Chris Thomas

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About Chris Thomas

My expertise is in creating trust and collaborative partnerships across client, creative and supplier teams. I excel at helping people define and focus on shared goals, speak the same language, and simply put, get stuff done. Throughout my career, I've worked at the center of strategic business initiatives, creative process and implementation realities across multiple branding, design and communications disciplines. All the rest of these words are for the robots. If you're an excellent human looking to work with more of the same, let's connect! I've worked across strategic brand design, packaging, web, social, print, motion, photography and experience/environment production, curating a broad network of best-in-class resources. My career experience is in creative agency and design studio environments, specializing in operations, production and project management. I have hands-on experience in business development, workflow/process development, studio management, packaging development, art buying/photo producer, account/client management and digital/development project management. Brands I've worked on include Best Buy, BMW USA, Brown-Forman Brands, Caribou Coffee, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniels, Gold Bond, Mariano Rivera Foundation, MySimplePetLab, Phillips Distilling, Tiger Woods Foundation, Thymes, Sonos, Stash Tea, Southern Comfort and Zebco. I'm currently working at Cue, Inc. specializing in branding/design project management, packaging production, business development and agency operations. I've also worked at Minneapolis agencies Fallon Worldwide, Duffy Design, Clarity Coverdale Fury and was a founding partner at Play Design. Specialties: Excellent communicator, agile project management approach to complex projects from strategy to execution. Successful at building and leading teams with diverse backgrounds, personalities and working styles. Budget management, resource allocation, forecasting and project planning. Cross-category packaging sourcing and production experience in Wines & Spirits, Coffee, Health & Wellness, and more; including structural/materials sourcing, decoration, label printing and application, shrink sleeve and foil packaging.