Storm Williams

Current

• Contributor at DigitalPivot.com
• CEO / Creative Director at Nimbus Agency
• Founder & Exec. Director at Books For Soldiers

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Past

• Sr. Director Of Marketing at PriceArc Inc.
• VP / Creative Director at Kinesis Advertising
• CEO at DownSlam, Inc.

• Chairman Interactive Services at Ad Club of The Triad
• Co-founder, Creative Director at Mojo Zoo
• Interactivator at BURRIS
• Art Director at LVX
• Co-founder / President at North Carolina Independent Filmmakers Association
• Developer at AOL
• Community Manager at Hollywood Online
• Executive Producer at Immortal Pictures
• Senior Pharmacy Technician at Triad Home Therapeutics
• Producer / Writer / Director at Green Monk Studios
• Lab Tech III (Research) at Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• Biomedical Engineer at Carolina Medical Electronics

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Education

• Thomas Edison State College
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• High Point University

• Wake Forest University
• Surry Community College
• Surry Community College
• Surry Community College

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Recommended

21 people have recommended Storm

Connections

223 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Tweets

Storm Williams’s Summary

[LION - LinkedIn Open Networker]
[linkedin@numbusagency.com]

Strategist, Interactive Producer and Creative Director with an extensive marketing, advertising, PR and interactive background spanning 20 years.

I've been helping companies that can't focus on the future because they may have been consumed by the task of keeping the doors open one more day. These companies have lost the ability to think 30, 90 or 180 days out. I help them get to where they want to go and provide a path to out of the woods.

Past clients include...
MEDIA: Smithsonian Channel, The Golf Channel, Time Warner, iVillage, AOL, Hollywood.com

FINANCE: Bank of America, Wachovia

NON-PROFIT: YMCA, NC Zoo, BooksForSoldiers.com, Girl Scouts of America

FOOD: Krispy Kreme, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee

FASHION/TEXTILES: Burlington Industries, Lees Carpets, Bali, Platex, Champion, Hanes, Hanes Her Way, DKNY, Fila, L’eggs

TRANSPORTATION: Husqvarna, Volvo, US Air

SPORTS: Ingersol-Rand/Club Car, Golfweek, MacGregor, Pinehurst Resorts, SoftSpikes

CPG: RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston, Camel, Salem, Vantage

Storm Williams’s Specialties:

strategy, design, interactive, LinkedIn / Facebook / Twitter consultation, Second Life development, advertising, ad campaigns, logo design, web development, public relations, branding, marketing communications

Storm Williams’s Experience

• Contributor

  DigitalPivot.com

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  I blog about the shape and nuances of the interactive advertising landscape - social media, virtual worlds and the occasional post about old fashioned print ads.

• CEO / Creative Director

  Nimbus Agency

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  NWG is an marketing / advertising agency focused on strategy, branding and interactive. More recently, Nimbus has begun working with Bay Area companies to help them through the recession with advice and ideas on how to get out of this intact.

• Founder & Exec. Director

  Books For Soldiers

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  February 2003 — Present (6 years 10 months)

  BooksForSoldiers.com is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that sends books, DVDs, CDs and video games to US military personnel deployed outside of the United States via a network of over 40,000 volunteers.
  
  I founded the charity during the run up to the Iraq war and the charity has continued ever since. I stopped counting how much aid we sent once we crossed the 400 ton mark in six months.
  
  The initial library was built in the basement of the Baghdad International Airport and was the largest English language library in the Persian Gulf states.

• Sr. Director Of Marketing

  PriceArc Inc.

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2008 — November 2008 (5 months)

  PriceArc.com is a Bay Area start-up that is developing a new SaaS web application aimed at small business. I was hired to develop their marketing plan and assist in redesigning the product to be marketable.
  I defined and deployed all marketing initiatives and advertising campaigns for this web 2.0 start-up.

• VP / Creative Director

  Kinesis Advertising

  (Partnership; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 5 months)

  Kinesis experienced a disruptive management turnover in 2003. All client creative was lost and the studio was in turmoil. I was brought in from San Francisco to resurrect the agency. My first task was to ease the agency from daily crisis management to one of normalized agency operations.

• CEO

  DownSlam, Inc.

