Jason Connell Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

During my time as a freelance marketer and content creator, I’ve gotten the opportunity to work on a variety of really great projects with everything from Startups and Small/Medium Business, to large organizations. I’ve created content (including creative direction, production, and post-production), written copy, produced digital events, and planned out.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

At Mydoma I initially had a hand in everything across the marketing stack, but as we grew and brought on more members to the team, I settled into producing video and motion graphics for events and product launches, managing our digital events, writing blog posts, emails, and event copy, and helping build and maintain our marketing automation infrastructure.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

At BiteSite I was mostly spread across three main functions: new sales, account management, and production. I met with prospective clients and drafted up their respective contracts before becoming their account manager and helping them formulate and distill their creative vision into a video that they’d be proud of. I also handled a lot of pre production.

Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, MX

FuckUp nights is a regularly occurring event where three to four people get up and share a short tale of failure. They talk about the project or business, how they failed, and what they learned from it. While I started off as an event organizer for Ottawa, I’ve since moved on to edit and proof-read all English content (as the majority of the team are ESL).

Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, MX

While working in Organizer Success, a lot of my day involved taking calls with new organizers to coach them on how to run a successful event, and ensure that they have access to all the resources Fuckup Nights provides. It also meant asking for, and listening to organizer feedback on how to improve resources and processes, and making them feel heard and.

Ottawa, ON, CA

While I was at Pivot + Edge, I was tasked with leading the marketing initiatives to promote the open roles at our client companies. In addition to researching the roles, their target audience, and coming up with creative ways to market to them, I also created careers landing pages in Wordpress and the client’s ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and help.

At FileFacets, I lead all digital campaigns, crafting the strategy, copy, and design of Adwords, LinkedIn, and other digital programs, all aimed at partners. That also extended to the website as well, as I designed and built the previous version of the site, and managed the project to translate it into 6 different languages. As the more technical member of.

Shelf Exchange was a startup that connected independent makers and artisans to independent retail stores, kind of like a retail AirBnB. I built the product alongside our customers, involving them in every step of our development, ensuring that this was something they’d buy and find useful. I designed and built our initial product, and developed the.

Ottawa, ON, CA

After being asked to join the Innovation team, I was tasked with building a flourishing community of startup founders within the startup facilities at Invest Ottawa. I guided and helped create the culture for the incubator and accelerator program, as well as managed the portfolio of startups within that space. I also created events and programming, the.

Ottawa, ON, CA

In my initial role at Invest Ottawa, I worked for the corporate marketing team - contributing to Invest Ottawa's top-level marketing strategy and execution. I created web content (including blog, social, and web copy), engaged with various stakeholders and community members outside of Invest Ottawa, and managed our events.

Tattoo Hero was a startup in the tattoo industry, acting as a front-desk software for tattoo shops to manage inventory, staffing, appointments, and booking. While there, I worked on website content and copy, wrote a number of long-form magazine-style pieces and interviews for the blog, worked on their direct marketing efforts, and handled any misc.

Ottawa, On, CA

As a Digital Marketer at Algonquin, I was the main contact point for the recently created Marketo instance. I developed and implemented email marketing strategies aimed at prospective students, maintained and developed the architecture for the Marketo instance, and often liaised with the main point of contact for SalesForce to ensure we were building.

Ottawa, On, CA

While completing my education at Algonquin, I worked as a student tour guide in the Recruitment department, which lead me to become a Marketing Assistant within that department after graduating. I worked on some market research projects, got my start in Marketo and email marketing, and worked on various misc marketing tasks the department had.

Honours Certificate, Interactive Multimedia

Honours Diploma, Business - Marketing