Jim Ballard
Creative Director
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Ballard is a seasoned Creative Director and experience designer with over a decade of hands-on leadership delivering web, interactive, and multimedia work for global brands. He has led multi-million dollar accounts—most notably as Senior Art Director on the Ram Trucks account at SapientNitro—overseeing experience design, content strategy, photography, CG and model-year site updates while earning industry recognition. Jim founded and ran Ballard Interactive Group and now directs Banner Works, bringing rare end-to-end expertise from concept and rich media production to digital ad design and OLA delivery. He’s worked across travel, finance, tech and consumer sectors for clients like American Express, Emirates and HP, and has translated creative strategy into measurable business impact (e.g., a 50% revenue lift during an Emirates engagement). Based in Boston, he balances perfectionist craft with pragmatic production leadership and occasional teaching experience in web design.
12 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Michigan
Github Skills (6)
vagrant7
docker6
ansible6
ruby6
virtualization5
automation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gridmaster/ScanOpts
Feb 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
gridmaster/gigs2u
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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