JIM PADDOCK: Biography

Creative Director/Copywriter/Manager:

I am now a happy, free, available freelance human being

I used to be:

• Chief Creative Officer/EVP - Fitzgerald+CO, Atlanta. Fourteen happy years.
• Creative Director/SVP - Austin Kelley Advertising, Atlanta. Seven challenging years.
• Principal/CD/CW - Paddock, Smith & Aydlotte, Atlanta. Seven wonderful years.
• Copywriter/ACD - Burton-Campbell, Atlanta. Three terrific years.
• Copywriter - Campbell-Ewald, Detroit. One stupid year. And a half.

Personal creative recognition:

• One Show
• Cannes
• Clios (four gold statues)
• ANDY’s
• IBA
• Show South
• Obies
• local, regional and national Addy’s

Creative Director recognition:

Same as above, but including

• CA
• One Show gold
• One Show bronze
• Mercury Awards
• and multiple Adweek Best TV spots, most recently in May, 2003

Management highlights:

• Hired, developed and supervised some of Atlanta’s best creative talent.
• Also successfully managed the merger of Fitzgerald+CO’s creative department with the local McCann creative department. Try that sometime.

Range of account experience:

Don’t get me started.

Recent freelance work:

• InterContinental Hotels
• Randstad
• Georgia Power
• Solis Hotels
• The St. Joe Company
• Mauna Lani Hawaiian Resort
• Don Pablo’s Restaurants
• Coca-Cola
• Fanta and Coke Blak
• Massey Ferguson tractors

Historical:

• Named Atlanta’s best copywriter, radio writer and creative director by Adweek
• Wrote an episode of WKRP way back when
• Speaker at various creative seminars, nationally
• Working voice talent