Conrad Warre

Current

Design Director at Technology Review

Past

Creative Director at Smarter Travel Media LLC
Creative Director at Ziff Davis
Creative Director at ZDNet

Production Manager at Rykodisc
Art Director at Discover Magazine

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Conrad Warre’s Summary

Skills & Experience Summary.
Award-winning design with strategic management experience. Diverse project experience, with a history of increasing revenue, designs and redesigns, and traffic-building. Skills include team-building, interface design, technology development and user-testing, and reconciling extraordinary time constraints and projected budgetary requirements. Hands-on skills include all major Design and Utility Applications (cross-platform), integrating multiple media, building cross-divisional corporate consensus, SEO optimization, conceiving, and developing innovative technology solutions.

Conrad Warre’s Specialties:

Marketing and Editorial Design and Design Management, Team-Building, UI Development and Testing, Cross-Divisional Project Management, Brand Design and Management, Client Services, Integrated Marketing, Interactive Strategy, Campaign Management, Print & Web Design, Vendor Control, Copywriting, Multimedia, Integrated Media Project Management, Site Redesign and Optimization, and Search Engine Optimization.

Conrad Warre’s Experience

Design Director

Technology Review

(Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Responsible for MIT's Technology Review Brand ID, Website day-to-day Design and long-range UI, including continuous site re-design and enhancement. Translating Editorial content to Interactive, proposing and developing unique Online content, including producing Video content both National and International. Producing collateral materials including circulation and marketing and dedicated subscriber content. Interfacing with editorial, marketing, engineering, circulation departments, MIT.edu, and external partners.
Creative Director

Smarter Travel Media LLC

(Public Company; EXPE; Online Media industry)

January 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Smarter Travel Media (now owned by Expedia) owns and publishes several online travel sites, including Smarter Travel.com, a comprehensive travel resource destination site, and BookingBuddy.com the pre-eminent travel search site, utilizing proprietary AJAX solutions to search over 130 vendors and partners site within one configured search in real-time. Other STM properties include TripMania.com, and MyBusinessTravel.com.
Creative Director

Ziff Davis

(Public Company; Internet industry)

2001 — 2006 (5 years )

# Managed creative services for multiple divisions and business partners, including integrated media projects with eSeminars, Webcasts, Print and Tradeshows.
# Conceived unique sponsorship revenue possibilities, and developed large-scale ecommerce opportunities for Major Accounts.
Creative Director

ZDNet

(Public Company; Internet industry)

1997 — 2000 (3 years )

Responsibilities and Achievements:

* Developed Interactive revenue projects.
* Responsible for annual budgets, hiring and firing, performance reviews.
* Worked through the IPO in 1998 with Ziff Davis Corporate Division, and subsequent IPO of ZDZ (ZDNet) tracking stock.
* Personally interfaced with all major accounts including 3Com, Barnes & Noble, Compaq, Dell, Digital, DLJDirect, E*Trade, FirstUSA, Ford, HP, IBM, Intel, J&R Music, Micron, Microsoft, Oracle, Pacific Bell, Sony, Sun, Yahoo.
* Ziff Davis Daredevil of the Year 1998
Production Manager

Rykodisc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

June 1991 — October 1993 (2 years 5 months)

Managed all design and production. Label liaison with signed artists including Frank Zappa, Yoko Ono, and David Bowie, artists' management, legal and business affairs, and marketing. Initiated technical advancement of in-house capability to produce better quality packaging, marketing materials and concepts. Reduced costs and turnaround time to manufacturing and distribution. Reported directly to the President.

Received an award for excellence from the AIGA in 1992
Brought the platinum-selling act SUGAR to the label.
Designed and produced the award-winning "Copper Blue" metal pack for single CD.
Art Director

Discover Magazine

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

1987 — 1991 (4 years )

Responsible for art and production on monthly magazine. Designed and supervised each issue, approved press runs on site, managed a staff of five people plus freelancers, and originated stories. Coordinated frequent meetings with the Editor-in-Chief, photographers, agencies, illustrators, writers, subjects, and outside vendors. Stayed within budget, and met all deadlines, part of the first enterprise team to ever make Discover Magazine profitable.