Wayne State College

Creative Manager

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

- Grow and lead a team of 5 graphic design and photo/video professionals, supporting marketing activities for more than a dozen different brands
-  Define and establish the creative team’s relationships with brand partners and external vendors
-  Identified and integrated a digital asset management tool with existing project management software, supporting an efficient content creation workflow and ticketing system. This makes creative work easily accessible by those who need it and creates a single source of truth throughout the organization
-  Cultivate an environment where creatives spend more time being creative and less time bogged down with administrative activities
-  Concept, script, storyboard and produce branded video and photo content in line with marketing campaign goals
-  Provide surge support in public relations, media relations, copywriting, employee communications and crisis communications

City+Ventures

Love Drunk is a live performance music video project I created in 2010 and continue to direct. The organization is a volunteer-based collaborative effort, consisting of a revolving crew of audio, video and photography hobbyists and professionals.

Together, we have travelled the country creating more than 140 live, one-take music videos of artists performing in locations they typically do not perform – thrift stores, rooftops, hot air balloons, mayoral offices, etc.

We do all this for free for the purpose of lifting up independent musicians while developing video production professionals in the process.

Love Drunk Studio

Founder/Director

- Strategic communications advisor working regularly with C-suite executives on special projects that build and maintain UP’s reputation
-  Adept at navigating through a rapidly changing environment, working to build understanding and consensus while advocating for effective and compelling communications
-  Develop communications and marketing plans and write articles that enhance employee engagement and drive key initiatives
-  Direct regional and national brand, recruiting and safety campaigns with internal resources and external creative agencies
-  Recommended and implemented new media strategy that led to more than $300,000 in savings during 2020 alone
-  Achieve departmental goals through video creation, management of company studio, and multi-camera live streaming
-  Manage interns, vendors and project teams for live events, large meetings and special projects

Union Pacific Railroad

Communications Manager

- Managed content and story calendar for daily internal news site
-  Developed standards for video pre and post-production that aligned with
company brand, safety and legal guidelines
-  Produced video and photo content from concept through delivery
-  Collaborated with teammates and internal stakeholders in creating the
company’s social media channels, messaging and voice
-  Wrote press releases during nuclear power plant emergencies

Omaha Public Power District

Digital Media Coordinator

- Managed content and design of employee magazine
-  Identify, articulate and develop effective narratives around CEO thought leadership and employee engagement storytelling
-  Created repeatable ideation, building into the content strategy a consistent 	pipeline of content
-  Managed and edited corporate sustainability report
-  Coordinated team proofreading process and continuous improvement efforts
-  Wrote articles for daily internal news site

Magazine Editor

- Wrote and edited articles for <a href="http://wowt.com">wowt.com</a>
-  Edited video and created graphics to support articles and drive viewership
-  Edited TV scripts for web and built into articles using HTML

WOWT

Media Publisher

- Managed coverage of all sports teams at 5 area high schools
-  Created and implemented a strategy to include results for each game, match or competion for 30+ high schools
-  Researched and reported on crime, county and district court cases, including murders, drug cases and your occasional pancake feed
-  Built relationships with coaches, school administrators and community leaders, including the county attorney and county sheriff

The Journal

Sports Editor/Crime Reporter

- Gathered, wrote and delivered news stories on air
-  Shot and edited VO’s, VO-SOTS and packages
-  Created bumps and teasers as directed by producers

Django Greenblatt-Seay

Django Greenblatt-Seay