It all started when…
Years ago, as an undergrad from Connecticut who found himself in the wilds of North Carolina, I cobbled together an Advertising program from a mix of broadcasting, cinema, writing, PR, and marketing courses at UNCG.
I took all that to Vermont, where I sold TV ad time for the region’s CBS affiliate, which was great cover for my passion—writing and producing lots of client TV commercials—while actually earning a good living.
A few years later, I moved back to Connecticut and signed on as a Copy/Contact exec at French & Partners, a boutique B2B agency in NYC. I worked on trade media accounts like Aviation Week & Space Technology and the International Herald Tribune as well as corporate and aerospace accounts like GE, Loral Corp. and Aircraft Braking Systems. We also launched Doctors Without Borders in the U.S., which was pretty cool.
From the late ‘90s through 2009, I freelanced in Connecticut. I worked with some of the region’s top agencies and corporate clients like Pitney Bowes, DHL, Ziff-Davis and some of the world’s largest trade show producers.
In 2009, I brought the show to Seattle, where I worked at Wunderman for a while before taking a writing role at the Department of Defense’s National Center for Telehealth and Technology. For almost two years, I brought a business marketing sensibility to promote and seek funding for this tech-forward government agency that leveraged technology and psychology to help active-duty warfighters deal with the trauma they experienced in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How do you spell gratifying?
For me, Seattle is absolutely the right place at the right time. Business is solid, the art and music scenes are incredible, there’s food and drink of every kind everywhere you turn, a festival of some kind virtually every week, and nature around every corner.
I’ve also found a great outlet for service by working with Seattle’s Pratt Fine Arts Center. As a marketing committee and board member, I’ve helped nurture this great non-profit’s reputation as Seattle’s most accessible, professional, and fun places to make art.
In 2013 I went to work as senior copywriter at Zones, helping raise the solution provider’s profile as it grew from $1 billion to more than $2 billion. Working in the creative department at this lean organization, I did it all—from writing copy to building direct mail campaigns to social media management, event promotion, long-form articles and interviews, executive and corporate communications, web content, blogging, and video.
In 2019 I took a great gig with Projectline, working on the Microsoft Brand Content Studio team and doing landing pages, emails, and SEO pages for Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.
What’s your story?
I’d like to help you tell it.