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VP, Copy Supervisor
Marketing & Account Development
Campbell-Ewald Advertising
December.04 - Present
My team feeds the agency. We concept great ideas, pitch them to potential new clients, win big business. It’s also my job to put a good face on the agency by managing all of our external communications: web site, house ads, crazy marketing stunts. So I write a lot of stuff — articles, video scripts, radio and TV, web copy, presentations, blogs, speeches. And I design stuff — packaging, direct mail, print ads, environmental graphics. I’m used to working with the top-level execs on a daily basis and all the politics and nuances such a task involves.
Brands won on my watch: Ghirardelli Chocolate, California Association of Realtors, University of Michigan Health Systems, U.S. Navy, U.S. Mint, American Heart Association Go Red For Women Campaign, Olympic Paints, Taubman Group, Janus Mutual Funds, Intuit/Quicken
Among other things:
- Leading member of CE’s Women2Women Communications Group, a trends think tank and research collaborative; recently developed
- Lead creative on the Campbell-Ewald Garden Initiative, an environmentally-minded, market-focused blog site and agency resource
Creative At Large
Corner of the Playroom
January.03 - December.04
Had three kids. Traded the conference table for the changing table, but couldn’t stay away. Moved desk into corner of playroom and continued producing creative for clients like BBDO Detroit, Campbell-Ewald, Chemistri, Mount Clemens General Hospital, ZipForm, Project Education.
Among other things:
- Directed day-to-day operations of thriving freelance business while negotiating sibling rivalry
- Managed creative process from concept to completion; loads of experience working and negotiating with vendors
- Projects included print, interactive, direct mail, advertising; regular feature writer for MBUSA Connect Magazine
Senior Writer/Art Director
Push 22
May.99 - January.03
Hands-on, little-bit-of-everything creative workhorse at small marketing and interactive firm.
Among other things:
- Assisted in management and creative direction of agency’s largest accounts
- Mentored junior-level writers
- Developed and promoted non-profit niche within agency
RELATED EXPERIENCE
- Director of creative writing program at summer arts camp for teens
- Helped rebuild a chapel in an earthquake-devastated area of El Salvador while 5 months pregnant (ok, that’s not really related but it speaks to my tenacity and proficiency with a nail gun)
BOOKSMARTS
Evangel College
BA, Journalism/Spanish, 1995
- Recipient of four top writing awards from the Missouri College Media Association and Society for Collegiate Journalists
- Editorial staff of weekly student newspaper
- Expository Writing Editor for collegiate literary Journal
STREETSMARTS
- Proficient on Mac and PC based platforms (but, of course, I prefer Mac); Adobe CS3, MS Office; know enough of Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and CSS to be dangerous.
- Photography buff with experience in metering, lighting, composition, darkroom developing and processing
- Expert in diffusing temper tantrums (all ages)
