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A brand with high awareness but lower preference, University of Phoenix was an opportunity to transform a brand to reflect the positive change happening internally. Brand transformation included redesign of the signature, new look and feel as well as voice and tone. All materials were done in-house.

creative team: Jeff Kerrin, Jane Brown, Amy Low, Michael Collins, Morten Bustrup, Jeff Carino, Stephanie Fanelli, Vera Springett, Dante Dimbayu, Domuel Bacani, Jeanette Karthaus,  Linda Jaskol, Trista Sobeck, Mary Barry, Amanda Cooper, Frank Mueller, Brian Pobuda, Brandon Powell, Leslie Gospill, Claudia Provencio, Gabriela Rossi, Shawnda Williams, Gabriela Brigidio

The culmination of success for Phoenix students and great opportunity to showcase the brand, National Commencement is held in Phoenix every year with thousands of students and their families and friends participating. This year, we wanted to "take over" Phoenix and connect with local folks as well as the students visiting. A strong out of home presence included bus shelters, banners, signage on the venue and a social media connection to give advice to graduating students. 

Created in the merger between life science heavy-weights, Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen, Life Technologies became the parent brand. I oversaw the implementation of first year deliverables, built a virtual team to execute, and mapped out brand architectures for the combined company. Working with the brand team, I created the positioning statement for the Applied Biosystems brand, testing it with consumers, and gaining buy-in with executives. 

As the beginning of the smart phone technology wave, Sun Microsystems planned to capitalize on this trend by placing the Java brand at the epicenter. The strategy was to create an ingredient brand-- a consumer friendly brand-- that could be placed in software and on hardware. My role was to make the venerated Java brand more consumer-friendly without alienating developers and engineers. Having no creative team and two weeks to create the logo, I assembled a virtual team of designers. The design team created over 70 logos that we narrowed to five to test with focus groups of developers and consumers. Feedback was unusually conclusive and the brand team moved forward with the resulting final logo. Additional work included the opportunity to roll out the logo through advertising campaigns, through internal campaigns to gain support and momentum, and through strategy on how to negotiate with partners on how to use the logo as an ingredient brand.  

SGI rebranded in 1997 to compete more effectively in the server market. Overseeing this global rebrand, I met with each functional area, created a brand team, and trained employees, partners and vendors on the new brand.  

Design thinking is a powerful tool for creating successful, customer-centric, quick to market solutions. In this project, I led the team in searching for both short-term low cost solutions as well as longer-term innovative breakthrough solutions for welcoming new students to the University of Phoenix.