Jef Sewell Email & Phone Number

Wilmington, NC, US

Austin, Texas Area

• After years as CEO, I shifted my focus to advance the development of Amplifier's logistics software platform:
• Launched the 1.0 release of Amplifier's self-service fulfillment offering
• Automated Client provisioning across all major business systems
• Enabled Amplifier to scale active clients from 35 to over 300
• Designed features to allow individual personalization of Client shipments
• Received patent ("US20160210650A1") for our logistics process innovations

Austin, Texas Area

• Amplifier provides private-label distribution and fulfillment services for e-commerce brands and marketers. The hallmark of our service offering is the enablement of mass-personalization capabilities within a.
• Assumed CEO role to lead significant restructuring
• Led rebranding of the company
• Pivoted strategy to build a "tech-enabled" SaaS-inspired logistics company
• Involved selections of our best-of-breed business systems (WMS, OMS, Billing, Ticketing)

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Director, cinematographer and visual designer of a third film in a series with Two Birds Film and Laura Dunn. ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN isa cinematic contemporization of the work of American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker whose book THE DENIAL OF DEATH won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.

Henry County, KY

I was producer/co-director & visual designer of this award-winning film LOOK & SEE is a cinematic portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye of celebrated agrarian writer Wendell Berry.

Austin, Texas Area

(Copernica was the prior name of the logistics/distribution company Amplifier.)

Austin, Texas, United States

A chronicle that explores the social, economic and even spiritual costs of the pursuit of the American dream. It explores a community's struggle to preserve irreplaceable natural resources in the face of unchecked real estate development.THE UNFORESEEN was executive-produced by Terrence Malick and Robert Redford and went on to win the 2007 Independent.

Creative director of the 2005 book THE ART OF DEMOTIVATION. Upon its launch, the Financial Times of London called it "the most daring, funny and subversive management book ever written.

Dallas, Texas, United States

• I co-created a parody of then-popular motivational posters which were ubiquitous in corporate offices. Demotivators® became one of the earliest commercial Internet memes when it went viral on October 28, 1998.
• Company has sold millions of products since its inception
• Generated tens of millions of dollars in cumulative revenue
• Featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Nightline & more

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Sixth employee of a Dallas-based OnRamp. OnRamp was one of the earliest commercial Internet Service Providers serving the large Texas market. Initially hired as web designer, my role evolved into designing.
• Designed service enabling all subscribers an instantly-provisioned web presence ("Rampages")
• Worked with marketing to co-create a domain-centered web hosting offering
• Named the domain service "yourcompany.com" and secured the domain name
• At acquisition, OnRamp web hosting services accounted for more than 10% of purchase price

Dallas, Texas, United States

• SHL Systemhouse was an early client-server focused systems integration firm. Eventually acquired by MCI and merged with Dallas's Electronic Data Systems.
• I was directly recruited from Accenture to join SHL
• Built presentations for teams leading SHL's expansion into the US market
• Worked with sales teams to produce rich-media, PowerPoint and interactive presentations to support their multi-million dollar systems integration bids

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Andersen Consulting is the former name of Accenture. I was in the Dallas Marketing Resource Center in what is now the Bank of America Plaza.
• Produced rich-media presentations for teams selling early business-process outsourcing
• Authored interactive presentations using "Macromind Director"
• Incorporated video segments via serially-controlled Laserdisc players
• Animated three-dimensional sequences to enhance impact of proposals