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1999 — 2006 (7 years )

  A music-sharing start-up that was ahead of its time. This idea was based on a novel music licensure that was independent of ASCAP and BMI music licensing methods. This allowed for the sharing and legal downloading of music while give the musician, not the studio a majority of the profits.

• Chairman Interactive Services

  Ad Club of The Triad

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  Board member for the Ad Club of the Triad, the AAF recognized club servicing the Greensboro, High Point, Winston Salem area of North Carolina. I handled all interactive communications of this 501(c)(3) charity including banner ads, email marketing, web site management and digital ADDY Award support.

• Co-founder, Creative Director

  Mojo Zoo

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  July 2001 — August 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  The philosophy of Mojo Zoo was to design ad, brand and marketing messages by using basic storytelling methods that have not changed since the first humanoid painted horses on rocks. The best ads are the ones that tell a story – allows the consumer to see how the brand fits in their life. Advertising without a story is just a spec sheet. Running around the neighborhood spray painting water buffalo and woolly mammoths on alley walls was just icing on the cake.

• Interactivator

  BURRIS

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  The position of Interactivator can be best described as an Interactive Creative Director in boring, mundane, hyper-corporate language. Directed the agency's interactive projects and consulted on strategy, broadcast, print and animation for all clients. Damn fine place to work.

• Art Director

  LVX

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 1993 — February 1999 (6 years 2 months)

  LVX was a co-op of art directors that serviced local ad agencies and Fortune 500 companies. While there, I worked on a wide range of brands dealing with graphic design, print, web and interactive projects. During the early 90’s, I started playing with this thing called the “internet” and before I knew what was happening, I was snatched up by the advertising industry who was just catching on. I had NOTHING to do with the development of the pop-up ad. I swear. Clients included Sara Lee, Bali, Hillshire Farm, Krispy Kreme, First Union National Bank, Jimmy Dean, Platex, Champion, Hanes, Winston, Hanes Her Way, Wachovia, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, DKNY, Fila, L’eggs, Camel, Salem, Vantage, US Air

• Co-founder / President

  North Carolina Independent Filmmakers Association

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  September 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 4 months)

  NCIFA was a state-wide non-profit association that aimed at building the North Carolina film industry by giving more opportunities to local filmmakers to tell their story.

• Developer

  AOL

  (Public Company; TWX; Internet industry)

  1992 — 1997 (5 years )

  Contract developer for AOL, developing new discussion areas, creating and seeding new community forums, developing community branding and advertising, promoting chat areas, and managing community relations for a number of keywords, mostly dealing with entertainment and charities.

• Community Manager

  Hollywood Online

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Produced and maintained the forum areas of AOL's Keyword "Hollywood." Managed two separate communities - the consumers of motion pictures and the filmmakers themselves. Developed, hosted and monitored the Independent Filmmakers Forum, a online forum devoted to industry professionals. I also hosted the weekly Independent Filmmakers Chat. Created downloadable interactive press kits of upcoming films that included production shots, video games and various pieces of PR material. Hollywood Online later moved off of AOL to become Hollywood.com and was later acquired by Time Warner.

• Executive Producer

  Immortal Pictures

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

  As an executive producer for any independent film, you wear a lot of hats. For this production I was scouting locations, interviewing and hiring crew, managing and producing all the special f/x and special f/x props (gallons of stage blood), coordinating actors, bands and crew during production, and made sure everyone was fed and well caffeinated. And when it is 3am and you are doing a roof scene in the middle of Durham, NC with red gels and the fire department shows up and wants to shut the production down - you donate $500 to the Fireman's Assoc and then hire them to hose down the street for a scene the following week. Yes, film production requires mob skills.

• Senior Pharmacy Technician

  Triad Home Therapeutics

  (Pharmaceuticals industry)

  February 1990 — June 1993 (3 years 5 months)

  As a Certified Pharmaceutical Technician I delivered compounded admixtures for Pain Control, TPN, Chemotherapy and Antibiotics per Pharmacy Manager's daily schedule, maintained clean room standards, followed mixing safety procedures and managed medical device inventory that included IV poles, pumps, portable pumps, disposables and drug inventories. Maintained documentation and procedures for Joint Commission and FDA.

