PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Content & Copy Writer / Creative Director / Fundraising & Marketing Strategist / Ad Agency C-Suite Experience
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
Associate Creative Director, TrueSense Marketing 2/20 – 9/21
Warrendale, PA/Chicago, IL
- Clients include: CARE, Feed The Children, Bethesda/AbleLight, Help Heal Veterans, Arizona State University Foundation
Creative Director/Content Writer, Orbis Digital Marketing 2015 – 2020
Chicago, IL
- Wrote and directed branding, marketing, lead-generation, conversion and e-commerce websites and landing pages.
- Contributed to the creation of Hypersite, a model-disrupting process for capturing and producing digital content.
- Clients included regional and local businesses.
Creative Director/Writer, Richard DeVeau Creative 2015 – 2020
Chicago, IL
- On retainer with NNE Marketing (Boston) for four years to write and direct fundraising campaigns for: Foundation Fighting Blindness, Special Olympics, American Diabetes Association, American Lung Association, and ALS Association. Contributed to new business RFPs.
- Freelance writing and creative direction projects for:
o Pursuant
o Nexus Direct
o Thompson Habib Denison
o Lautman Maska Neill & Company
o Meyer Partners
Creative Director, RobbinsKersten Direct 2012 – 2015
Boston, MA/Dallas, TX/Chicago, IL
- Clients included: Special Olympics, Alzheimer’s Disease Research, American Diabetes Association, Waterkeeper Alliance, Doctors of the World, St. Francis House, Lighthouse International, National Glaucoma Research, National Parkinson Foundation and Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Creative Director/Writer/Principal, Wood, Clay & Stone 2009 -2012
Chicago, IL
- Clients included: Habitat for Humanity, American Lung Association, Salvation Army, WNET Channel 13, American Express, Ducati Motorcycles, Tour Edge Golf, Ronald McDonald House, and Jane Goodall Institute.
Executive Creative Director, Meyer Partners 2007 – 2009
Chicago, IL
- Clients included: Bible League, Wheat Ridge Ministries, Concordia University, United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
Creative Director, Douglas Shaw & Associates 2005 – 2007
Chicago, IL
- Clients included: Joni & Friends, Wycliffe Associates, Back to God Hour, Moody Church Media, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Gospel Rescue Missions (14)
Creative Director, Brickmill Marketing Services 2003 – 2005
Nashua, NH
- Clients included national and international nonprofit organizations and charities.
Associate Creative Director/Copy, Directech/eMerge 2002 – 2003
Burlington, MA
- Digital and direct response creative direction and copy writing for national telecommunications, technology, and consumer services clients at this digital/direct marketing/advertising agency.
Senior Copy Writer, Holland Mark Edmund Ingalls 2000–2002
Boston, MA
- Concepts and copy for a variety of national consumer goods and services brands, including Red Lobster, Miller Brewing, TJ Maxx, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco, Polaroid, Student.com, and Marriott Hotels at Boston’s largest advertising agency.
Director, Website Development, FitForAll.com 1998 - 2000
Boston, MA
- Branding, marketing, content strategies and content writing for this health and fitness web start-up.
EDUCATION:
Marketing Major, Bentley University
Certificate, Fundraising, Indiana University
RELATEDEXPERIENCE:
Visual Artist, Painter, www.richarddeveauart.com.
- Solo and group exhibitions and representation with art gallery in Chicago.
—The 100 Nations Campaign (www.100nations.org)