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Littleton, Co, Us

Golden, Colorado

We customize solutions for country club lighting, sports lighting, tennis lighting, parking garages, office buildings, golf course driving ranges, restaurants, retail environments including auto dealership showrooms, and private club and clubhouse lighting.SES Certified Lighting Solutions® include LED lighting designs, commercial lighting control systems, commercial LED retrofit plans, high-output LED lighting products, HID lighting solutions, industrial lighting solutions, commercial and industrial lighting installation project management, commercial and industrial lighting product procurement and installation, and utility rebate administration.SES Lighting / Strategic Energy Systems is a proud American company. We are based in Golden, Colorado.

Littleton, Co

Director of Marketing and Communications. Director of internal, external and membership marketing. Sold 300 Memberships during my tenure, including $2,000,000 in sales during the 2008-2010 recession seasons. Rebranded the Club, developing all new Club materials and print publications. Managed the Marketing and Administration departments, including Membership sales. Founded the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Professional Club Marketing Association (PCMA), and served as it's first president. This position entailed: Extensive use of public relations skills including daily personal contact with a demanding membership, their guests and the media.Managing Club events, inside and outside golf tournaments, and media relations.Designing all Club publications and marketing materials, multimedia pieces, video production and media pieces. Planning budgets and working within them. Writing and designing website and daily/weekly email blast communications. Respecting Member privacy and the privacy of their guests.

Denver, Co

Consultant/ Creative Direction, Marketing and Promotions . Freelance creative and marketing consulting for a variety of clients ranging from the Travel, Hospitality, Oil, Gas and Energy industries to Digital Photography, Corporate Identity and Litigation Graphics. Print and presentation graphics, Marketing campaigns, cd-rom, etc. Clients include: BP Amoco, Sun Microsystems, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, Expedia.com, IAC Travel, Columbine Country Club, Spectrum Mapping, Queenstake Resources, Halcyon Technologies, Blair and Associates.

Golden, Co

Marketing Services Firm Creative Director. Mac/PC. Worked with Fortune 500 clients including Ford, Nokia, Cingular, Anheuser Busch, and Coors on a range of projects including: print ad campaigns, U.S. and international product launches, web campaigns, branding, directing video and film spot shoots, online gaming, direction of post production video editing, web design, interactive web and cd-rom creation, event promotion, public relations, corporate identity. Directed and mentored an internal staff of designers as well as a stable of freelancers while working within budgetary means.

Denver, Co

Graphics for technical presentations and corporate communications. Utilizing expert cross-platform knowledge of Corel Draw (PC), Adobe Photoshop (PC, Mac), Quark Xpress (PC, Mac), and PowerPoint (PC) to create both visually appealing and highly technical print, interactive and presentation materials and mapping for over 50 U.S. based and international clients in the oil & gas, minerals, geological, mapping, PR/investor relations, and publishing industries. Position required extensive client/designer interaction and creative team art direction. Products include logo design, promotional posters, monthly publications, annual reports, trade show booth design, internal promotional materials, PowerPoint presentations including animation and 3-dimensional map fly-throughs, interactive CD-ROM's, website design and full creative control over a 4-color throughout, 100 page Manzanita owned publication, The Downtown Denver Guide.

Denver, Co

Senior Art Director and creative coordinator for publishing firm whose publications included: The Downtown Denver Guide, The Internet News, Archery Industry Magazine (AIM), and The World Ski Directory, a 370 page internationally distributed magazine.

Lakewood, Co

Design of retail, classified and in-house advertising, creation of signage and promotional materials, political cartoons and photography. Layout and pagination of three weekly newspapers including a daily online newspaper. Position also included numerous copy writing and copy editing skills to be implemented.

Denver, Co

Graphic Design in both the Art and Promotions departments. Responsibilities included design of all station print advertising including magazine ads, billboards, set design and various educational series. Promotions Department responsibilities included art direction of promo spots and commercials, design, utilization, rental and transportation of set props to shoot locations and conceptualization of on-air graphics and animation. Public Relations duties included visiting schools to talk to students involved in art, standard phone contacts and the manning of the News4 promotional booth at such events as The National Western Stock Show, The News4 Education Expo, The Taste of Colorado and others. Nominated for an Emmy Award for Non-News Spot-Promotion.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Graphic Design & Communications

Communications