Off, Idahoan, South Carolina Tourism and many other notable brands in tourism, finance, technology, real estate, retail and healthcare.
2. My first agency job was in a mailroom at an agency in Los Angeles. I took that unique opportunity to learn how an agency works, discovered portfolio school and never looked back.
3. I’ve helped many agencies garner creative recognition for the first time in shows like The One Show, The Communication Arts Ad Annual, The Communication Arts Exhibit Issue, The New York Festivals, The National Addys and more while achieving great results.
4. I’ve applied a lot of what I’ve learned playing music throughout my life to my career as a creative. Playing music with others has taught me about the creative process, refining ideas, collaboration, improvisation and presenting.