Tony Johnson Email & Phone Number

Lee's Summit, MO, US

Olathe, Kansas, US

Responsible for all digital marketing activities for Pinnacle Staffing Group, including websites, social media, email marketing, print design, as well as coordinating activities associated with our Indeed recruiting account.

Lee's Summit, MO, US

• Gained hands-on experience by designing and building more than 100 websites during my 20-year career.
• Offer complete marketing services from social media marketing to branding and print design, including large format trade show signage.
• Work with clients from coast-to-coast, including a New York Times Best-Selling Author to small, local non-profits.
• Build strong relationships with clients - several lasting a decade or more - to thoroughly understand their personal and organizational needs and deliver customized, visually appealing messaging.
• Proudly offer timely, friendly and accurate customer service and free brainstorming sessions with clients to continuously better their brand.
• Stay current on software, design and marketing trends to offer best practices to every client.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Plan a major upgrades to the company’s Trucking News website, CDLLife.com, which earns more than 50 million page views per year:
• Safe plugin cleanup and updates, scaling down from 46 to 15.
• Ensure major theme & WordPress upgrade does not disrupt the 20,000+ articles and paid ad network.
• Improve SEO through on-site and other hosting/speed best practices.Assist 40+ clients with website updates, hosting management and more.Help launch a new endeavor for the company, building job application landing pages.
• Also designed/built home page for this new product: Apply-Now.com

Lenexa, KS, US

• Smith & Loveless Website Network
• Design, build, maintain and promote S&L’s network of websites.
• Improve Search Engine Optimization rankings with responsive designs, SSL certificates, link building, meta data and other best practices.
• Partner with S&L’s IT department to optimize website hosting, resulting in significant improvements in stats: - Increased site Users more than 25% during last 4 years. - Bounce rate of 42%, 16% less than industry.
• Research companies, negotiate contracts, and manage relationships with outside website development vendor to continuously add features to S&L corporate website.
• Regularly write and design content to keep site current and fresh.Direct and Social Media Marketing

Lenexa, KS, US

• Successfully managed all aspects of S&L’s monthly corporate newsletter, multi-page product bulletins, and multi-page direct mail parts catalogs, from design to written content.
• Designed, maintained, and promoted company websites, increased visitors through SEO practices.

• One of two IT professionals for the School of Journalism who maintained the entire computer network of 200+ Apple and Windows computers in four buildings on two campuses.
• Hired, trained and supervised a skilled team of student lab assistants who helped students learn software.
• One of two faculty / staff members qualified to train students in web design, development, and site organization, instructed Multimedia Reporting students on basic web page design in Dreamweaver.
• Voluntarily collaborated with the KU Endowment Association’s Development Director and student content creators that I hired to produce the J-School Alumni Newsletter.

• Worked directly with clients, advertising agencies and in-house programmers to design eye-catching websites.
• Designed user interfaces and developed interactive CDs.
• Developed my ability to design / build websites and manage client relationships, allowing me to develop skills I use every day both as a full-time professional and freelancer.

Bs Journalism, Journalism, English

Bs, Journalism – Advertising