Welcome. 

As an accomplished agency director with over eighteen years experience in the field of advertising & marketing, I've had the opportunity to work with some amazing people and shops. This portfolio shows only a small portion of the work I've been a part of.

During the past several years, I've focused on Makr, an organizational development consultancy, specializing in creative organizations. But I also live the Maker ethos, and continued to take on creative production assignments.

Currently open to a full-time head of operations or management team position. Available in both the NYC metro and Portland OR areas, will travel.

Contact Ed @ edwinburgoyne@verizon.net  or call: 201-452-2416 (cell)  

Biography

I run Makr — a organizational development consultancy that specializes in creative agency and internal brand operations. We focus on people, process & cultural development to drive creativity and innovation. It's not just about building process in your agency, it's about creating an environment where people are engaged and creativity can happen. 

I use a range of organizational development thinking to help you build effective teams and a culture that supports cross-disciplinary collaboration, multidisciplinary views and organizational-wide creativity. I specialize in Oxd the blending of user experience and design thinking with traditional organizational development theory.

Makr helps teams build & leverage connections among the chaos — so you can focus on the teamwork of creativity. 

Recently, Ed was the managing director at Plus, an independent ad agency in New York. Before Plus, Ed was a full-time executive level consultant for various agencies in the NYC area. Prior to that he headed the Production department for Taxi NYC. During that time he built the entire department from the ground up at the agency's inception into New York, where he has produced a wide range of integrated projects from digital & traditional to the unconventional. Ed's contributions led to award-winning work which helped contribute to Taxi being named Small Agency of the Year by the AAAA's, two years in a row for 2007 and 2008.

During his career, Ed has been on the management teams of several agencies, running operations and numerous integrated production, studio, project management and IT departments for agencies in the New York City area. His background includes; Vice President, Director of Production for Cossette Post in New York, Creative Services Director for Lois EJL/USA (George Lois' last agency), six years as VP, Studio Services for Ambassador Marketing and stints at Wieden + Kennedy, R/GA and Stein Rogan & Partners in New York.  Ed has also taught classes at the Morris County Community College. Prior to starting his career in advertising, he studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, with concentrations in traditional animation and organizational management.

Ed continues his studies at RIT and is enrolled in a part-time MS graduate program focusing on organizational development in the creative environment.

He was also on the panel for the 2008 NPES Print Outlook Summit and for the APA of New York, "Let's Talk Legal" discussion.

Connect up on Linkedin or to learn more about agency culture, process and operations, visit my site at adsubculture.com.