Marlon Regis Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Pursuit.org gave me an opportunity to ideate into a world of tech that I never felt I had an official "in" into before. After going through their application process, I said to myself, if I do get accepted (which I did), my goal would be to figure out how do I merge my previous experience as a writer/blogger/music curator, with all that Pursuit has to offer. I'm Marlon Regis, a full-stack web developer, and I hope to make an impact in the future of tech!

Brooklyn, Ny

• Independent contractor and freelancer (copywriter, writer, creative & consultant) delivering on anything from daily creative content for Driven Brands roster of companies – Ad briefs, App promos & Email Marketing campaigns; BIO upgrades/rewrites for the executive and talent roster at The Teknique Group; to cultivating brochures and internal copy for GUESS, Inc. campaign(s); to editing copy/communications for Ocean News Network; consulting + conceptualizing editorial for ODOS; to curating cultural events for SONOS.• Highly persuasive copywriting, proofreading and writing skills for text/copy to produce, shape and create catalogs, billboards, B2B, taglines, brochures, webpages and other online content for traditional advertising or marketing in multiple small busineses, independent artists, tech start-ups and blogs.• Participating artist in Creatives Rebuild New York’s (2022-2023) ‘Guaranteed Income for Artists’ program.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Sole creator and content editor for this lifestyle & music blog -- updated periodically.• Utilized social media platform TUMBLR to educate, ‘edu-tain’ and inform mostly industry insiders by posting music (videos, streams) that may otherwise be lost in the mainstream ecosystem.• Solved the politics of social mishaps, wins and the bizarre, by approaching theories intellectually.. Witty, casual, short-form writing style and typical social media format that engaged readers into everything creative.

Greater New York City Area

• Ideated stories that sparked debate, increased diverse readership; previewed new music/artists, forecasting trends and highlighting worthiness of newfound talent – fostering enhanced ad revenues.• Leveraged pop culture events by engaging the readership to exclusive access, optimized my in-depth interviews, untapping the source beneath the surface, implementing collaboration with label & independent publicists to use quotes, copy and links within press-kits to inspire the greater media.

Greater New York City Area

• Composed original, creative and innovative editorial content for Ketchum’s internal site, including concept development, long/short form, proofreading and editing copy, as well as some visual storytelling.• Hands-on page design/graphic art for intranet daily news site, negotiating the visuals to accompany stories.• Streamlined as part of the internal communications team alongside the social media team to maintain unison for editorial calendar, and occasional use of daily intranet news clips. • Built up a ‘variety’ of content - including corporate announcements, internal interviews, PR awards roundup, “evergreen” stories, and global office news across 72 countries to engage and inform colleagues.• Created unique, shareable pieces of internal communications content, and managed production schedule with Creative Strategist.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Launched press releases + media advisories by proofreading, editing, formatting and distributing through PR Newswire, Business Wire, Advanced VocusPR + PRWeb in times of crisis and for agents’ direct-to-customer strategy as part of a national media relations team that specialized in national/regional PR.• Spearheaded, sourced and distributed monthly media clips (in-house) to measure PR success.• Transformed monthly reports of company news from broadcast, print and online media, showcasing company analytics in earned-media, highlighting millions saved in ad equivalency.• Innovatively was active in the oversight of new vendor options, tools and wire services to support our small team’s national outreach duties; and digitized all press releases/media content for farmers.com media center.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Senior contributing editor & writer/consultant shepherding entertainment & global music trends.• Transformed for 10 years a fire and flame into the premier reggae & world music publication (The Beat Magazine) as Dancehall music columnist, under the alias ‘Mr. Marlon’! Reviews, festival coverage + cover stories used within legal documents to secure travel visas for foreign-based artists to fulfill North American, European and Asian festival bookings, tours and appearances.• Wrote multiple cover stories in many genres of music for various types of media outlets based within or outside North America – maintained and increased sales, paid subscriptions and built on trusted branding

United States

• Now part of the 'Mood Media' group Responsible for partnering with the Senior Program Director to oversee two channels – namely the REGGAE channel and HIP-HOP & URBAN BEAT channels with a reach of 80 million daily listeners, in 6 million homes, 180 businesses and 30 airlines internationally, some clients which include Sak’s 5th Avenue, Guess Inc?, Westin Hotels and American Airlines, just to name a few. • Designed, built from scratch and co-led the development of a series of ‘custom’ channels, unique only to the flagship Sean John retail store in the heart of New York City’s luxury brand 5th Avenue.

Bachelor Of Arts, English, 3.4

Activities and Societies: Full Academic Scholarship; Dean’s List & Honor Roll (Morehouse College): 4yrs; 1st Exchange Student to attend.

Exchange Program, Film/Video And Photographic Arts, 3.8

For 1 year, my host undergraduate school -- Morehouse College, approved me as the first of its students to embark on an exchange program.

Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: 10.3 Pursuit Fellows, Hackathons, GitHub Community, Codewars, Codetrack, CSSBattle, Leetcode... Pursuit.org gave.

Computer Software Engineering

Education record