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Vanessa Schaefer

President & Creative Director

Vanessa brings almost twenty years of creative, strategic marketing, and client service experience to every project Clockwork produces. Vanessa works closely with clients throughout each phase of a project to ensure all creative, marketing, and business objectives are met. Vanessa's broad range of industry experience includes B-2-B organizations, professional service firms, high-tech companies, as well as catalog marketers and fashion retailers.

Vanessa prides herself on being a "problem solver" and enjoys helping clients meet difficult challenges. Her marketing savvy, technical expertise, and vendor insight allow her to complete complex projects on very tight schedules. She is highly skilled in both design and photo art direction, and has worked with many of the area's top photographers, printers, writers, and consultants. Prior to founding Clockwork in 1994, Vanessa worked at ad agencies in New York and Massachusetts, as well as in-house at advertising departments for Jordan Marsh department stores and Focus Enhancements. Vanessa is a graduate of Smith College, where she majored in fine art and minored in writing. Outside the office, Vanessa enjoys restoring her circa 1870 colonial home in Weston, gardening and flower arranging.

Michael Fleischner

CEO & Production Director

Mike is a founder of Clockwork Design Group and Production Director. Mike has worked extensively on the Macintosh for almost twenty years. He is an expert in the major graphics and page layout applications, and is experienced in Photoshop image retouching and manipulation. He applies the layouts the designers develop to the rest of pieces such as catalogs and brochures. His responsibilities have covered all aspects of Mac training and troubleshooting, and preparing electronic files for printing. He flightchecks and optimizes all projects before they are sent out in order to avoid any costly and time-consuming problems. He is also responsible for file management, maintenance, and archiving.

Prior to founding Clockwork in 1994, Mike worked in the advertising department of Focus Enhancements, and before that, Harper Bellotti design agency. Mike graduated from Tufts University with a degree in English Literature. Outside the office, Mike enjoys following current affairs, playing golf, and personal electronics & technology.

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Alison Taylor

Web & Graphic Designer

Alison is in her third year with Clockwork and has over 10 years of solid web and print design experience. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from Simmons College in Boston and has worked as an in-house designer for a variety of places from Boston Ballet to the Forum Corporation. Outside of the office, Alison is the designer for NPR's Car Talk website. When she can tear herself away from the computer, she enjoys biking, kayaking, and writing screenplays, She is currently wrapping up post-production on a TV sitcom pilot she penned and shot last fall called "Everyone's Business."

David Saraceno

Account Executive

As the newest member of the Clockwork team, David brings with him several years of office and project management experience. His responsibilities at Clockwork include working with clients to determine needs and goals in order to write accurate proposals and initial estimates, coordinating with vendors, getting competitive print bids, defining detailed project schedules to make sure every project arrives on time, and managing projects to stay on budget.

David graduated from the University of Connecticut with degrees in Political Science and Sociology. Outside the office, he enjoys exploring New England with his fiancee, Kate, and their dog, Apollo, as well as working on his photography and building up his extensive hot sauce collection.