Ron Johnson

Current

Chief Marketing Officer at Traffic Engine, Inc.
Admin at Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
Managing Partner at International Front

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Past

Creative Director at Sleepy Giant Entertainment
Creative Manager at Fox Interactive Media
Creative Manager at IGN Entertainment/FOX Interactive Media

Art Director at Ron Johnson Design
Art Director at Murad
Web Designer at marchFIRST
Web Designer at US Web/CKS
Web Designer at E3 Technologies

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Education

San Francisco Art Institute

Recommended

6 people have recommended Ron

Connections

458 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

Ron Johnson’s Summary

Creative director and industry veteran with 12+ years experience building memorable online user experiences. It has been my pleasure to complete projects for many dynamic clients including: Sony Online, Fox, Activision, MySpace, Botox, Mazda, Epic Games, Blizzard, THQ, Codemasters, and many others.

Ron Johnson’s Specialties:

Innovative, intelligent marketing solutions for the games industry. Extensive experience in branding, information architecture, visual design, copywriting and content creation, and usability testing/human interactions.

Ron Johnson’s Experience

Chief Marketing Officer

Traffic Engine, Inc.

(Internet industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Admin

Electronic Entertainment Industry Network

(Computer Games industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Admin for the EEIN, the games industry professional networking group.
Managing Partner

International Front

(Computer Games industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Creative lead at International Front, a full-service marketing and interactive design agency. Adept at branding/positioning, digital media, web design, environments, collateral, identity design and naming, market research.
Creative Director

Sleepy Giant Entertainment

(Computer Games industry)

January 2009 — July 2009 (7 months)
Creative Manager

Fox Interactive Media

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Internet industry)

March 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Creative lead/manager of 6-man in-house direct marketing agency. Internal clients included: MySpace, IGN Consumer Products, FilePlanet.com, GameSpy Arena, 3D Gamers.com, and others. Reported to V.P.

Strategy, art direction, and design of promotional campaigns, mini-sites, direct e-mail, and flash and static ads.
Creative Manager

IGN Entertainment/FOX Interactive Media

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

March 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 8 months)

Creative lead/manager of 6-man in-house direct marketing agency. Internal clients included: MySpace, IGN Consumer Products, FilePlanet.com, GameSpy Arena, 3D Gamers.com, and others. Reported to V.P.

Strategy, art direction, and design of promotional campaigns, mini-sites, direct e-mail, and flash and static ads.
Art Director

Ron Johnson Design

(Design industry)

1997 — 2005 (8 years )

Freelance Art Direction.

Clients include: California White, Puro Muerto, Avant Insurance Managers, Guthy-Renker, Norac Pharma, others.
Art Director

Murad

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Cosmetics industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years )

Branding and creative direction for company-wide marketing initiatives. Mentored development/expansion of competent internal creative department and managed external agencies/freelancers. Reported to V.P.

Art direction and design of projects including: Brand repositionioning/relaunch, advertising, packaging, catalog, web relaunch (Murad.com), direct, collateral, e-mail, book design, promotional, display, trade show graphics.
Web Designer

marchFIRST

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MRCH; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Valuable member of dynamic agency creative team. Reported to creative director.

Design and production design of B2C websites: Automotive: MazdaUSA.com and Toyota Financial Services, Mazda direct response mini-sites. Pharmacutical: Botox.com and Allergan.com. Fine arts: PacificSymphony.org

Art directed photoshoots and oversaw all QTVR production.
Web Designer

US Web/CKS

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1999 — 2001 (2 years )

Valuable member of agency creative team. Reported to creative director.

Design and production design of B2C websites: Automotive: MazdaUSA.com and Toyota Financial Services, Mazda direct response mini-sites. Pharmacutical: Botox.com and Allergan.com. Fine arts: PacificSymphony.org

Art directed photoshoots and oversaw all QTVR production.
Web Designer

E3 Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 7 months)

Contract web design consulting for tech recruiting firm. Created/produced site, e-mail marketing, and print collateral.