Experience

• 

  Midnight Waffles

  • Spokane, Washington, United States

  • CMO / Director / Producer

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Spokane, Washington, United States

    Midnight Waffles is a digital studio serving up tall stacks of video and animation from the Pacific Northwest in Spokane, WA. Our heart and soul is local, but our reach and grasp is global. Stop by and have a bite.

• 

  Fellow Coworking

  • 304 W. Pacific Avenue Suite 210

  • Partner

    • Feb 2014 - Present
    • 304 W. Pacific Avenue Suite 210

    Fellow Coworking has established its value as a coworking space around themes of community-building, interdisciplinary collaboration, shared expertise, and a commitment to making Spokane a more vibrant and fulfilling city to ply our respective professions and passions. We continually recruit some of the brightest punters throughout the Inland Northwest, like the X-Men Academy for rad people and thinkers. We also have a Space Invaders arcade machine. No coins necessary, fortunately, because it's brutally difficult.

• 

  Coastal Community Bank

  • Digital Experience Director

    • Jul 2021 - Feb 2024

    I worked with a small team of my best friends and most talented colleagues to create a web-based 3D marketing platform called Coastal World. The project started with first identifying a partner and collaborator. I reached out to a digital studio in Paris called Merci Michel and quickly determined they were exactly the right blend of brave, imaginative, and silly (like us) to journey into the unknown. The result was a website that delighted millions of users and got the attention of Awwwards, The FWA, and CSS Design Awards. We received Site of the Day and Site of the Month from all three publications along with CSS Design Awards Website of the Year for 2022.

• 

  Treatment

  • Spokane, Washington Area

  • Founder

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2023
    • Spokane, Washington Area

    The idea behind Treatment, from day one: work hyper-locally with people who share our love for the city of Spokane by applying lean principles to branding, web, video, and content marketing.

• 

  North by Northwest Productions

  • Producer

    • Apr 2012 - 2014

    North by Northwest (NXNW) is a full service digital studio serving agencies and direct clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. Within my role as Producer, from project origination through completion, I managed and allocated resources, prepared statements of work, budgets, and schedules for web, mobile, and integrated products. While coordinating efforts with clients and their marketing personnel, I also provided copywriting and content strategy to ensure that business goals were consistently aligned with desired UX / audience outcomes. Our teams plied lean / agile methodologies, which led to a distribution of ownership, effort, institutional knowledge, and resulted in highly productive collaboration within and across small teams.In 2014, our team was recognized at the Spokane Addy Awards with "Best in Show | Digital" for its integrated project for Pearson Packaging Systems (web, photo, video).

• 

  Ookla

  • Senior Account Executive

    • 2011 - 2012

    Ookla is the global leader in broadband testing and web-based network diagnostic applications. The company's software and methodologies set the broadband industry standards for accuracy, popularity, ease of use and the subsequent development of statistical data. As an Account Executive, I negotiated and managed to completion both sales and support transactions for the licensing of Ookla's software and data licensing. Day to day, my tasks included liaising between team and client during design and development of custom applications for multinational clientele including Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, T-Mobile, and Dell, Inc. I also contributed to the refinement of process improvements via the use of CRM and project management tools.

• 

  Arctic Research Consortium of the United States

  • Fairbanks, Alaska

  • Web Developer

    • Sep 2001 - Nov 2009
    • Fairbanks, Alaska

    ARCUS is a nonprofit organization consisting of institutions organized and operated for educational, professional, or scientific purposes to advance arctic research and education. As a web developer, I worked closely with our Executive Director, Project Managers, member institutions, and National Science Foundation stakeholders, in a coordinated effort to provided content strategy, copywriting and editing, and front-end layout of programmatic materials for a wide range of arctic science efforts and initiatives.