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New York, Ny, Us

Author US-based marketing materials (including website, email and social media content) as well as product descriptions, reviews and FAQ guides for the WhatIF Foods suite of food products.

New York, United States

Implement SEO strategy and craft compelling content to drive online visibility and increase engagement for several brands including, to date, Coach and Stuart Weitzman.

New York, Ny

• Art-focused skateboard design company that has grown from ‘one artist working out of a garage’ into an internationally-recognized skateboard brand featuring a talented stable of 12 artists hailing from the U.S, Australia, Canada and the U.K, sponsoring a ‘Devil Street’ branded skate team, and selling limited edition skateboards to customers the world over.• Handle every aspect of company operations: financial management and planning, graphic design of skateboard and apparel lines, management of skate team, manufacturing, branding and marketing campaigns.• Recognize and keep ahead of industry-specific trends.• Maintain blog and brand presence onsite and via social media channels. Instagram @devilstreetdecks social media presence: 10,000+ followers.

New York, Ny

• Launched and led quarterly magazine offering long-form articles, essays and reviews of music and the music industry at-large.• Steer magazine’s narrative into one focused on positive -but critically grounded- assessments of new work (i.e. ‘no bad reviews here’). Commission articles from a diverse team of freelancers. Curate each issue, copy edit, proofread, conceive story ideas, and promote the magazine via social media channels.

Sydney, Australia And New York, Ny

• 17-year-old online magazine whose voice and identity has been strategically curated into a now well-established monthly format of long-form articles, essays, opinion pieces, and short fiction and poetry on subjects across the spectrum.• Commission articles from 70+ contributors. Compile issues, copy edit site wide, conceive and discuss story ideas with team of freelancers, and promote each issue via social media.• Write Ezy Reading, a monthly column in publication since the magazine’s first issue in 2004.

New York, Ny

• Deliver strategy, conduct research, and create content related to capsules and campaigns for tommy.com, including ideation, editing, writing and monitoring engagement of company-wide initiatives.• Partner with Tommy Hilfiger global teams in scaling out content across markets, identifying key opportunities and trends, adapting content and the Tommy voice accordingly to what is relevant and on-brand.• Execute brand, collection and product stories for Tommy Hilfiger’s ecommerce division in Men’s, Women’s, Children’s, Runway, Travel and Luxury Collections. Scope has included store signage and branding (company stores North America), marketing copy for tommy.com landing and product pages, special features, emails and subject lines, messaging on tommy.com to optimize user experience, print marketing, ‘Shop The Look’ editorials, proofreading and delivering general brand strategies into clear communications.• Implement SEO strategies for tommy.com in partnership with BrightEdge platform, internal marketing & eComm teams.• Formulate strategy, research and content for Tommy Adaptive, an innovative new line of clothing committed to inclusive design and ease of dressing for individuals with disabilities.• Campaign and collection work to date has included TOMMYxLEWIS, TOMMYxZENDAYA, TOMMYxGIGI, the Rafael Nadal Flex & Icon Collection, the Zooey Deschanel Collection, Runway of Dreams, Pvilion, and seasonal runway and Fashion Week campaigns.

New York, Ny

• Delivered creative copy and brand consulting for a diverse portfolio of clients from private aviation to home and interiors decor, working with clients to refine brand identity, pen press releases, product copy and assorted digital and marketing content.Key Projects:• New brand book for international fashion retailer focused on activewear.• Conceptual ideation and deliverables on company and campaign launch for a private jet charter service.

New York, Ny

• Wrote bar/restaurant and travel/lifestyle profiles, reviews and interviews.• Tapped to write the website’s entire New York ‘City Guide’, an authoritative overview profiling each of Manhattan’s neighborhoods, along with notable tourist, restaurant and nightlife highlights.• Worked closely with founder in collaborating on new strategy for magazine’s rebranding, incorporating comparative case studies of competition and publishing as well as hospitality industry trends to identify and target gaps in online media for coverage of particular cities.

Bangor, Me

• Contributed to countless ‘BDN Magazine’, ‘Special Section’ and custom publications including Marry ME, Maine Summer Preview, Maine Fall Preview, Maine Winter, and trade-related supplements.• Worked on trade supplements frequently mining data from previous campaigns and creating fact sheets to study past successes and trends.• Identified new opportunities for market engagement in developing future strategy/advertorials.

Sydney, Australia

• Co-launched rock label, managing and representing over a dozen bands and solo artists.• Collaborated with artists on critical transition from analog to digital content, planning, marketing and promoting tour and overseeing the release of in excess of twenty original album and compilation releases.

Sydney, Australia

• Authored book of anecdotes from the Australian rock music industry drawing from in excess of 200 interviews with musicians and groups conducted over the course of two years.• Press in Australia and New Zealand earned mentions in/on:The Sydney Morning Herald, TheDaily Telegraph, The Australian, The Age, NZ Herald, Television: ABC TV, Network Ten Australia, Radio: Triple J Radio, ABC Radio National, FBi Sydney, Triple M (national).• Lauded by critics for producing “The perfect and very funny reminder that the only payoff, for most bands, is the experience of having got up there and rocked.” (Drum Media). The book was also cited for doing “.... for the music industry what He Died with a Falafel in His Hand did for share houses” (author Stuart Coupe).

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.)

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History