Hi, I am Ken Drab. Thank you for letting me share my story in a more flexible creative setting.

I am a creative brand evangelist, champion, and loyalist. I am driven to bring creative ideas and identities to life, to ignite a passion that goes beyond the logo – to make it anything but “drab”.

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My goal is to stand out from the crowd and show you why I am a great fit as a Marketing Creative Director for Suncoast Credit Union.

Here's what I've learned about you:

Suncoast Credit Union is a community-based and employee-focused bank that began in 1934 as Hillsborough County Teachers Credit Union. It has grown and expanded to become the largest credit union in Florida and has been voted one of the Top Workplaces by the Tampa Bay Times (2019 and 2020). The leadership team is diverse and the organization greatly supports giving back to the communities – including allowing employees to volunteer for over 33,000 hours in 2019. Additionally, Suncoast Credit Union donates two cents to the foundation every time a member uses their Suncoast Credit Union credit and debit cards.

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Here's what I bring to this role:

To be transparent, I am a proud Suncoast Credit Union member. I am excited about all of the responsibilities listed as they all fall within the scope of my experience as Creative Director at Rakuten. I’ve built and managed a global team across various disciplines, coordinating resources while nurturing team and individual growth to fuel increased production. I have worked with external agencies to help evolve the company identity and incorporated systems to maximize the availability of assets and standardize the brand experience. I’ve worked closely with stakeholders at all levels to build a robust and collaborative ecosystem that ensures a cohesive creative culture.

This page is specifically designed to give you a detailed sense of how I leverage thinking outside the box to attain creative solutions, yet color within the lines to maintain a professional branded presence and achieve goals.

Here is where my experience will help me.

CREATIVE EXPERTISE

Internationally, I work intimately with regions all over the globe. As the world has become a borderless marketplace, my experience has broadened to include managing regional creative demands, language design variations and nuances, and culturally diverse designers and teams.

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Mouseover the different areas for more detail on how I have managed Regional Creative Responsibilities, Language Variations, and Design Nuances, as well as Functional Teams and Designers.

  • Regional

    Responsible for creative and brand development

  • Language

    Language variations and design nuances

  • Teams

    Managed functional teams and designers

I bringwith me every day.

I have been fortunate to experience a broad scope of leadership responsibilities

Discipline Focus

  • Brand
  • Advertising
  • Marketing

Primarily throughout my career, I have been focused on design, but I’ve leveraged my problem solving skills to provide solutions for various areas of the business.

Leadership Experience

Management - 12 Years
Organizational - 14 Years
Operational - 16 Years

One of the strengths I’ve developed has been the ability to focus on the things I can impact. Prioritizing company and team goals, authentic investment in people, and nurturing relationships have been the cornerstone of how I develop and lead by example.

Here is where my expertise will help you.

Kind words from colleagues

Ken is a problem solver, a collaborative thinker and a great creative partner. He is a master at taking words and stories and illustrating them through design, and has worked closely with executive leadership to bring their speeches to life through imagery and animation. Ken is a brilliant brand marketer and he and his team have always provided exceptional design services, finding ways to make our content and our ideas sparkle. I could come to Ken with a seed of an idea, and through some brainstorming and creativity, he would help me transform my idea into a full blown creative campaign.

Nicole Pace

VP of Marketing, North America via LinkedIn

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Ken for 13 years. Early in my career, Ken was one of the first people I collaborated with and he was incredibly patient and helpful in sharing information and best practices with me as I was learning processes and systems. As I have grown in my role Ken has continued to be supportive, responsive and has added value to everything we have worked on togethe. As an example, I was preparing for an on-stage presentation a few years back and Ken was working with me on visuals for my deck. Thanks to Ken’s creative vision we were able to match the story I needed to tell with visuals that kept the audience’s attention and highlighted key elements of the message. I would never have come up with anything even half as good myself and I feel so fortunate to have had Ken in my corner. He isn’t just great at what he does, he also cares about the work and the people. Ken’s talent, drive and positive attitude make him an asset to any team!

Meytal Markman

Technical Product Manager, Strategist & Writer via LinkedIn

I have had the pleasure of working with Ken for the last 9 years at Rakuten Advertising. I am fortunate to have been able to learn so much from Ken; he has reformed the way I look at and understand brand standards, enhanced the look and feel of my own internal and external presentations ten-fold and helped me to evangelize the benefits of working cross-functionally and with a global perspective. One of Ken’s greatest strengths, outside of his exceptional band and creative development, is his ability in nurturing a truly creative culture, injected with humor, with his team and with others outside of his organization. Any team, brand or company would be fortunate to have Ken at the helm of their brand.

Aimee Cerny, MBA

Senior Director, Client Services via LinkedIn

Ken Drab is a leader, a forward thinker and a great designer. In the beginning as a colleague at Rakuten he was a great collaborator and supporter. As a manager his support and backing of those under him was exceptional. He can always find a way to support you and to push you to do better and be better. Working with Ken has been a great experience.

Raul Sinclair

Senior Designer, Creative Technology via LinkedIn

My obsession with efficiency starts with being highly-proficient with these tools

Office Tool Expertise

PowerPoint
Word
Excel
Outlook

I have twenty years of experience in the Adobe design suite of applications (even before it was CC – and remember some Quark Xpress too).

Out of necessity, I have become an expert in Microsoft PowerPoint and integrating design into reusable templates that provide functionality for most basic users.

Design Tool Expertise

Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
InDesign
Dreamweaver
CC Libraries
Acrobat

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