Jon Obermeyer Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca

I'll be working on local (corporate, foundation, municipal), state and federal grant submissions, in support of the Community Development Team and Sacred Heart's mission "to build a community free from poverty by creating hope, opportunity, and action. We provide essential services, work together to improve our lives, organize for justice, and inspire our community to love, serve, and share."

San Jose, California, United States

Northern California-based writer, editor and content consultant with eighteen years b2b and b2c content development experience across a variety of verticals: ● Technology (semiconductors, food tech, mobile authentication, cloud consulting, autonomous software testing, advanced materials, blockchain platforms) ● Financial Services (banking, angel and venture funding) ● Healthcare/Medical Innovation ● Retail ● Economic Development/Tourism ● Media and Publishing ● Non Profit My Content Services include: ● Copywriting ● Web content ● Thought Leadership: blogs, white papers, eBooks ● Press releases ● Investor and board decks ● Video commercial concepts and scripts ● Content strategy assessment and consultation ● RFPs and proposals ● Grant Writing (private foundation, corporate CSR, state and federal agency funding) Selected Clients (* writing samples upon request) ● Samsung* ● Sandisk* ● Micron ● RF Micro Devices (Nasdaq: QRVO) ● ParTech (NYSE: PAR)* ● Authentic Vision (Austria)* ● Sauce Labs ($151M raised to-date)* ● Demandbase (Series H - $158M raised to-date) ● Santa Fe magazine ● Hearst Digital Media*

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for submitting roughly $1.5 million per year in corporate and private foundation grant proposals leading to $4 million in funding awards since 2020. In FY 21, we exceeded our Corporate and Foundation funding goal by 30%. I support health plan certifications and government contract RFP's (we were recently awarded $13 million in San Francisco for a four-year contract to serve congregate meals to older adults and adults with disabilities). I also led efforts for $750k in federal funding for a Health & Human Services - Administration in Community Living pilot project grant to support innovation in addressing food insecurity and isolation among seniors in both urban and rural settings. As you may know, grant writing involves minimal writing per se; it's mostly project management. But occasionally, my narrative skills do come into play. POH is a 36-year-old org with an incredible "Food is Love" mission, based in SF's Tenderloin neighborhood. I joined right at the onset of Covid-19, produced 3 proposals my first week, and over 20 proposals in my first 90 days, most of them successful due to Open Hand's incredible track record and reputation in SF and Oakland.

San Francisco Bay Area

Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community". Founded in 1985, Project Open Hand provides meals with love to critically ill neighbors, seniors and adults with disabilities in San Francisco and the East Bay. Our food is like medicine, helping clients recover from illness, become stronger, and lead healthier lives.Unique Food-as-Medicine/Medical Nutrition model- 35-year track record- Current Relevance: COVID-19 nutrition recipes- 2,500 "medically tailored meals" served daily (SF and Oakland)- 200 bags of groceries daily (delivered and pantry pick-up)- 9,000 volunteers- Over 7,500 clients served annually- 1 million meals annually

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Editing, Ghostwriting and Writing Workshops. Client Book topics include cloud computing, angel investing, artificial intelligence, software testing platforms, social enterprise, project management, M&A, social selling, internet infrastructure, public accounting, and Human Resources management.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Did you like the supergroup The Travelling Wilburys?I can't recall any of their songs, but the idea of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and that ELO guy Jeff Lynne on the same stage is an astounding. Steely Dan did the same thing assembling most of Toto in the studio, along with Rick Derringer, Jeff Baxter, Victor Feldman, Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenhour, Wayne Shorter, Tom Scott and Joe Sample.Well, Muddy Gecko is kind of like that, but with marketing pros and not musicians. We've already been helping out companies like Micron, Nortek and Gluware with Marketing gaps, marketing overflow and fractional (metered) marketing services. Our team of 30 has previously worked in Technology, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Energy, at places like Intel and VMware, running brand strategy and producing videos for Apple and Mercedes Benz. I started out with MG as a writer, a word wizard on all things content - blogs, copy, white papers, ebooks, decks, press release, full-length feature books, video scripts, (B2B and B2C).I'm so sold on the concept, I've recruited three writer friends to backfill, so that I can help Muddy Gecko develop the Raleigh-Durham market, one of 25 cities/regions we will cover in 2018, from a scratch start in January, all self-funded growth. If you could add a full-stack marketing department to your company tomorrow, you’d consider it, right? What if you could leverage your industry knowledge with strategic planning, social media, SEO, video, content and design, the same way you scale up your Amazon or Azure Cloud? What if I could ship you:Graphic designers from Intel, Apple, and Cisco.Video Producers from Pepsi, Microsoft, and Mercedes Benz.Communications teams from Micron, Autodesk, and SanDisk.Muddy Gecko has built a network of the brilliant marketing freelancers and fractional marketing executive talent.As a lean start-up, Gecko's low overhead translates to lower mark-ups and lower fees. Let’s get started.

