Mark Heaps Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

As Head of Brand, Creative, and Communications for Groq I've built a spectacular team of talented individuals who create content that balances the two worlds of deeply complex and technical information with the goal of making it a pleasure to experience and ingest. Building a startup brand from a near zero state we've evolved and matured both our visual expression and our language used to explain our products, culture, and business. As "One Team" is a driving tenet of our communications arm we focus on building and connecting community both inside and outside of our organization, promising to bring everyone along in our journey with transparency and the sharing of rough drafts, a core value in our culture.I have overseen the development of our brand systems, integrating robust tools for engineers and admins alike to be empowered in their projects, keeping them aligned with our brand and core values. Incorporating technical staff and legal counsel at each stage to insure the alignment of key stakeholders within our organization.As a member of the leadership team I'm extremely proud of the work our organization produces for the brand where we inject a human soul with intellect that reflects the sort of talent density Groq is known for.Bezos was once famously quoted as saying, "Brand is what people say about you when you aren't in the room." For Groq, I lead and believe strongly that a brand is what people feel about when you aren't present and represent you as to others. Together, One-team, Keeping Humanity in the Soul of Artificial Intelligence.

Mountain View, California, Us

Currently operating in a position supporting the company founded by my brilliant and talented wife Kristina Heaps. My position involves supporting new accounts, creative solutions for specialized client projects, and structuring our contractor/vendor resources for ideal production systems. My wife has successfully ran Heaps LLC with advisement and counsel from me for over three years and now we're partnered together to turn our family name into a top tier service group. With twenty years of involvement in graphic design, production, fabrication, and multimedia industries centered around Fortune 500 level corporations and their business design needs, we're excited to partner up and bring both our talents and resources to the table for all client partners

Austin, Tx, Us

Houndstooth Studios is a multi-disciplinary media and design agency that is owned and operated by Enspire Learning. The subsidiary group was led by me with a great team of professional creatives where we conceived, designed, and executed on a wide array of projects for both start-ups companies around Austin and Fortune 500 companies. We have produced projects for Dell, AMD, Seton Hospital, Texas Department of Agriculture, Barkbox, and many more. We often partnered with other agencies as a specialized scalability solution for projects that required knowledge in producing for the ultimate audience experience. Designing and programming interactive exhibits, interactive HTML5 eLearning projects, branding, and more through the use of various tools such as audio, video, motion graphics, animation, illustration, photography and more.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for the growth and development of all Studio/Agency employees relating to project throughput in areas of both technical, professional, and administrative skills. Helping guide the growth of individual and team abilities by analyzing competency with core strengths mapped to our service offerings. Develop individuals to future leadership positions within the company to drive retention as a part of our value proposition.

Santa Clara, California, Us

I've recently been promoted and changed roles at Duarte Design. My new position is Senior Development Specialist.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Graphic Designer at one of the greatest agencies I've ever worked with. Developing presentation, brand, and media projects to help clients speak with a louder voice and clearer message. Using the Slide:ology process in our day to day work flow allows us to offer, and treat, every assignment with consistently tested and successful presentation design practices.

Santa Clara, California, Us

High end production artist and graphic design work supporting a major anchor account team. I worked on site at events doing live production/design editing as well as execution of concepts provided by the Design Lead or Creative Director.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Successfully provide commercial design services to Fortune 500 clients in various industries. These ranged from online advertising, high-tech, internal MarComm groups, and PR Communications. Each task involved a different skill-set ranging from illustration all the way through to project management and art direction. Some clients that used my work were Apple, Microsoft, Google, HP, Palm, and more.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Supervisor overseeing 100+ operators involved in Quality Control / Assurance for the Booksearch, Google Maps, Streetview, Orkut, and other tasks.Analysis of production trends, reporting metrics and developing strategies to improve efficiency and accuracy while meeting throughput goals. Work with engineers on task UI and managers for staffing quality.

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Senior Instructor of Graphic Design and Multimedia degree programs for the Sunnyvale campus. In charge of helping co-develop the curriculum with various department heads, instructors and Deans of the campus during my 5 years there.My primary focus was student learning outcomes, retention, and industry relations. The core classes I taught were Digital Imaging, Advanced Illustration, Corporate Branding, Graphic Design theory, Typography, Web Animation and Web Design/Programming.I also worked with the Marketing Director on local advertising campaigns for both print and web media.

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I assisted with the execution of concepts and created mockups of various online-advertising pieces. Developed online ad and interactive ad concepts, delivered final designs to agency for use with client media.

Cupertino, California, Us

Contract position to produce high end Photoshop/Illustrator graphics as requested by various departments. Specifically contracted to help meet project goals for Macworld 2006. Met strict deadlines with high volume job flow.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Publisher of Data Sheets and Illustrator of products for Advertising, Cover Graphics, PR Graphics, Presentations and Marcom materials. Proof read data content with editor to confirm technical specs and checked blue-line and film from print vendors internationally.