Heather Morgan

Current

Flight Instructor at Chief Penguin Studios

Past

Chief Visionary, Partner at LaunchPad Interactive
President, Creative Director at Canvas Interactive, Inc.
Chief Creative Snail, Co-Founder at Snailers Inc.

Art Director at Omnicom
Information Architect at Global Commerce Systems
Interface Designer at Digital Lagoon
Advertising Account Executive at University Daily Kansan

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Education

Universität Stuttgart
University of Kansas
Internationales Kultur Institut

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Heather Morgan’s Summary

With over 13 years of interactive design & traditional marketing experience, I love helping companies find new ways to communicate with their target audiences. I currently teach penguins to fly. See "Chief Penguin Studios" below for more information on that.

Brand Experience Projects (B-to-B and B-to-C):
Sprint, Eli Lilly, Pharmion, Pharmaca, AMC Theatres, Hostess, GARMIN, Wells Fargo, Providian, Commerce Bank, GE Capital, University of Colorado, Service Magic, InQuira, RaZz'em, klipp, Greenfield Architects, Zolo Technologies, RMH Group, Martin/Martin, Denver Concierge, Mountain Pride Connections and many other lovely businesses.

Heather Morgan’s Specialties:

Breakthrough Concepting, Selling and Delivering Big Integrated Ideas, Creative Direction, User Interface Design, iPhone Application Design/Planning, Website Design and Development, Flash/Multimedia, QA Testing, Customer Service, Copywriting/Copyediting.

Heather Morgan’s Experience

Flight Instructor

Chief Penguin Studios

(Graphic Design industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

Want to make a penguin fly? Walk tall and carry a big jetpack! Fill that jetpack with credible research, fantastic ideas, intuition and traditional advertising. Add web, email, social and mobile understanding. Watch what happens when all of those elements fuel each other, and that penguin soars above the other five million penguins in the colony.

As a seasoned creative director, designer and developer, I help companies refuel their jetpacks with the right solution mix. I’m currently available to discuss contract or full-time opportunities including creative direction, brand transformation, experience design/development and project management.
Chief Visionary, Partner

LaunchPad Interactive

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years)

Canvas Interactive (founded 1999) merged with LaunchPad Sales & Marketing to form LaunchPad Interactive LLC. With my co-pilot, SuzAnn Brown, we built a super-powered team of incredible UI designers, animators and developers who worked hard to make a positive difference with every client and project. Learn more at www.launchpadinteract.com, and contact this talented company if you need some brilliant marketing assistance.
President, Creative Director

Canvas Interactive, Inc.

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1999 — 2006 (7 years)

Canvas Interactive was founded in 1999 to help businesses with their online strategy, design and development. Serving the architectural, engineering, healthcare and financial industries for over seven years, we learned a great deal about combining unexpected marketing with innovative technology to achieve excellent results. From website redesigns to brand development, sales tools and product rollouts, we delivered messaging that worked.
Chief Creative Snail, Co-Founder

Snailers Inc.

(Printing industry)

2001 — 2005 (4 years)

Co-Founded Snailers.com, an online application that helped people stay in touch with the most important people in their lives. Snailers.com provided an easy way for anyone to create and send printed postcards to their personal and business networks. Customers could upload a picture, write a headline and personalized message, upload a mailing list, and choose a mailing date. Postcards were automatically printed and sent. Staying in touch had never been so easy.
Art Director

Omnicom

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)

Interactive Art Director with IQ Interactive, a division of The Integer Group, owned by Omnicom. Designed user-friendly websites and applications for high tech start up firms such as Wisen.com (Service Magic), and many others. Developed internal process documentation to help put Integer on the map for high-end software development and website design.
Information Architect

Global Commerce Systems

(Internet industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)

Created use-case scenarios and interfaces for high-end Internet applications and extranets. Led small creative team in innovative form design and validation. Programmed HTML, Flash and JavaScript code. Collaborated with network engineers, Java developers and top level management to bring more creativity and UI innovation to every project. Clients included Sprint, Wells Fargo, Providian, TSYS.
Interface Designer

Digital Lagoon

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)

Involved in startup days of the company. We created some amazing applications, CD-ROMs and Flash games for clients such as AMC Theatres, Hostess, GARMIN, Snorkel USA and more. We launched the original interactive e-cards for Planet Twinkie, and GARMIN's pilot website. Working with Illustra and SQL, we were one of the first companies to offer a complete content management solution to Fortune 500 companies. It rolled out in 1996. Ah, those were fun days!
Advertising Account Executive

University Daily Kansan

(Educational Institution; Newspapers industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Promoted University Daily Kansan advertising services to the Lawrence, KS small business community. Assisted over 30 small businesses with advertising strategy, brand message, advertising design and promotional ideas. Managed advertising clients from initial meeting to final advertising placement and print. Received awards for Top Team Player and Most Innovative Sales Approach.

Heather Morgan’s Education

Universität Stuttgart

Architektur, Werbung, International Marketing 1994 — 1995
University of Kansas

BSJ , Architecture, Journalism, Advertising, Graphic Design , 1990 — 1995

William Allen White School of Journalism, Ewart Memorial Traveling Scholarship - awarded for one year of architectural theory and international marketing study in Stuttgart, Germany.

Activities and Societies:

Habitat for Humanity, Colorado Homeless Coalition, University Daily Kansan
Internationales Kultur Institut

German 1994 — 1994

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Heather Morgan’s Groups:

Denver Boulder New Tech Meetup, Longmont Humane Society Volunteer, Get Off Your Lily Meetup, Refresh Denver, Rocky Mountain Multimedia Users Group, Naturally Boulder, Boulder Green Building Guild