1993 -
2001

Chameleon Creative, Inc.
Boulder, Colorado

Marketing Director, Principal

• Co-founded and grew Chameleon Creative, Inc. (CCI) into a successful seven person, full-service advertising, marketing and creative services agency. Sold CCI in 2001.

• Goal-oriented, hands-on, mentoring management style which encourages continuous employee skills improvement, efficient work processes, on-time and on-specification results, and creative thinking.

• Extensive experience in both business-to-business and consumer sectors utilizing integrated marketing communications strategies spanning nearly all media forms.

• Both hands-on and management-level experience in graphic design, traffic/project management, art direction, account development, account management, copy writing/editing, vendor management, market research, strategic analysis, media planning and public relations.

• Developed numerous long-term, profitable client relationships and strategic partnerships with vendors and contract talent. More than half of the clients from CCI's first year in business were still clients in 2001.

• Excellent organization and process management, development and improvement skills. For example, developed the Estimation and Project Management System (EPMS) using FilemakerPro. The EPMS virtually eliminated cost and time overruns; improved client communication by automatically generating reports and other documents with up-to-the-minute information; improved per-project profits; reduced proposal development time by 60%; and streamlined the management of the creative staff, particularly in the areas of work assignment and productivity review.

• Extensive experience with all major creative and business software including the Microsoft Office Suite, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, PageMaker, Freehand, Illustrator, Flash, GoLive and Dreamweaver on both Macintosh and PC platforms. Extensive experience setting up and maintaining Macintosh networks for creative services.

• Founded and later sold Intratech, an industrial recruiting firm specializing in mid- to high-level technical personnel placements in the Chemical Industry.

• As a consultant, helped Intratech become a leader in web-enabled industrial recruiting services for the Chemical Industry. Initially responsible for identifying the opportunities and benefits of adding an Internet component to the business model. Consulted throughout the visioning, development, testing and launch phases of the web development project. Developed the marketing launch plan and assisted in its execution. Consulted on the modification of traditional recruiting practices to take advantage of both planned and unplanned benefits resulting from the website.

• On-going consultation on business and marketing strategy, operations, and major account development and management.

• Primarily provided sales support for outside sales staff including technical support for proposal development and presentation; targeting and researching prospects; developing procedures for streamlining the sales process and measuring sales performance; and developing sales support literature. Responsibilities also included arranging the retail floor, setting up equipment demonstration areas and installing POS/POP materials.

• Began with the company as an inside salesperson selling computers and peripherals to consumers and small businesses. Consistently met or exceeded sales goals and developed an excellent base of repeat customers.

1986 -
1992

U.S. Marine Corps
Washington, D.C.

Computer Programmer/Analyst