Trudi Melohn Email & Phone Number

Hawaii, United States

Hawaii & California

If you're looking for a cost effective way to deliver your business message to today's Online audience, contact me. I can help you with conceptual Website development, Wordpress Website implementation, video production, social media and content writing. After you're up and running, we can look at online and traditional marketing plans to help your business get noticed. By assessing your business environment and looking at the analytics and/or AdWords effectiveness, we can drive more traffic to your Website, and hopefully through your door. I specialize in small businesses, and would love to hear about your business needs.I have worked with large corporations, but my style is more suited for small or family businesses. My clients are impressed with my ability to convey complex information in a manner that is easy to understand. My goal is to put you at ease in a world that may be outside your understanding.

Honolulu, Hi

One of the things I do best is to help clients understand what they need to know about the complex world and vocabulary of their online presence. Too many Website companies throw a lot of jargon around, making it very confusing for average people to understand. I take those complex topics and translate them into language that my client's can comprehend. This allows them to make good decisions about how to balance the messages they want to communicate, with the available budget. Kahala Pet Hospital is a great example of working with very intelligent clients, who are outside their area of expertise when it comes to their Website and e-messaging. I'm working with them to re-shape their Website content, and implement a unified messaging program, including email marketing, blog posts and video. I'm showing them how to analyze their website and Ad Words data, enabling them to break away from an expensive vendor. I'm also able to help with message content, by translating fairly technical medical writing into stories that pet owners will relate to from an emotional perspective. We recently produced a short video welcoming clients to the business, and providing an outline of services and philosophies. The video will be posted on their Website, Yelp and other key locations.

Honolulu Hi

Consulted with this world renowned family of artists to convert their HTML website to a portfolio format Wordpress site. We also Integrated social media elements to help raise awareness, and showcase their artwork. The site is media rich, and portals an air of elegance, which compliments the artwork. The family is able to do much of their own site maintenance. They bring me in for security/malware monitoring and to fix the occasional problem.

Sutter Creek, Ca

Enjoying wine is a very social experience. Avio wants their customers to bring the social aspects of visiting their tasting room home with them, I created a Facebook page and a virtual wine tasting application that reminds the Avio fans about their great experience in the tasting room. By starting with the wine club membership, Avio is slowly but surely building a fan base. I regulary visit the property and take photos of grounds, animals, vines and visitors. Those are periodically added to the Facebook page to inspire return visits to the page. In the future, we will be creating video stories featuring the owners and customers, showcasing Avio's wines, guest cottage and events. We are also in the process of updating the Avio public Web site. I'll be helping Avio improve usability, especially in this age of mobile devices. Additionally, we're revamping the business story to more effectively showcase the wines and on-property experiences, while maintaining the personal connection between the owners and our customers.

Mountain View Ca

Set up and administer both a Bigtent site for this homeowner's association. Train board members on concepts of social networking and how to get the most out of the utitilites.

Honolulu Hi

Created two Wordpress sites to provide an area for the public, and a password protected member area. Edit/author monthly e-newsletters, using the site's blog as the news platform. Messages are sent to members via Mailchimp. Implemented a database for managing property and member information.We also built and maintain a database of homeowner information, which has helped the board of directors to understand membership trends, and target specific groups with their email campaigns.

Honolulu Hi

I was approached to build this WordPress site after the College of Arts & Sciences went through a reorganization. The Advising Center (formerly CASSAS) is now focusing their advising on the Colleges of Arts & Humanities, and Languages, Linguistics & Literature. The original site contained a lot of now obsolete information, and was (in their words) poorly organized and ugly. To be fair, it was a site jam packed with information which needed to be updated and organized. It also needed to be dressed-up a bit.We went from dozens of wordy pages to, admittedly, still dozens of page now formatted to be more organized, readable and attractive. We used toggle and tab elements heavily to compact text heavy pages. We collected images from several of the departments departments served by The Advising Center, to add some color to the pages. The University’s font and color standards were also implemented.There are several videos that were hosted on the original site. We set up a YouTube Channel so that we could host those very large files somewhere outside the UH data center. This saved us storage space on the server, and helped the video files play more reliably. We did some minor edits to the videos to clean up starts and endings a bit. As part of setting up the YouTube account, we also included a Google+ page for the department.Staff members pitched in to update content and do some of the work setting up the new site. They are very happy with the results and are continuing to refine and improve the site content.

Plymouth Ca

Provided a detailed analysis of Story Winery's aging Website, and made strategic recommendations on how to bring it up to date. This included content revisions, mobile-friendly page structure and inclusion of Social Media elements. The new Website was built by a Web Developer, under my supervision, and was launched in July 2011. Post launch, I continue to advise on site consistency, usability and media content.

Define, write, edit and produce multi-media content for internal and external communications. Work with internal clients to help them understand the process, and finesse their messages for the most impact on their target audiences.

Work with touring shows to set and strike concerts and theatrical events. Provide technical and adminstrative support on film and television sets.

Manage studio floor operations during live broadcasts, including direct talent, assist studio crew with following the director's orders, plan studio crew's movements and execute on those plans.

Responsible for the design and construction of new biotech facility. Managed all facilities and IT related services. Supported VP of Operations.

Manage all areas of operations and staffing. Repair malfunctioning games. Aligned with Atari to field test new and prototype games.

Bugs Bunny's Bourbon Street Follies - spotlight operatorHoliday/Broadway - stagehand, light board operatorSilver Screen - lighting designer, light board operatorBugs Bunny's Wonder Circus - lighting designer, light board operatorIMAX - projectionist

Education record

Ba, Theatre Arts

Dramatic Arts

Dramatic Arts, Music

Active participant in the Class of '74 Reunion Committee. I've introduced social media and technical solutions to the way we communicate.