Stashrun

Creator Growth Lead

Creators Guild of America

The Creators Guild of America is a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization that is dedicated to protecting and promoting the creative and financial interests of digital creators.

Co-Chair, Benefits

Creator consultant for many popular YouTube forward creator businesses. DM or email me if you need help in the Creator Economy! Services include:
- Content Strategy
- Content Creation
- Organic + Paid Audience Growth

Current creators I work with:
Watchfinder and Co. - www.youtube.com/@watchfinder
Marty Schwartz - www.youtube.com/@MartyMusic

Creator Consultant

Linktree

- Identify and reach out to trending and macro digital creators, onboarding them to Linktree’s platform
- Educate creators and their teams on the best practices regarding Linktree to aid social growth, revenue generation, and data collection
- Retain and manage creator relationships by providing ongoing support and branded campaign opportunities
- Serve as in-house creator economy expert, educating internal stakeholders about creator-related business opportunities and learnings

Creator Lead

Made In Network

- Managed prominent YouTube creators for both on and off platform opportunities. Creators of note included: Marty Music, Joshua Weissman, CinemaSins, Binging with Babish and Dead Meat
- Managed a team of eight direct reports with their own roster of managed YouTube creators
- Increased total revenue for clients by 100% from 2019 to 2020 (AdSense, brand partnerships, and off platform deals)

Strategy Director

- Led a team of eleven creatives specializing in video, photography, animation, and script writing
- Oversaw all creative direction and output for both YouTube creators and brand clients
- Generated and presented creative concepts for clients that met strategic and budgetary goals

Production Director

24HR Records

24HR Records is a web series that hand picks a team of musicians, locks them in a studio, and asks them to write and record three complete songs in twenty-four hours. The artists we select have never met until they walk in the door, sharing nothing but a desire to push their creative limits farther than they ever thought possible. Each episode is a collision of talent, stress, and creative freedom without any rules or guidelines save a time constraint. 24HR Records has set out to discover new avenues for artists to collaborate and captures their creative process on record, photograph, and film.

As a Creator/Producer, I curated the artists of each filming, oversaw all creative aspects of episodes (music, film, photo), and developed strategic release partnerships with media outlets. To date, 24HR Records has been featured in places such as HypeBot, American Songwriter, Band of the Day App, NoiseTrade, and Best Web Series Award Winner - Nashville Film Festival 2015.

Creator/Producer

Brentwood United Methodist Church

Front of House Audio Engineer

Producer/Engineer

Selected Projects - Music Producer/Audio Engineer

Ocean Way Nashville Studios

Staff Engineer

Passionately working in the creator economy for nearly a decade. Great creators have the most authentic and direct relationship with their fans and I get excited to support creators in all aspects of their careers including digital strategy, growing their business, and creating great content!

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