ABOUT ME

This first thing people notice about me is my height. So I'll clear this up right away. Yes, I did play basketball. No, I wasn't good at it.

The other thing they notice is my curiosity. My strange urge to know a little about everything. It's probably why I was so drawn to advertising. And definitely why I get called "Human Google" in meetings.

Over the years, I've worked on a lot of different stuff. Big TV projects. Small digital projects. Pet projects (quite literally). And, to be honest, I've loved every minute of it. The perks of endless curiosity, I suppose.

Experience

R&R Partners – Creative Director (2016-present) Oversee multiple teams creating integrated B2C and public service brand campaigns, community activations and design systems across a dozen accounts.

Accounts have included Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, SeaWorld, Discover Puerto Rico, Avnet, Las Vegas Raiders, Health & Wealth Raffle, Brilliant, Select Health, Utah Transit Authority, Cox Business, Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado Wildlife Council, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, Utah Department of Health & Human Services, and Chrysalis domestic violence shelter.

Bader Rutter – Senior Copywriter, Freelance (2016) Freelanced on agriculture and B2B clients, creating experiential pitches, integrated campaigns, collateral and website copy.

Cramer-Krasselt – Senior Copywriter (2002-2015) Worked on integrated campaigns for national brands in a range of categories including home and hardware, recreation and packaged goods.

Served as conceptual and writing lead on over a dozen national websites, creating copy and shaping content strategy and UX.

Accounts included Johnsonville, Spice Islands, Gumout, Skil Tools, Case IH, Monroe Shocks, BISSELL, Loctite, Wausau Insurance, Evinrude, Pick 'n Save, InSinkErator, TIKI Torches, and Benihana.

Havas NY (1998-2002) Cut my teeth on big brands like New Balance, Intel and Evian. One of two primary teams working on integrated retail campaigns (TV, print, OOH, radio, digital) for Volvo, which were showed at The One Club.

Education

Portfolio Center – Copywriting (1996-1998)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – B.A. in Journalism (1995)

Southeastern Media Institute – Film editing (1993)

Recognition

Effies, Graphis, Communication Arts Exhibit, PRSA Bronze Anvils, Webbys, FWA Shortlist, Tellys, Magellan Awards, Emmys, U.S. Travel Association Destiny awards, Addys, Milwaukee 99

True Facts

I was offered a free ride to art school, but I turned it down.

My audition piece for the church choir was the Hardee’s theme song. (To be fair, I was five.)

I may have been a mathlete in high school.

The KGB has a file on me.