Alexander Rea

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Virginia Commonwealth University School Of The Arts

SVP, Global Director of Creative & Technology at Critical Mass

New York, New York, United States

Critical Mass

SVP, Global Director of Creative & Technology

Co-Founder

Every day since 2000, The FWA's mission is to showcase cutting edge creativity, regardless of the medium or technology used.

The FWA

Jury Member

The FWA (Global)
LeBook Connections (New York City)
NYF Advertising Awards (New York City)

Teaching, Speaking & Judging

Juror

4As CreateTech (New York City)
Modern Marketing Summit (New York City)
Maker Faire (New York City)
Unreal Engine: Build (London)
TV of Tomorrow (New York City)
New York Media Festival (New York City)
Maker Faire (New York City)
TEDx Silicon Alley (New York City)
Digital Hollywood (New York City)
Gravy Talk at Grey Advertising (New York City)

Public Speaker

Columbia University (New York City)
Miami Ad School (New York City)
Zimmerman Advertising Program at USF (Tampa, FL)
SheSays (New York City)


-  Advertising & Media Events

-  LeBook Connections (New York City)
-  New York Festivals (New York City)
-  Modern Marketing Summit (New York City)
-  Maker Faire (New York City)
-  Unreal Engine: Build (London)
-  TV of Tomorrow (New York City)
-  New York Media Festival (New York City)
-  Maker Faire (New York City)
-  TEDx Silicon Alley (New York City)
-  Digital Hollywood (New York City)
-  Gravy Talk at Grey Advertising (New York City)

Guest Lecturer

HELO

Director

Working with partnerships team on providing guidance on innovative digital projects including the Pokémon 25th anniversary campaign, a partnership with Universal Music featuring Post Malone, Katy Perry and others.

MediaCom

Executive Creative & Technology Director, Partnerships

I'm taking my decades of experience working on projects that required extensive detail oversight of design and quality of execution and bringing it to this real estate investment group in an advisory role. Focusing on renovations, build-outs and new construction of hotels and residential. Consulting with contractors to advise on the creative details of the projects. Reducing risk to the investment by applying his critical eye and experience to projects.

Suncroft Capital LLC

Advisor/Creative & Technology Director

Co-Founder, CCO

- Worked with CCO & CEO, production teams and client to design, execute and deliver technology enabled media experiences virtually and in nearly 15k retail locations that were first-to-market and contributed to bottom-line growth.

-  Developed innovative consumer experiences for the new brick-and-mortar retail location in Times Square.

-  Assessed emerging technologies, built relationships with new partners and built prototypes to sell new ideas to client.

We Are Unlimited

Executive Creative Director, Technology

NEW INC is a cultural incubator exploring new ideas at the intersection of art, technology, and design. The first museum-led cultural incubator and was conceived by the New Museum in 2013. It is a not-for-profit platform that furthers the Museum’s ongoing commitment to new art and new ideas

NEW INC

Mentor

- Responsible for leadership and guidance for digital enabled ideas from leveraging emerging technology integration with social media platforms to experiential non-traditional advertising, across North America for brands including State Farm, Play-Doh, Nerf, Cotton, Tribeca Film Festival, Dos Equis, Energy Upgrade California, Lufthansa and Unilever.

-  Worked closely with the North American new business teams on pitches including Airbnb, Army and Volkswagen and influenced the pitch process by designing and directing all of the pitch theater.

-  Designed prototypes to sell the ideas which often included physical product fabrication but also the entire pitch theater experience which immersed the audience into the overall concept (and team) that we were selling.

Creative Technology Officer

Designed solutions for experiences combining VFX, game engine, VR and AR and technology and was the creative director on Lockheed Martin’s award-winning group VR project, “Field Trip to Mars” for McCann. Recognized with over 130 industry awards including the most awarded campaign at Cannes Festival of Creativity 2016 and is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C.

Framestore

Head of Creative Technology

Provided B2B innovation consulting to blend technology into the customer experience for Macy’s brick-and-click retail and Nissan Infiniti’s future of mobility and car ownership. Also lead the initial discovery and architecture team for a now live SaaS product called Doable which is designed for teams to work together to make innovations real. I also worked on infrastructure for Co:Ventures' Grind, a members only co-working space.

co: collective

Technology Experience Lead

R/GA’s inaugural Ventures program, taking place throughout winter 2014. The portfolio featured companies building connected devices that combined hardware, software, data, and digital services to solve new problems.

R/GA Accelerator

- Created best-practices and managed the operating system for a one-of-a-kind showroom comprised of 50+ experiences and interactive installations.

-  As the flagship technology showcase of IPG Mediabrands, I worked with the network agencies to bring audiences to new media channels and ad products. Selling through innovative new media opportunities which lead to producing award winning products, published thought-leadership papers and worked directly with a brand’s C-suite to educate them on emerging digital trends.

