Divine was a massively funded "incubator" for high-tech companies. It was started by tech billionaire, Andrew J. "Flip" Filipowski and a Board of Directors that included William Wrigley and Michael Jordan (yes, the basketball player). In 2000-2001, Divine acquired 52 companies (over 50,000 people), including Web Design Group, Inc.

It was a good idea except that only two of the companies they bought were profitable - Web Design Group and one other small firm. After the market crashed, and Divine's IPO fell flat, there was no way to stop the bleeding. They shed 30,000 employees in a year and eventually folded in 2004.

I worked for Divine's marketing and professional services group. Despite the carnage around us we managed to drum up plenty of interesting work from new and existing clients.

ROLES:

Managed and mentored a 10 person team of designers, developers, and content experts.

Generated strong concepts and championed ideas with enthusiasm.

Lead interactive creative teams in concept creation and user experience

Oversaw the creation of concepts, storyboards, and presentation materials.

Presented advertising and design concepts and rationale to clients, mentored and prepared creative teams for presentations.

Developed corporate brand and marketing materials.

Played a key role in new business development.