Creative Team
The marketing creative department is a multi-disciplined, fully-integrated creative team that creates effective, best-in-class, and marketing and communication materials and strategically and efficiently delivers these assets for the continuity of the brand throughout the university.
The creative department exists in three teams:
Design
Visual Storytelling
Brian James
Interim Marketing Lead | Senior Director, Creative
Thomas Swiech
Creative Studio Manager
Asset and Content Curation
The asset and content curation team manages platforms and resources that give the university community access to a broad range of assets for their visual and creative needs. We provide , the latest , downloadable brand assets including wordmarks, fonts and graphics, and user , our self-service digital asset management system. We manage trademark and licensing agreements and online waiver collection, ultimately helping to safeguard our Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë assets and brand.
Carrie Chisholm
Director of Asset and Content Curation
Emily Salerno
Content Production Specialist
Design
Design focuses on two areas: central strategic design and partnering with units through our Internal Agency. Our central strategic design fully supports university initiatives and UCM work, while our internal agency serves partners with Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë communicators and marketers through a charge-back model — specifically selective of assignments that elevate the Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë brand.
Mark Werle
Design Director
Deborah Allen
Production Artist
Rob Azarcon
Senior Graphic Designer
Alli Goimarac
Senior Graphic Designer
Sue Layton
Project Manager of University Branding
Kelsey Stark
Junior Graphic Designer
Visual Storytelling
The visual storytelling team provides highly visual mediums of video, photo and motion graphics that align to UCM’s strategic initiatives and tell Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë’s story. We promote the Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë brand and raise the university's reputation through visual storytelling; provide photo assets by capturing classrooms, research, campus and lifestyle that are distributed on the DAM; and offer assignment photography for a fee, including events, portraits and requests.
Vinny Varsalona
Director of Visual Storytelling
Di-ay Battad
Principal Video Producer
Rebecca Devereaux
SMultimedia Specialist
Kevin Lorenzi
Senior Photographer