Josh Sklar

Heresy's mission is to challenge tradition where it has failed, transforming an industry that must be reinvented in order to survive. In marketing speak: Evolving traditional marketers into digitally-savvy marketing leaders. - Discovery - Evaluations - Interviewing/screening candidates - Recommendation reports - Workshops - Mentoring - Master classes - Writing/Coordinating (digital/integrated) RFPs - Ideation/Blueprints - Project Plans

This advertising industry trade magazine is published out of Malaysia for consumption in southeast Asia. I was listed on the cover of a "Managers of the Millennium" issue just before Y2K hit and was invited to write a new media column for the next one. I've been doing it ever since.

Based in Singapore • Worked closely with the MDs in each office (Singapore, London, Palo Alto, NYC, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai) to develop passion and skills for creativity within the agency. • Raised the quality/innovation of the creative in the network to match the analytical excellence.

• Started non-hierarchical ‘virtual’ network of new media professionals to target small-to-medium businesses and to help achieve quality of life for all involved while maintaining maximum quality of product. • Designed a comprehensive Web-based collaborative project management system.

Managed all online activities for communicating with the more than 7,000 school board members and 560,000 district employees (for serving over four million Texas public school students).

Bali/Singapore/Jakarta, Indonesia/Austin, Texas Started online catalog business to sell Southeast Asian art through the World Wide Web. One of first online shops in the world. Reported in Time International – July, 1998 issue. E-commerce sales model used by future top brand clients.

Based in New York City. • Helped guide the direction of this worldwide network in 14 countries, by being on the senior management team & the North American Board. • Helped develop & implement creative strategies. • Directly responsible for the level of quality in end product development.

Based in Singapore. • Business profitable from first year. • Grown to one of the top 40 agencies in the world in terms of revenues within three years. • Highest margins within the entire Cordiant network for any subsidiary. • Most industry awarded company in the Asia Pacific.

• I self-published a bi-weekly newsletter for the graphic design industry that went out to over 350 subscribing ad agencies and design houses. • I also wrote and designed 70+ page tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, FreeHand and on to supplement their education.

Began this Asia regional production/post-production video business with local partners within the Kedaung Group. Responsible for all creative and technical decisions as well as having a significant voice in direction of company. Managed day-to-day processes and employees.

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Established design and photography studio to manage needs of 23 conglomerate subsidiaries throughout Asia as well as a pre-press service bureau for both in-house and external business opportunities. Trained and managed staff of 30.

Based in Singapore.

Based in Austin, Texas.

Based in Ramat HaSharon, Israel. "Dimyon" means "imagination" in Hebrew. Clients included Digital Equipment Corporation (D.E.C.) and the Israeli Air Force.

Based in Austin, Texas.

Based in Austin, Texas • Wrote copy and scripts for various walk-in clients’ advertising and marketing needs. • Designed and produced layouts in the form of newspaper placements, coupons, brochures and fliers. • Helped students with dissertations, theses, résumés and cover letters.

I performed a number of duties including: • Maintaining a PDP-11/44 miniframe (Unix, backing up computer tapes). • Writing Global Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) testing programs in numerous languages.