I've edited, ghostwritten, or co-authored 17 thought leadership books since 2018, on topics like: M&A, Agile Development, Cloud Computing, AI Product Development, Autonomous Software Testing, Project Management, Social Selling, Angel Investing and the Human Immune System. I basically cover the waterfront, and my methodology involves a 4-6 month sprint to publication, unless a trade publisher is involved (timeline is out of our hands). I am also a grant writer and have raised over $10 million for my clients in the social services sector. I also have experience on over $2 million in proposals, that resulted in runner-up status for federal Dept. of Education and Dept. of Commerce (NSF peer reviewed). Additionally, I have extensive private foundation grant writing experience for entrepreneurship, economic development and arts funding.Grant consultant for $2 million U.S. Dept of Education "Title III" strengthening Institution Program (SIP)Award pendingProject Scope: 50-page narrative, five-year budget and development of Logic ModelClient: Barton College, Wilson, NC

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Tired of the revenue plateau and being passed by repeatedly the slow lane on the Information Interstate?If you're stuck or frustrated, call me. I'll bring my posse to the corral.http://verticalgrowth.biz/team/I worked very hard at being a generalist. I am more focused on general management than most people are focused on their so-called speciality (called disparagingly, silos). Silos kill orgs, if you haven't noticed.An ecommerce VP at a Raleigh area $550 million (valuation) company recently said about me: "your value to a growing company is in cross functional integration, vision, connecting dots that others don’t see and then executing on the plan."Roles:Executive-level Content DevelopmentMarketing and CommunicationsGrant WriterNew Venture Growth and ExecutionInterim CMO, CEO

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

PuzzleMe is an HTML-5 based online gaming, retention and revenue platform for crosswords, with native, pre-roll ad and sponsorship functionality . It offers ways for a constructor to upload puzzles, manages the publication cycle, has a simple, mobile-friendly UX, and provides detailed analytics. It can be integrated into your site with an iframe, but can also communicate with the container page as needed -- e.g., to hook into advertising, pre-rolls, etc. The visual L&F, and interaction can be customized per your requirements, and we'd like to make the puzzle appear like a native part of your site. PuzzleMe is now the exclusive crossword platform for The Washington Post . One of the reasons the Post chose us to replace their existing page with Arkadium was to get a bespoke crossword experience that they fully control, rather than a generic games site. And I think all our customers will attest that we provide great support and responsiveness.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Bypass the old/tired/time-consuming HR evaluations that people do by hand and hate - The Ripple platform (subscription) helps you rates 5 key performance categories as easily as you rate an Uber Driver. Not only analyzes but provides remedy/development tools developed by the Center for Creative Leadership

San Francisco Bay Area

Editorial Calendar/WordPress production, Marketing, Project Management Clients: SanDisk, Samsung, Silent PartnerB2C BlogConcept, Editor, Writer http://www.sandiskmobility.comB2C Product Launch Video for Web and Retail Channel Kiosk ($25k budget)Concept, Writer, Producerhttps://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/connect-wireless-stick

Sausalito, Ca

Direct report to the CRO. Corporate Marketing. Account Manager, new client onboarding and cross selling (to newspapers and media companies)

San Francisco Bay Area

Progressed from freelance writer to direct report to Publisher for regional Hearst Media propertySF Gate (17 million monthly uniques, 155M page views, top 10 news website in US)Project Manager for all revenue initiatives, coordinating editorial, advertising, circulation and production units. Launched internal creative agency and 50 content modules with annual run rate of $1.2M

Direct report to CMO and CEO $30 million global cloud consultancy (sslesforce.com, eloqua, gooddata) Marketing, marketing operations and public relations for global IT "cloud" consulting firm

North Carolina

Conference planner, marketing and public relations to regulators, investors and patient groupsCommercialization briefings to FDA, biotech and venture fund execs and U.S. Army Surgeon GeneralProducer of first global regenerative medicine conference, featuring 16 new ventures Lauched first 501c4 (trade association) for the field in under 90 days. www.alliancerm.org

North Carolina

Report to board of directors(39); 12-county service area - economic development mission Board relations, fundraising, budgeting, marketing, consulting, event planningSeed Fund investing $50k non-dilutive in biotech, infotech and business services start-upsLaunched NC Nanotech and NEXUS Supply Chain Strategy/Logistics Tech Conferences

Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area

Tradeshow operations: 180 events annually in 8 states (hotels and convention centers)

Mfa, Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: Graduate Fellowship; Associate Editor of The Greensboro ReviewAssociate Poetry Editor of The Greensboro Review.

Ba, English, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: England Semester, San Francisco Urban Semester, Editor of "Phoenix" lit magazineEngland Semester; SF Urban.

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