Sean M. Phipps Email & Phone Number

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

As the Marketing Director, I serve as the pivotal liaison between Miles Partnership, our Agency of Record (AOR), and our organization. My role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities that contribute to the overall success of our marketing initiatives.Key Responsibilities:🤝 Strategic Partnerships: Act as the general liaison between our AOR and the organization, ensuring seamless communication and project execution.📊 Local Marketing: Maintain a keen eye for local marketing opportunities and execute targeted campaigns to maximize reach and ROI.💼 Invoice Management: Responsible for processing a majority of marketing invoices, ensuring budget adherence and financial efficiency.📢 Campaign Advisement: Provide comprehensive marketing advisement for our monetary partners during seasonal co-op campaigns.🎥 Media Placement: Support our sports, meetings, and visitor services departments with strategic media placements.🖥 Digital Experience Team Management: Serve as the direct supervisor to the Digital Content Manager, Digital Content Creative Specialist, and Graphic Designer. Lead the team in executing digital strategies, content creation, and graphic design, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.Ongoing Initiatives:📈 Co-op Marketing Program: Seasonal or biannual co-op marketing campaigns to boost brand visibility and engagement.🛠 Workforce Development: Leading specific campaigns to address workforce needs in the tourism sector.📹 Video Marketing: Spearheading video marketing initiatives, including work on the annual tourism summit and monthly CHA Spotlights.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Chattanooga, Tn

As of July of 2013, I work as Nooga.com's Lifestyle Reporter on a full-time basis. As a reporter, I cover a variety of themes including music, culture and human interest.I will continue to write weekly opinion columns, dining and album reviews.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Sean is currently Multimedia Journalist - Lifestyle Editor of NOOGAtoday in Chattanooga, T.N., a local market segment of 6AM City, LLC.6 AM is developing a scalable network of hyper local media properties. Delivered via a publishing technology platform designed to maximize audience participation. Where the public are publishers.We aggregate, curate + deliver the need-to-know local news, conversations, events + hot topics, via a daily email, online, and across social channels.We are redefining how communities engage, communicate, connect and experience the cities we serve.

Chattanooga, Tn

Chattanooga, Tn

Burns Downtown offers the finest cigars, pipes, and accessories in the Chattanooga region. We also feature an array of gentleman's luxury items including: classic shaving kits, ties, cuff-links, knives etc. Burns Downtown is also the future home of the "members only" Davidoff of Geneva Lounge, scheduled to open in Summer of 2013. My duties include:-- offering expert advice and customer service regarding Tobacco products.-- monitoring and utilizing all facets of social media, including twitter (@BurnsDowntown). -- marketing upcoming events and promotions using social media and traditional media outlets.-- facilitating the best possible customer experience in a luxury, upscale environment.-- providing education to the often misunderstood world of tobacco, while championing the "finer things" in life.

Downtown Chattanooga

Lead a group of up to thirty guests on a ninety-minute walking tour of downtown Chattanooga with stories of some of the city’s most haunted locations. Entertain the group with stories about the sordid history of Chattanooga while maintaining a lighthearted atmosphere.-- requires a quick-wit, and an ability to improvise depending on group.

Chattanooga, Tennessee

- Involved in numerous projects from the inception of the idea to completion. This includes working directly with clients to focus their vision into a reality, using various media platforms. - Participated in all facets of Moss Media Labs, including Event Marketing, Social Media Marketing and Social Media Training.- Used social media strategies to develop various marketing campaigns for clients in the Chattanooga region.

Chattanooga, Tn

Developed a line of luxury leather products for consumers. Learned the business of "leather" from cow to wallet.

Chattanooga, Tn

Served as the company’s organizational administrator in Athens, TN for six months before becoming Supervisor of a sorting crew at Gestamp Chattanooga (a Volkswagen supplier). Managed a staff of fifteen over three shifts as an outside company for 6 days per week while completing tasks on strict deadlines in a high-pressure environment.

Chattanooga, Tn

Prepared content and lined-up national guests for live program daily. Worked with National Ad team to seek sponsors. Was featured, alongside host David Magee, on every program and became known nationally as “The Newsman.” Conducted detailed news research, which required hours of daily reading.Airing live, loud and clear from, and for, Main Street America, covering news and affairs from Wall Street to Main Street, and everywhere in between. The David Magee Show was available daily in 20 million American Homes on both the BIZ television network and the American Life Network.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Managed the online audio portion of this major daily newspaper’s website, which included editing and voicing news podcasts twice-daily in addition to various interviews and projects. Created the FYI Music Awards, a live music awards show featuring local musicians and media personalities.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

Local Host of NPR’s Morning Edition/creator of the popular “Around and About” radio story series, now a daily feature. On-air contributor during membership drives during evening drive-time 4 to 7pm. Job also included frequent media appearances at both Nightfall and Riverbend (local music events), among others.

Communications/English/Journalism

Communications, English

Activities and Societies: Assistant News Editor for "The Echo" student newspaper