I’m a copywriter at heart with more than two decades of experience spanning the creative spectrum.
Planning an adventure or crafting a career—the most interesting route is rarely a straight line. My path has taken me from boutique agencies to corporate boardrooms, briefs to high-pressure pitches, and soundstages to editing suites.
I’ve collaborated with the industry’s leading creative minds while working for the world’s most celebrated brands. Along the way I’ve gained experience at every stage of the creative process and developed a wide and well-earned perspective.
I work across the gamut of creative assets including film, photography, digital, web, social, and internal creative brand material. I craft compelling brand strategy informed by holistic market research; concept breakthrough campaigns; set narrative content direction and write copy; pitch to in-house stakeholders and outside clients; creatively direct the work with internal teams and external partners; and collaborate with integrated marketing, project management, and account teams to see projects through to delivery as a creative content producer.
Wherever the journey leads I’m focused on delving into the details, shifting the paradigm, and relying on my creative compass to solve problems with inspired, engaging work that has meaning and impact.
HIGHLIGHTS
Creative and strategic marketing roles with in-house creative teams at Walt Disney Studios and director-level creative and management roles at OtterBox, Lift Foils, and the Marketing Practice
Extensive experience in entertainment, outdoor, sports, consumer technology, gaming, financial, education, public sector, health care, hospitality, and CPG marketing
Creative and AV content production experience as a copywriter, creative director, content director, creative producer, on-set producer, and post-production supervisor on live-action and animated projects for Disney, Universal Studios, OtterBox, Apple, Xbox, PopSockets, Lift Foils, Blue Credit Union, and WyoLotto
Worked with in-house creative and marketing teams, external agencies, and filmmakers on dozens of Disney, Pixar, and DreamWorks projects including Pirates of the Caribbean, The Avengers, The Incredibles, Lincoln, Brave, Toy Story 3, Secretariat, Tangled, The Muppets, National Treasure, Wreck-It Ralph, and WALL-E
Concepted, wrote, creatively directed, and produced all internal brand material and digital and AV media for the global OtterBox Live Connected brand launch, the largest campaign in the company’s twenty-year history
Led OtterBox’s creative partnerships with Apple, Amazon, Disney, Xbox, Real Tree, and PopSockets
Placed a script in the top 15% of 6,000 submissions for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting—the official writing competition of the Oscars
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