• 12+ years professional MarCom experience including work in Entertainment, Finance, Business to Business, Consumer Direct, Health Care, Retail, Education and Recruitment


• Proven ability to immediately grasp ideas and effectively communicate concepts with original, compelling copy and images


• Power user mastery of all major design software including Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator, Pagemaker, Director and Flash


• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS


• Inexhaustible commitment to finding solutions that generate results

AppleOne Employment Services, Los Angeles, CA
Director of Creative Services May 1996-Present
I have been directly responsible for crafting the company's message across all channels including advertising, public relations, sales collateral and a highly dynamic web site that has grown by more than 1000% and now serves more than 500,000 unique sessions and nearly 5 Million page views per month.

Duties: Directing a Creative and Technical Staff of Nine, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Copywriting, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Public Relations and Corporate Communications.

Stiletto Entertainment, Los Angeles, CA
Copywriter/Assistant Marketing Manager May 1995-May 1996
Freelance Writer July 1996-December 1997
Stiletto gave me a chance to write in virtually every discipline. While there, I was responsible for increasing merchandise sales by 28%.

Duties: Copywriting, Editing, Publicity, Public Relations, Merchandise Development, Accounting, and Coordinating the Advertising Efforts of Promoters All Over the World.

HDR Engineering, Inc., Omaha, NE
Graphic Designer May 1992-March 1994 October 1994-February 1995
Although I'm primarily a writer, HDR helped me learn to think visually, taught me to take a project from concept to final design and find the right vendors to print it. Of course, there's nothing like working on multi-million dollar projects to teach you to be a REAL team player.

Duties: Design, Printing Coordination and Advertising Development.

103.7 KXKT Radio, Omaha, NE
Promotions Director March 1994-October 1994
Freelance Comedy Writer July 1992-February 1995
Comedy writing really allowed me to flex my creative muscle. When I later took charge of the station's promotions to help them through a transitional period, I was also able to gain managerial and supervisory experience.

Duties: Developing and Executing Events Oriented Public Relations, Scheduling and Supervising Promotional Interns, Acting as a Coordinator and Liaison for the Sales Force, the Air Talent and Clients, Writing and Creating Parody Ads.

Standard Blue, Omaha, NE
Advertising Assistant January 1991-January 1992 Duties Included: Retail Copywriting, Desktop, Media Planning and Buying, Sales, and Some Accounting.

Adworks Advertising, Kearney, NE
Intern October 1989-January 1990 Duties Included: Copywriting, Desktop, Media Placement, Sales, and everything else.

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Bachelor of Science in Communication, 1993
Major: Advertising/Public Relations
Minor: English