Led Teams. Shaped Brands.

Twenty-three years leading creative teams, eighteen of them building SalonCentric's in-house agency. Creative Director and brand strategist based in Palm Harbor, FL. The record is here.

Experience

Principal & Creative Director, G Schultz Design LLC

2007 – Present
Palm Harbor, FL · Independent practice

Independent creative practice delivering brand identity, campaign design, product design, and AI-integrated production for clients across apparel, EdTech, and financial services. Own engagements end to end: strategy, creative direction, design execution, and production.

  • WorkGlass: designed and built a time-tracking and invoicing product for freelance creatives end to end, owning product design, interface, and brand. Now live at MyWorkGlass.com as a $20 one-time purchase, with a 10-post social campaign and brand guidelines.
  • PrintMark: built the pitch deck, narrative structure, and animated visual system a $30M commercial printer used to make its case to L'Oréal's purchasing and finance teams during a vendor re-bid. Still the company's go-to deck.
  • Mr. D Math: directed 50+ lessons of a self-paced math curriculum, producing 3D character animation, video, original music, and print coursework in-house.

Creative Director, SalonCentric

2008 – 2026
Tampa, FL · A L'Oréal USA company

Ran the in-house creative agency responsible for brand storytelling, design, and content strategy across 600+ retail stores, e-commerce, education, CRM, social, and internal communications, through 18 years of growth, national campaigns, rebrands, a monthly publication, and live events.

  • Led teams of 3 to 10+ across design, copy, and project management, running national campaigns across every channel.
  • Established a critique-driven team culture with clear creative targets, regular 1:1s, and real growth paths. Several team members stayed 10+ years.
  • Produced all SalonCentric and co-branded marketing across the store network. Built assets for partner brands that couldn't produce their own, and managed and corrected their co-branded emails.
  • Created event branding for SalonCentric's presence at the Premiere Shows and America's Beauty Show, plus ticket and in-store marketing for education classes and events. Directed a $300K model shoot to launch one show era.
  • Brought on PrintMark as SalonCentric's primary printer almost 17 years ago; the relationship has since expanded to other L'Oréal brands.
  • Built brand guidelines used across retail, digital, print, and event.
  • Built SalonCentric Magazine from launch, a hybrid catalog-editorial publication that ran 12 issues a year and generated six figures monthly.
  • Directed national campaign launches across store, social, CRM, and e-commerce.
  • Rebuilt production workflows with operations and marketing leadership, cutting turnaround time and expanding what the team could carry.

Art Director, EarthLink

2001 – 2008
Pasadena, CA

Led a team of designers supporting five business divisions across B2C and B2B channels. Partnered with marketing and product teams on integrated campaigns that kept EarthLink's brand consistent and recognizable.

  • Directed all marketing creative including digital, print, direct mail, and packaging.
  • Launched multiple product identities and co-branded campaigns that expanded consumer reach.
  • Developed brand standards for EarthLink and SK-EarthLink, used across every customer touchpoint.

Designer, Corbis Images

1998 – 2001
Los Angeles, CA

Developed design and branding for brochures, catalogs, self-mailers, user manuals, CD packaging, and specialty items promoting one of the world's largest photo archives.

  • Carried projects from brief to final production across print and early digital formats, with visual systems used in international marketing.

Designer, Westlight

1997 – 1998
Los Angeles, CA

Designed image catalogs and multimedia educational materials for one of the first digital stock libraries.

  • Created training materials and led a Photoshop seminar for 100+ photographers making the move from film to digital.

Education

B.A., Graphic Design California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo