Experience
Los Angeles: Feb 2020-Present
Google - Creative Director
HIGHLIGHTS //
helping clients, brands and studios thrive on Google-owned properties and speak the language of YouTube.
Los Angeles: July 2017-Sept 2019
Live Nation/GreenLight - Sr. Writer
HIGHLIGHTS //
Responsible for big ideas & music PROGRAMS for Google Pixel, Waymo, Sierra Nevada & Ultimate Ears. Promoted to senior writer. HEARD JASON ALDEAN “SANG” KARAOKE. wON the OFFICE CONFERENCE room naming contest.
Everywhere: April 2016 - July 2017
Me - Freelance Creative
Agency + CORPORATE partners //
LIVE NATIOn/greenlight media & marketing, TBWA/MAL FOR GOOD, SLINGSHOT LLC, PITCH, HARDTACK CREATIVE, FAB FIT FUN, FABLETICS, SWIMMING DUCK, CAZAYOUX CREATIVE
Los Angeles: Feb 2015 - April 2016
Pitch - Copywriter
HIGHLIGHTS //
CREATED THE Pepsi 1893 Soda Sommelier. GOT A SCRIPT APPROVED BY J.J. Abrams. PITCHED & WON THE WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTER ACCOUNT. ALMOST HAD A SPOT iN THE SUPER BOWL. WOMP WOMP.
Dallas: Sept 2013 - FEB 2015
Slingshot LLC - Jr. Copywriter
HIGHLIGHTS //
learned by the TERRIFYING BUT EFFECTIVE "sink or swim" method. EXPERIENCED my first pitch, first radio record, first web rebrand & first national print campaigN. put on my favorite floaties and THREW myself into the current.
New York: June 2013 - Sept 2013
Deutsch - Copy Intern
HIGHLIGHTS //
Donny’s squad kept me busy on the following clients: TNT Mob City, Outback steakhouse, milkpep (got milk?), godaddy, PNC, snuggle, exelon patch and lunesta. ironically, I probably lost the most sleep over the latter.
Education
Sept 2019 - Present
New York University
Music Industry Essentials // ONLINE CERTIFICATE
Classes: History of Recording Industry, the music business, creativity in content and artistry, building your image, producing the record, and marketing music in the new economy.
AUG 2009 - MAY 2013
Southern Methodist University