Christopher Clukey Email & Phone Number

Rockford, Illinois Area

Collaborate with clients to clarify their messaging, then create web copy (with over 100 completed websites so far) and content strategies to match. Includes implementing on-page SEO and developing additional ongoing content, such as blogs, landing pages, case studies, lead magnets, newsletters, and social media campaigns. Coordinate with graphic design and web development staff to harmonize content and visuals for maximum effect. Lead meetings with clients during website and content development and ongoing digital marketing and web hosting. Serve as main contact for post-launch client service, making requested changes or directing web development tasks as needed. Crafted social media for the agency podcast, “Emarc & Amarc.” Photography, photo editing, and video editing as needed.Create weekly social media content for KidsTek, a Denver nonprofit bringing tech education and soft skills training to underprivileged students.Assisted the marketing department of Home Forever Baths, a Kohler partner remodeling bathrooms in the Chicagoland area, from startup in early 2020 to May 2023. Wrote all website copy and followed with landing pages, blogs, promotions, video scripts, and social media content. Crafted all social media content from March 2022 on, which included content calendar development, copywriting, posting, photo and video editing, coordination with marketing team, warehouse support personnel, sales reps, and installers. Remodeling projects completed rose from 500 remodels in 2020 to over 1,300 in 2022. Assisted CI International, a prominent international consultancy, with a messaging refresh and website rebuild. Developed messaging and web copy for the firm’s main website, a new 360 Assessment service, and a separate public health consultancy. Managed a project to improve all LinkedIn profiles while adding new “human interest” bio to the company website. Wrote and oversaw the design of collateral for main training, coaching, and consulting services.

Freeport, Il

Serving as a copywriter, content writer, editor, and content strategist for businesses, non-profit agencies and media outlets. Includes:Numerous print and digital collateral pieces (brochures, virtual equipment tours, social media content, taglines and bullets for trade show displays, etc.) for power generation and heavy equipment divisions of a Fortune 500 manufacturer.Web copy and daily social media content for Home Forever Baths, a Kohler partner that performs 1,000+ bathroom remodels per year in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana. Includes photo and video editing, coordination with marketing team, support personnel, and installers.Web copy, strategy, and on-page SEO for Peace of Mind Online website development team. Included developing additional content such as blogs, newsletters, case studies, and lead magnets. Content and copy for Rockford area marketing agencies and their clients, including white papers, lead magnets, case studies, blogs, trade and chamber newsletter articles, direct mail and email sales copy.Multiple case studies for Agvance to highlight customer successes with their ag-focused accounting and retail management software.White paper on arc flash prevention and collateral (landing page copy, sales letters, two-sider sales sheet) for Ballard Engineering.Newsletter for RAEDC to promote Rockford as an air hub, targeted at high level corporate decision makers outside the U.S.3 years as the Managing Editor of Grain & Feed Manager, a quarterly trade journal reaching 12,000 high-level managers in the agricultural industry.Over 4 years as a reporter, feature writer and columnist for the Freeport Ink and Freeport Journal-Standard.Selected from over 11,000 entries for inclusion in Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Authors Famous and Obscure. Entry was also one of the few selected to appear in the book trailer with those of Deepak Chopra, Nora Ephron, and Joan Rivers.

Oversaw county government (47,700 population), serving as a Chairman and Vice Chairman of subcommittees (Administration, Nursing Home, Finance) and as the Board's representative on the County's 911 Board.

Sold and designed advertising for the weekly Freeport Ink newspaper, including complete campaign design for some customers. Additional duties included commercial printing sales for Monroe Graphics.

Rockford, Illinois Area

As a Consultant, integrated over 300 new desktop computers into an AS/400 mainframe environment for a Fortune 500 insurance company, training users in the use of Windows and RUMBA connectivity software. As a Resource Coordinator, served mainly as a recruiter, responsible for all candidate search and hiring activity for the Rockford and Madison offices. Additional duties included serving as branch human resources representative, performing market research, planning staff events and writing all branch marketing materials.

Plattsburgh Afb, Ny

After graduating with honors from the aircraft maintenance technical school at Sheppard AFB, TX, was assigned to the 379th Field Maintenance Squadron (379th Bomb Wing) Isochronal/Phased Inspection Team at Wurtsmith AFB, MI. Performed exhaustive inspections of KC- 135 aircraft, performing, assigning and assisting in all repairs and diagnostic tests for my assigned quarter of the aircraft. Certified as a wartime cargo courier and shelter manager. Served as team librarian, maintaining extensive and frequently updated technical library.While serving a temporary assignment as Airman in Charge. Local Manufacture Branch, coordinated a number of activities related to parts fabrication by the squadron, refurbishment by manufacturers, recycle and salvage. Also served as squadron classified courier.After transferring to the 310th Air Refueling Squadron, was responsible for performing, assigning and/or supervising all maintenance, fueling, loading and other operations involved with one KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft on my shift. Included serving as an Assistant Crew Chief for the squadron VIP plane, "The Spirit of Plattsburgh" after refurbishing the craft as part of a prototype Glossy Eagle program. Prior to this, was part of a crew which returned our "hangar queen" aircraft to operational status with a high on-time takeoff rate.

Associate'S Degree, Business Administration

High School Diploma, Cp