
Independent Contractor at The Vital Three
Portland, Oregon Area

Independent Contractor at The Vital Three
Portland, Oregon Area
Currently focused on landing a position in the field of planning and strategy. In my academic and volunteer experience I've had the opportunity to tackle multiple positions in the creative realm, thus molding me into an advertising "MacGyver."
Project Management, Account Planning, Brand Strategy, Creative Strategy, Audience Identification
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
What can you expect of us?
You can expect us to find truths about your company and competitors. To find and help shape truths about brands. And, of course, to unearth those unruly truths about people and the social, cultural, and psychological influences on their behavior.
We’re available for:
* Brand & Communications Strategy
* Category Immersion & Analysis
* Qualitative & Secondary Research
* Socio-cultural Explorations & Forces of Change
It’s a pretty safe bet that you won’t like everything we tell you. If it makes you feel any better we won’t always like telling it. But making sense of the tangled mess of rational and irrational influences on your business (and consumer) can make you a stronger more respected brand. We like that a lot.
**See a work sample at www.sensetruth.com/approach/creativeassignments/page5/page5.html
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Bauer Graphics was founded in 2003 with the vision of developing a creatively-led, full-service design company that offers an alternative to the high-priced creative agencies while providing a community for many of Portland’s most talented print, Illustration and web designers.
Bauer Graphics strives to exceed the expectations of all client requests. Each client is both meaningful and unique which is why our designs work to reflect the individuality of your brand and focus our efforts on accurately representing the clarity of mission and message.
What divides Bauer Graphics from our competition are both the efforts we provide on behalf of our clients coupled with our three core principles of creating powerful designs;
Recognizing the individuality of your brand
The clarity and delivery of your message
To be true and sincere in presentation
The team at Bauer Graphics has extensive experience in serving local, national and international clients. Partnering with high profile SEO and technical consulting firms we continue to educate our team and our clientelle so that we evolve, expand, and engage in all aspects of online and offline branding marketing.
(Professional Training & Coaching industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
The Vital Three is a world class, innovative,
organizational consultation and coaching firm.
We provide exceptional value through improving the
intelligence, efficacy, well being,and overall functioning
of our client’s organizations and their employees.
By providing resources, services and structure, we empower individuals and organizations to recognize
the imminent workability of any situation, seek positive
resolution, and engage all situations so as to realize
their true potential through improved efficacy and
dynamic intelligence.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
The Ethiopia Project collects new and gently used running shoes in North America and fits them on aspiring athletes in the African nation of Ethiopia.
The foundation was formed in the spring of 2007 and the first delivery is to be made fall of 2008.
For more information, contact Andrew Buswell at ep.andrew@gmail.com. For information on how you can become a part of The Ethiopia Project or general inquiries about volunteering, contact Kylie Holland at ep.volunteer@gmail.com.
Website: www.ethiopiaproject.com/home.html
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year )
PAF Celebrating 100 year of setting the standard for the Creative, Design, and Media Community!
You'd think New York or San Francisco, not Portland, was this country's first club of that kind. In 1906, a group of business and professional leaders put their heads together to form an ad club, establishing Portland as a leader in the creative business community. 100 years, at least 76 presidents, and three name changes later, the Portland Advertising Federation, now known as the PAF, is one of the strongest ad clubs in the country.
Coming into the 21st century, PAF is focusing on its program activity and benefits on explicit member disciplines. PAF programs run throughout the year and have been instrumental in bringing some of the most exciting and innovative thinkers in the business to our region. To name a few: John F. Kennedy, JR. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point Chris Riley, Head of Planning, Graphic Design Group, Apple Computer, Inc. Jameel Spence, President of New York-based Blue Flame Marketing & Advertising. Neal Stewart, Brand Manager of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Andrew Keller, CB+P, Group Creative Director on MINI. Kevin Carroll, brand evangelist and ESPN show host. John Butler, principal at Butler Shine Stern & Partners, author of Converse Brand Democracy. Joey Carson, CEO of reality television pioneers Buni-Murray Productions.
PAF is member inclusive, including all disciplines in communication arts: advertising agencies, media partners (radio, TV, and print), interactive communication, and client-side marketing professionals. Each Executive Director and each Board of Directors makes their mark on the progress and future of PAF. Current Executive Director Jamie Sexton is working with the Board and Executive Committee on an aggressive marketing approach for PAF that includes re-branding, value-driven educational programs, new member development, and outreach to the member community.
(Public Company; SBUX; Retail industry)
January 2006 — July 2009 (3 years 7 months)
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Wild Alchemy is a collection of skilled independents
who wish to remain unrestrained. Far from
ordinary, these individuals have a wealth of
experience and backgrounds they combine to
solve our clients' problems in unique ways.
Manifesto:
It’s about momentum. The art of business and the business of art. Its about goose bumps and common threads and zigging when everyone else is trying to zag. It’s about finding your cultists and magnetic virtue and picking the low hanging fruit. It’s about focus and inspiration and simplicity. It’s about being both strategic and creative. It’s about creating a badge cultists are proud to wear. It’s about finding the areas of heat that evoke an inexplicably momentous reaction. It’s about knowing what sandbox you’re playing in and where to find gold. It’s about fame. Standing out in a crowd. Equity. Buzz. Ideas that sing. It’s about possibilities, not proof. It’s about getting everyone on that same proverbial page and inspiring them to play. It’s about great ideas. Ultimately, it’s about growth and creating something amazing.℠
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)
Student run creative agency.
Our Story - In 2005 brashCreative was born from the collaborative effort of a few ambitious advertising students. Since then, our agency has grown to include a dynamic flavor of creatives with diverse skills. Together we are passionate, dedicated, and capable. Couple that with the Art Institute’s wealth of resources and we are a force to be reckoned with. We work hard, take risks, and produce kick ass solutions!
www.artinstitutes.edu/portland/StudentLife/Brashcreative.aspx
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2007 — January 2008 (7 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BFT; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
August 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Bachelor of Fine Art in Advertising , Ad. Design, Adv. Art Direction, Guerilla Marketing, Persuasive Tech. and Consumer Behavior , 2005 — 2008
Brash Creative - Student run creative agency.
Our Story - In 2005 brashCreative was born from the collaborative effort of a few ambitious advertising students. Since then, our agency has grown to include a dynamic flavor of creatives with diverse skills. Together we are passionate, dedicated, and capable. Couple that with the Art Institute’s wealth of resources and we are a force to be reckoned with. We work hard, take risks, and produce kick ass solutions!
Collaborative Ingenuity - Student based work group dedicated to the enrichment of the creative process through peer collaboration.
Associate of Arts & Science , Business Management & Organization, Human Relations, Sociology , 2001 — 2004
Health and fitness, running, working out, fantasy fiction novels, music... everything from jazz to country, documentaries, Discovery Channel, history, people watching, long drives, conversations over coffee, art museums, traveling, interesting smells, tattoos, surfing various Ad sites, sunny weather, socializing with friends at the pub
- brashCreative
- Collaborative Ingenuity
- The Ethiopia Project
- AIGA
- Member of Who’s Who Among American High School Students
1998 - 2001
- Winner of Editor’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry.
Presented by The International Library of Poetry 1999
- Poem “My Dream” Published in Gifts Of The Soul 1999