Ian Sumner Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Oversaw the overall brand, content, video, and web design for TouchLight, and its in-house publication, Read The Impact.
• Launched a weekly newsletter that paired the latest news in renewables & climate tech with valuable insights for readers to reduce their carbon impact.
• Produced and edited two podcasts (Big Feet and The Green Room) that distill expert advice from climate tech and renewable energy leaders.
• Developed a branded marketing strategy and created pitches for brand partnerships.

• Headed content creation and social media, focusing on articles for the blog, and engaging users on social media with podcast clips.
• Collaborated with the engineering team to develop a way to embed podcast clips into blog posts to capture users, and familiarize them with the ability to share podcast clips.

• Managed communications and public messaging, and helped shape policy for the Christopher Grove campaign. The campaign focused on teaching voters about Equitable Academics and how the school district would be able to.
• Created the campaign website focused on communicating his story, values, and policy that connected with voters.
• Christopher Grove was successfully elected to the Acalanes Union High School District board with 30,551 votes.

• Oversaw the overall brand, content, video, and website design for TouchLight.
• Developed marketing strategy and information decks for solar installer partners to drive growth & value for our partnerships.
• Collaborated with engineering to develop features for a great user experience that makes understanding the software and its value intuitive.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Produced and edited videos, motion graphics, and podcasts for start-up companies including Parcast, ChanceBending, Tuned, Sugar Sugar, and others. I worked closely with clients to develop and deliver ambitious storytelling.

Burbank

Managed and organized all incoming and outgoing digital assets. Quality checked media for final delivery & air. Edited television spots for air on the Disney Channel, and trained three new I/O's.In my three months as a production assistant before being promoted, I edited assemblies for three feature films and five pilots, ran the recording studio voiceover.

Developed a new branded podcast for the Skoll Foundation as well as produced and wrote for Spaceship Media.

San Francisco Bay Area

Edited and assigned stories for my team of seven reporters, collaborated with other editors and writers for special projects, coordinated reporters and photojournalists for weekly print and daily online coverage.

San Francisco Bay Area

With alternative facts and fake news on the rise, The Fake News Watch is an award-winning, ten episode weekly web-series where we checked the facts, called out the bullshit, and learned to identify the difference. Each episode was produced, edited, and published within 12 hours, and is the Golden Gate Xpress's first video series.

Århus Area, Denmark

I produced a live satirical weekly radio show on European Union current affairs.

Aarhus, Denmark

Reported internationally throughout the European Union, including high-alert points and tense political events such as raids in Brussels the days after the Paris attack and London in the months leading up to the Brexit vote.

Mba

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism & Political Science

Double major in journalism & political science.

Danish Ba Diploma, European Journalism

The Europe in the World program is part of the Danish BA Diploma and is a year-long joint partnership between DMJX and HU. The program is.

Europe In The World Honours Star Certificate For Leadership, Innovation, & Professional Drive.