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Greater Seattle Area

Creative Hill focuses on branding, advertising and content, specializing in video scripting and sportswriting. Projects include work for Samsung Mobile as well as long-standing editorial writing for the Baltimore Orioles and Girls’ Life magazine. Scripted Samsung video for the global press event about the Galaxy Note7 battery issue. The video—featured on Samsung Newsroom, media outlets and social channels—received 675,000 views the first week and 300,000 views in a single day, resulting in the most organic views of any Samsung video ever. Other work has included agency projects for Microsoft and T-Mobile as well as independently for Compass, a real estate platform.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed a team of five copywriters on a comprehensive rebuild of much of the T-Mobile consumer website. Embedded at T-Mobile working with a team of copywriters, designers and client stakeholders. Through a narrative storytelling approach, customers are now able to find what they want about products, services and benefits in a radically simple way. Designed so that every page can be a point of entry, visitors to the site are led on a thoughtful and intuitive path through its pages.

Seattle, Washington

Led storytelling efforts on the Samsung and Puget Sound Energy accounts. Developed and delivered creative concepts and ideas across all platforms and new business pitches. Worked in partnership with senior account and planning leads to see projects from ideas to activations, completing projects on time and within budget. Managed copywriters, designers and video editors to deliver strategic and innovative creative for Microsoft Store and Xbox. Work included PSE’s carbon-reduction initiative digital campaign; California Walnuts video series; rebranding of international healthcare organization HIMSS; and numerous successful RFP pitches, including Sonos, Samsung Mobile and Kaiser Permanente. Other clients: Shell, Kellogg’s, Infiniti and Charles Smith’s Wines of Substance.

Greater Seattle Area

Concepted and created campaigns and messaging for multinational brands. Work for Samsung included launch event/activation ideation. Created award-winning social-influencer docu-series for Samsung Gear. Other client work: Microsoft and Savers/Value Village.

Greater Seattle Area

Collaborated with stakeholders throughout multinational corporation to promote the brand, recruiting efforts and its network security solutions across F5.com. Transformed technical jargon into compelling, easily digestible, customer-facing content. Major projects included an overhaul of the F5 Careers portal—including sections on employee teams, global offices and company culture—as well as revamping F5 Briefing Centers content.

Seattle

Led a team of art directors and copywriters creating ongoing digital campaigns for T-Mobile. Responsible for maintaining consistent brand voice across channels as well as directing naming exercises for Un-carrier initiatives. Special focus on driving benefit awareness among current customers, including B2B subscribers. Engaged with client throughout the creative process to ensure all objectives and timelines were in line with expectations.

Seattle

Successfully collaborated with art directors, account, tech and program management to produce effective consumer and B2B retention/acquisition marketing campaigns for T-Mobile. Involved in all aspects of creative process from concepting to final execution with super-fast turnaround. Substantial digital copywriting experience—from MMS and emails to social posts, landing pages and scripting numerous Web videos. Chief copywriter on Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign (“hard hitting” and a “success” says AdvertisingAge) resulting in several network television commercials as well as full-page print advertising appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Developed comprehensive worldwide copy library for Microsoft to support launch of Kinect for Xbox. Other client work included Gap, Microsoft Bing and REI.

Bellevue, Wa

Responsibilities included copy editing for entire site; maintaining hub pages devoted to specific topic areas, choosing all editorial content and writing headlines; and writing occasional blogs based on relevant news items and current events.

Seattle

Worked as member of a team creating a new online editorial hub sponsored by a major corporation.

Redmond, Wa

Responsibilities involved scheduling, building and publishing content for the MSN homepage using MSN platform tools.

Redmond

Responsibilities included compiling and editing copy from wire services and freelance contributors for Technology & Science section.

Redmond

Monitored, categorized and programmed news and feature video. Drove content from the MSN Music, Movies, TV and Video sites to the MSN.com home page.

Redmond

Executed editorial content for a large portion of one of the Web’s most highly trafficked educational sites. Other duties included developing story ideas and editing such columnists as Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Redmond

Responsibilities included compiling and editing copy from wire services and freelance contributors for Sports section. Wrote breaking news stories, headlines and captions for the round-the-clock news operation.

Redmond

Managed the daily operation of MSN.com TV Web site overseeing the process though which editorial delivered from content partners and freelance writers was posted to one of the Web’s largest portals. Conducted audio interviews with notable television personalities such as travel/food writer Anthony Bourdain.

Baltimore

Founded Outside Pitch, a highly successful Baltimore Orioles news magazine. Served as editor-in-chief and oversaw all aspects of the magazine, including editorial, photography, graphic design and Web ventures, as well as spearheading marketing initiatives. Developed story ideas and managed a number of freelance writers and photographers. Directed art staff, from design ideas to formulating headlines and captions. Extensive sportswriting experience along with numerous radio and television appearances. Clients included the National Football League Washington Football Team; the National Hockey League Washington Capitals; the National Basketball Association Washington Bullets; Ripken Baseball, Cal Ripken Jr.’s sports group; and Infinity Broadcasting.

Education record

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science Major With Concentrations In English And Journalism