• Producer / Writer / Director

  Green Monk Studios

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  February 1987 — January 1993 (6 years )

  Green Monk was the largest special effects studio in North Carolina’s $3 billion film industry and remained so until the state’s film industry collapsed and all production moved to Canada. This is where I began my career path for advertising. I came up with marketing campaigns, brand strategies, PR and ad campaigns for independent motion pictures. After the industry moved to Canada, I moved to advertising full time. The same storytelling skills I acquired in filmmaking, transferred easily to advertising and marketing. And I haven’t made an exploding zombie head since.

• Lab Tech III (Research)

  Wake Forest University School of Medicine

  (Higher Education industry)

  October 1986 — February 1990 (3 years 5 months)

  Performed research with the Departments of Anesthesiology and Neurology. Most research revolved around brain studies using the Xenon Clearance Method, measuring brain blood flow effects in dyslexic patients, examining the cause of stroke in hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass surgery using trasncranial doppler (MCA measurement) and other lab research and engineering duties. Certified as a radio-pharmaceutical technician and published a paper in the NC Journal Of Neuroscience, "Middle Cerebral Artery Blood Flow Velocity During Hypothermic Cardiopulmonary Bypass With Transcranial Doppler Sonography"

• Biomedical Engineer

  Carolina Medical Electronics

  (Medical Devices industry)

  August 1984 — October 1986 (2 years 3 months)

  CME was a leader in blood flow monitoring equipment. I was involved in a broad range of QA/QC procedure development, product testing, and new product design. My specific projects include the CME-701 Digital Blood Flow Meter and the Xenon-133 Brain Blood Flow Monitor.

Storm Williams’s Education

• Thomas Edison State College

  Bachelor Of Arts , Communication , 2009 — 2009

  Collecting all my transcripts into one place for distance learning.

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  Continuing Education , Communication , 1991 — 1991

• High Point University

  Continuing Education , Design , 1989 — 1989

• Wake Forest University

  Continuing Education , Economics , 1987 — 1988

• Surry Community College

  AAS , Computer Engineering , 1981 — 1984

• Surry Community College

  AAS , Electronics Engineering , 1981 — 1984

• Surry Community College

  AS , General Science , 1981 — 1984

Additional Information

Storm Williams’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio
• My Tweets

Storm Williams’s Interests:

vintage European automobiles, cinema, animation, hiking, photography, travel

Storm Williams’s Groups:

American Advertising Federation, Cousteau Society, EAA, Vintage Triumph Register, Facebook, Ad Club of the Triad, 48 Hour Film Festival

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Obama for America
•    The Media Group - Production, Exhibition, Broadcast and 3D
•    Inbound Marketers - For Marketing Professionals
•    Advertising Professional
•    A Golf & Business Networking Group
•    Thomas Edison State College
•    SFBIG
•    High Point University Alumni
•    Craigslist Group
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    American Advertising Federation (AAF)
•    The-Green-Group.com
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    Starbucks' Enthusiasts
•    Animation, Media & Entertainment
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    World of Warcraft & Warcraft Player Group
•    Filmmakers
•    Game Industry PR and Marketing
•    Wake Forest University Alumni
•    Advertising Professionals
•    Fireworks Users
•    Mobile Marketing & Advertising
•    Communication Arts
•    Professional Second Lifers
•    MUBAC - Mac Users Business and Creative Group
•    Adobe Software Users
•    Animation Army
•    DreamDesigners
•    48 Hour Film Project
•    CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
•    Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art - MoCCA
•    Comic Book Business for Creators and Creations
•    Creative Intensive Network - For All Advertising Creatives
•    UNCG Greensboro Alumni
•    Flash Freelancers
•    The Daily KosNetworking Group

Storm Williams’s Honors:

Best Webcomic FInalist, 2008 Weblog Awards, 2008

Best Charity Island, Second Life Ad Club, 2008

Winner “Blog Florida Blue Logo Contest” Florida Democratic Party, 2007

Winner “John Patterson PageTurner Award” for Promoting Literacy 2006

Winner “Make Your Mark” short film prize from SXSW Film Festival, 2003

ADDY Collateral Interactive - "Your Independence" Independence Golf Club, 2002

ADDY Industry Self-Promotion Interactive - "Up Close" BURRIS.com, 2001

MetaCreations - Excellence in 3D Bryce Art, March 1995

AOL - Design Artist of the Month 5/95, 9/95, 4/96

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