Anne Cuddy Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

• Created, directed, and executed Mother’s Day, Easter, and Christmas greetings strategy and programs.• Pushed innovative concepts and fresh voice in over $100M of product, including prominent collections at Walmart, Hallmark Gold Crown, CVS, and other nationwide businesses. • Managed and mentored editor talent. • Maximized creation of thoughtful, trend-forward, and consumer relevant products and assets by directing teams of editors, writers, designers, illustrators, and lettering artists. • Collaborated with creative directors and art directors to develop seamless consumer experiences at shelf.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Created editorial strategies and product solutions that differentiated Hallmark in the digital personalized greetings marketplace, bringing product to life across multiple platforms.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Created concepts, wrote, and edited collections and hundreds of individual cards for greeting card lines including Feminine Birthday, Mother’s Day, and Marjolien Bastin in partnership with creative directors, editorial directors, art directors, and designers. • Researched marketplace trends and analyzed product performance for insight into product strategy and creation. • Executed business-winning and highly profitable Paper Wonder and Wonderfolds innovation programs and Canada collections acting as editorial director. • Led writing projects, approval meetings, and filled in as needed for editorial director.• Created product for licensors including Disney, Warner Bros., Peanuts, and Susan G. Komen.• Collaborated with planning teams and designers, trained editors, and created process documents for teaching. • Developed and led programs for internal and external company culture and engagement purposes.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Created concepts and wrote greeting cards for Amplified Experience (sound/light/motion), Signature, and designer brands including Sarah Jessica Parker, Keith Urban, Beach Boys, and Justin Bieber. • Collaborated with creative directors, writers, designers, marketing and licensing teams, engineers, and sound studio to create seamless packages. • Created a broad range of emotionally relevant product by applying market analysis and research, consumer, and pop culture trends and insights.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Wrote and created emotionally relevant greeting cards and writing projects based on editorial and creative strategy. Authored Countdown to College gift book.

• Wrote for a variety of gift, greetings, and product lines, including a featured Shoebox blog, “Anne the Intern.”

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Professional improviser and director in the ensemble cast of the KC Improv Company, performing at the KC Improv Comedy Theater and teaching with the KC Improv Training Center.

Kick Comedy Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania Ave. Kansas City, Mo

• Leads positioning, creative strategy, social media and marketing plan for the multi-weekend Kansas City Improv Festival featuring public performances and classes, while partnering with with Sponsorship, Education, and Talent Directors.

• Professional improviser, sketch writer, and performer in the ensemble cast of ComedyCity.

• Webmaster, writer, designer, and editor for all internal/external faculty grant proposals.

Ames, Iowa

• Collaborated with ISU scholars pursuing degrees from undergraduate to doctorate in any discipline, to explore and develop self-awareness and self-sufficiency with written, oral, visual, and electronic communication at the Writing and Media Help Center.

B.A., Advertising, English Minor

Activities and Societies: Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Intern 2009-2010 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

National Student Exchange Program