Where I've worked
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Where I've worked *
Contact: Semaksemantics@gmail.com
Freelance | Sept β23-Dec β24
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 β23-Dec β24 | 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 β21-July β23 | 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 β19-Apr β21 | 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 β17-Nov β19
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