Aaron Sagray

Current

Sr. Art Director at ThoughtMatrix
Owner/Creative Director at Feverish LLC

Past

Cofounder at TerraFrame, Inc.
Sr. Art Director at Decision Counsel
Creative Director at Tager Group

Art Director at Catapult Direct Marketing
Art Director at CKS
Art Director at marchFIRST
Art Director at USWeb/CKS

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Education

University of Colorado at Denver
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Recommended

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Connections

157 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

Aaron Sagray’s Summary

Aaron is an entrepreneur designer and marketeer who has built brands and created measurable revenue growth for, small businesses, start-ups and larger companies. Aaron is an expert in design and marketing for high-tech business to business and consumer-facing brands. Aaron has the unique perspective of being on both sides of the table, having worked at both creative agencies and startups. He is able to quickly digest the business and goals of his clients, and develop solutions that gain customers and drive revenue growth.

Currently, Aaron is consulting via his marketing company, Feverish. He is also in the planning phase of a new technology startup in the home theater space. He is looking for hardware and software technologist co-founders who have experience in embedded systems, wi-fi and client software.

Aaron Sagray’s Specialties:

user interaction design and evaluation, branding and identity, lead generation, customer loyalty programs, collateral design, website site design & development (XHTML/CSS), direct response and online marketing, UI development, c-level direct marketing design and response management, software interface design, marketing strategy.

Aaron Sagray’s Experience

Sr. Art Director

ThoughtMatrix

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)
Owner/Creative Director

Feverish LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

We provide creative web and print solutions with an emphasis on developing campaigns that fill the sales funnel. We can track leads from interest to conversion. This includes SEO and CPC campaign management as well as direct mail to web campaign development.
Cofounder

TerraFrame, Inc.

(Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — February 2009 (2 years 9 months)

Java development company building a next generation full stack development framework. I handled all of the business stuff, and UI design.
Sr. Art Director

Decision Counsel

(Design industry)

2005 — August 2006 (1 year)

Art Director on Network World, DEMO, Photobucket, Las Ramblas and other projects. It was fun. DC is a good company.
Creative Director

Tager Group

(Design industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years)

Creative direction on all projects. Clients included San Jose State and Cinequest. I highly recommend Carl Agers and Chris Taylor. Really smart guys!
Art Director

Catapult Direct Marketing

(Design industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year)

Direct marketing for C-level execs mostly. Clients included Tumbleweed, Xerox, and a bunch of smaller tech companies. Tom Beck runs a top notch team. This would be my first choice for a DM firm.
Art Director

CKS

(Public Company; Design industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years)

I designed 2 iterations of Logitech.com. Also did work for other big clients like Macromedia, Sun, Johnson & Johnson etc. Worked a lot of hours. learned a lot. See USWEB/CKS and marchFIRST profiles for more info.
Art Director

marchFIRST

(Public Company; Design industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years)

Mainly worked on a huge Visa training CDROM and the Apple in-store demos. Oh yeah, did some work on in-store demos for TIVO as well.
Art Director

USWeb/CKS

(Public Company; Design industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years)

See marchFIRST and CKS work history for more info. Same desk. Different jobs. Worked on a bunch of startup sites during the brief USWEB/CKS phase, I think.

Aaron Sagray’s Education

University of Colorado at Denver

Entrepreneurship Certificate , marketing, business , 2004 — 2005

Activities and Societies:

Bard Center
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Art , Graphic Design, Printing, Marketing , 1993 — 1997

Activities and Societies:

PCF, Dexter Art Club, Ski Club

Additional Information

Aaron Sagray’s Websites:

Aaron Sagray’s Interests:

software, entrepreneurship, new technology, graphic design, marketing, economics, professional networking, nature photography, jr. high church leadership, skiing/snowboarding, hiking, camping, gourmet cooking, socializing, digerati, web 2.0, reading, rocky mountains

Aaron Sagray’s Groups:

Denver Bard Center Entrepreneurship Council, TiE, American Marketing Association, Angel Capital Summit, TechStars

Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
Integrated Alliances
Revedia Group - Internet Retailer, Interactive Media, Online Brand Marketing Professionals Only.
Top Tier Open Networker
TiEcon
Bard Center for Entrepreneurship
Friends of Colorado
marchFIRST Alumni /Former employees
Boulder Open Coffee Club