Where I've worked

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Where I've worked *

Contact: Semaksemantics@gmail.com

Freelance | Sept β€˜23-Dec β€˜24

Senior/ACD Copywriter

Leveraging my skills to drive results for various clients, with the ability to flex from daily copywriting tasks to creative direction and strategy.

  • Shopify: Writing SEO-optimized long-form B2B blog articles.

Amazon, Special Projects | Sept β€˜23-Dec β€˜24 | Seattle

Content designer/writer

I was on a special projects team under Grand Challenge, Amazon's innovation incubator, where I was a full time copy lead on a team building an unreleased, FDA-regulated medical device with a hardware and software component.

Key highlights include:

  • Drove the development of a copy ecosystem to ensure consistent messaging and cross-functional alignment, including brand voice guidelines, editorial style guide, product terminology guide, and legal claims tracker.

  • Managed multiple projects, including developing, writing, proofreading, and editing all content within the app to meet tight software intake deadlines. I also met with the medical advisory board to ensure all content was expert-backed, credible, and correct.

Amazon, Halo | May β€˜21-July β€˜23 | Seattle

Senior digital writer

Copy lead on organic social, email campaigns, packaging, website, and digital for the fitness wearable Amazon Halo.

Key highlights include:

  • Managed and collaborated with an external agency partner to produce daily social content.

  • Improved the social creative process by developing a playbook based on social best practices and trends that reduced churn and allowed the team to create content more efficiently.

  • A/B tested social content to optimize for better reach and engagement, which resulted in exceeding our engagement rate benchmarks of 3% on Instagram and 1.5% on Facebook.

DNA | Nov β€˜19-Apr β€˜21 | Seattle

Senior copywriter

Wrote and produced TV, radio, social, and digital marketing campaigns for various clients.

Key highlights include:

  • Won Swerve Sweetener business with a campaign that ultimately increased brand visibility by 119% in key markets and optimized the production budget for a large library of assets.

  • Developed brand guidelines, social strategies, and production efficiencies with external production partners for various brands.

  • Clients: Taco Time, Golden 1 Credit Union, BECU, Seattle Pacific University, Swerve Sweetener, New Holland Brewing

Mekanism | Apr β€˜17-Nov β€˜19

Senior copywriter

Led development and production of creative storytelling in TV, radio, and social for various clients.

Key highlights include:

  • Launched a successful digital campaign for Charles Schwab that highlighted customer use cases of Schwab's retirement services. I helped source the customers, developed interview questions to shape the videos, and led end-to-end production of the campaign.

  • Successfully led the production of a video shoot to capture over 200 unique GIFs for the launch of an Alaska Airlines GIPHY page that currently has over 2 billion views.

  • Clients: Papa Murphy's, Charles Schwab, Dropbox, Dockers, MillerCoors, Sling TV

Skills

  • Copywriting

  • UX writing

  • Microcopy

  • Long-form writing

  • Content creation

  • Creative leadership

  • Comedy

  • Strategic thinking

  • Figuring it the heck out

Software

  • Figma

  • Jira

  • Notion

  • Confluence

  • Premiere Pro

  • AI tools (Chat GPT, etc)

School

MA in Copywriting | VCU Brandcenter | Sep 2011 - May 2013

BA in Advertising | Penn State University | Jan 2007 - Dec 2010

For my full resume going back to 2013, please go here.