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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Founded marketing agency, offering tailored creative solutions. Business Development and Creative Responsibilities, including: seek and retain clients for marketing contracting. Propose creative solutions to potential clients and submit bids for services. Budget planning. Maintain relationships with Web and print freelancers, and with Spanish language translators. Invoicing and bookkeeping. Implement marketing development for variety of clients. Web site redesign and creation for local businesses and non-profits. Copywriting, including executive communications. Print advertising campaigns for local businesses. Corporate branding for new business, including logo creation, Web site design and marketing strategy. Develop and execute recurring e-mail campaign for top-rated San Francisco restaurant. Web image / banner ad creation. Marketing strategy consultation, print template development for leading national wholesale mortgage lender.

Seattle, Wa

Set up and managed all aspects of production for digital media company focusing on people working in, and serviced by, the mortgage industry.

Las Vegas, Nv

Managed the digital presence of Mortgage Compliance Magazine and Mortgage Women Magazine since inception in fall 2013. Established websites for Twelve 11 Media and its publications. Designed ads and other media. Coordinated Mortgage Compliance Magazine's Weekly NewsLINEs newsletter and digital edition distribution. Provided digital imaging and editorial support.

Frisco, Tx

Meritize is a unique student lender with a team of visionary (I don't way that lightly) credit geeks (I do say that lightly) who are doing amazing things with data analysis. Backed by some of the brightest, most respected, and innovative minds in finance, Meritize helps students get financial credit from their academic performance.

Delta Leads provides quality leads to companies looking for affordable solutions to have new clients delivered to them. We generate our own leads through a mixture of SEO, Media Buys and our range of vetted and proven affiliate marketing networks.

Performed strategic, creative and special events marketing on a variety of projects. Led marketing implementation through huge growth period. Company regularly closed more than $4 billion in loans monthly with $8 billion in apps. Produced custom marketing flyers, e-mails and ads using Adobe CS for distribution to our B2B customers. Managed sales contact lists in 60,000 customer Siebel database. Segmented contact lists for national, regional, state, branch and territory campaigns. Monitored effectiveness through open rates, click-to tracking and response. Web content administrator with Oracle Portal-based site. Developed tradeshow marketing effort. Organized, executed efforts for National Conference and Sales Incentive Trips. Directed value-added campaigns like special trainings, "webinars” and expert industry seminars. Facilitated giveaway item development and distribution. Served on Web planning committee, interviewing vendors for Content Management Tool application.

Under strict deadlines, regularly produced up to five articles every day and helped lay out pages for award-winning daily community newspaper. Covered local school districts, religion, courts beats, plus additional assignments. Photographer for news, sports and feature events. Features writer, including interviews and photographing national music acts, including the Barenaked Ladies, Coolio, the Goo-Goo Dolls, Jewel, No Doubt, the Indigo Girls, Chris Isaak and others. Winner of Distinguished Investigative Reporting award, April 1998, from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association, for the in-depth story, “A Family Worth Saving?” As weekend editor, organized and laid out the expanded Sunday edition. Implemented complete style change, including switch to color production from black-and-white. Managed 35-person office staff on weekends, including newsroom, photo team, prepress and press.

Worked on Kodak campus with tight security, managing equipment pool consisting of high-end digital equipment such as cameras, scanners and printers. Maintained inventory of expensive emerging technologies, including early Canon, Nikon and Kodak Digital Cameras, and the photo reproduction stations (early versions of the scanners and photo printers available today at most photo labs for instant digital prints). Distributed and tracked the equipment to potential customers worldwide for them to test capabilities. Facilitated equipment delivery and returns with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Defense Department, major publication companies, film production companies like Walt Disney Studios, and photographers, including Annie Leibovitz. Assisted organizing trade shows.

Ba, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Newspaper reporter, and at different times, production manager and assistant ad manager for the paper. Radio DJ.

Aa, Digital Imaging Technology