I'm an award-winning, digital-native CD with 12 years in the industry. Welcome to my portfolio.

McDonald’s / Avatar Hidden Object Game

Done: January 2010 | Filed under: Application, Favorite, Game, McDonald's, Microsite

I may have been clutching the hidden object hammer at the time I concepted this (see the Friskies game), but I’ll be damned if the McD / Avatar digital experience wasn’t a perfect nail.

We needed to bring Cameron’s game-changing film to life in a way that promoted Big Mac and stayed true to McDonald’s mantra of Simple, Easy Enjoyment. My idea: A best-in-class game with levels that are unlocked by codes on Big Mac boxes.

We sold it right through to McDonalds USA and went on to sell and execute it for the global McD system.

The results were almost as impressive as Cameron’s box office stats:

  • 19% lift in Big Mac sales
  • over a million site visitors
  • 11 minutes average time spent on site

Kidding.

Note: I was only involved in concepting this project.

Here’s a screenshot of the site.

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Cat Chow Pink

Done: August 2008 | Filed under: Cat Chow, Microsite

My role: Concepter, Creative Director

This microsite enabled cat lovers to help find a cure for breast cancer. After people completed a short quiz, Cat Chow donated $1 to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

  • Over 338,000 visitors came to CatChow.com/pink with an outstanding 87% conversion rate to the quiz page
  • Average site interaction time was over 3-1/2 minutes during the campaign
The client viewed this project as a huge success, assembling a 97-page document of sites that wrote about and linked to the promotion.
We took the Pink site down after the promotion, but you can still view a PDF of the work.

Capital One Cash > Featuring Randy Quaid!

Done: April 2007 | Filed under: Capital One, Microsite, Video

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My Role: Conceptor, Copywriter

The thrill of Randy Quaid voicing my script more than made up for the sluggish pacing of this piece, or the last minute change from live action to animation.

(Randy, holla if you want to see my Christmas Vacation 3 treatment!)

This site illustrated the folly of rival cash back cards by comparing them to warped fairy tales. Here’s a clip of it in action.