-  Produced a messenger app experience for Sony Music's One Direction's album launch and also a prototype for new dealership experience for Chrysler that was debuted at that year's NADA event.

IPG Media Lab

Director Of Lab Technology

Taught the interactive media production course for Summer Quarter 2012

Miami Ad School

Teacher

- Formerly SKINNY NYC]

Worked with NYC and San Diego offices as a consultant on multiple projects. Providing technology production execution strategies and oversight for existing projects. Functioning as an ambassador to external production companies to better manage internal expectations.

Brands included Asics' award winning Stop At Never digital campaign along with continued work on Budweiser (from earlier with Skinny NYC), Stella Artois and Verizon Redbox Instant.

ViTRO

Technology Director

Launched an industry-recognized and award-winning web platform for a global hotel brand that is still operational and successful. Acted as the agency’s leading voice for technology with client’s global commerce platform IT group and developed unique solutions to creative and business problems.

Primary project was the award winning website platform for Marriott's Renaissance Hotels.

Anomaly

Senior Technology Producer

Oversaw technology for the small and nimble company. Creative and technology aligning on the same objectives. Designed, pitched and won multiple projects because of our synced approach. Single-handedly drafted scoping documents for large global brand platforms and sold the ideas through the client’s procurement. It was a client facing technology/creative role, built on solid documentation, strategy and teamwork.

Projects included flagship properties for AB InBev, along with other projects for Diageo brands, Asics and Aldo. Also included award winning work promoting the new Lexus CT200h with the campaign Lexus Dark Ride along with Darker Side of Green.

SKINNY NYC (Merged with VITRO)

Campfire

Producer (Consultant)

Wieden + Kennedy

Interactive Producer (Consultant)

Ongoing on and offsite work assisting the digital group.  Launched <a href="http://cablevideostore.com">cablevideostore.com</a>.  A Movie-On-Demand awareness campaign sponsored by eight cable companies and eight movie studios.  Site built by B-Reel.

Berlin Cameron

Technology Producer (Consultant)

Produced banners for two aggressive Valentine’s Day media buys for Puma in three different languages with multiple creative rounds, global approvals, translations and production all in one week

Droga5

Providing technical consultation on a variety of digital applications

Saatchi & Saatchi

Technical Producer (Consultant)

With David & Goliath

Managed the production requirements and building the scoping documents including sitemaps and wireframes during the discovery and definition phase of a creative strategy and brand re-positioning project

thelab

Sr. Interactive Producer (Consultant)

Providing technical oversight and delivery muscle to a new engagement.  Contributing to vendor/partner relationship management.

Big Fuel Communications LLC

Working with newly formed digital group on pharmaceutical projects.  Contributing to ongoing process development and providing digital advocacy.

Cline Davis & Mann

Sr. Project Manager (Consultant)

Above the Belt is an aerial showcase that has been dazzling New York audiences for the past four years with a constantly evolving line-up of aerial artists.

Producers Britt Nhi Sarah and Alexander Rea provide a platform to display the most current aerial work. Artists from the  U.S., Canada, Europe, Central and South America and Asia perform original choreography on traditional and original aerial apparatus.

Above The Belt

Producer

<a href="http://www.conceptfarm.com">www.conceptfarm.com</a>

The Concept Farm

Technical Director

Produced and managed interactive projects from initial scoping and budget into concept and development all the way through QA and live execution

Dogmatic

Interactive Producer

Produced interactive projects incorporating 2D illustration, 3D modeling and Flash.

Projects included rich media ad units and micro-sites

Prepared scoping documents, engagement agreements and budgets

Visual Goodness

Responsible for the daily technical operations of the online stores for MTV, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central and LOGO

Turned marketing objectives into reality by incorporating and managing both internal developers and external vendors

Developed and managed commerce and traffic analytical systems for all five websites and email campaigns

Worked with suppliers to better integrate orders from the five online stores and order fulfillment to the customer

MTV Networks

Responsible for maintaining the website for an online daily magazine.  Managed the PHP and MySQL content system

Radar Magazine

Managed the development of interactive campaigns for Unilever’s Axe hygiene products and All detergent product lines

Coordinated internal and external resources and produced detailed website tracking reports

BBH New York

Developer working on the front-end of the first launch of Orbitz

Two Hundred Twelve Degrees LLC

Developer

Front-end development lead on many projects including Sam's Club, Cathay Pacific Airlines, Walmart Travel.  Developed quality assurance processes cross-browser and platform compliancy in an era when there was none.

Leapnet

Senior Developer

Besides advertising and marketing my other passion is theater.  With this venture of mine I producing not only shows in the classic sense I also adapt my agency background to produce web, print and video projects for these show other performing arts organizations non-profits.