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Experience:
Film Vandals; Independent Film
Director, Actor, Editor
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Founder: Started in 2013 by three CWU graduates, Film Vandals produces 3-4 short films a year.
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Director: Directed nearly two dozen short films with cast and crew of 25+ people.
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Accolades: Awarded Best Direction for Soul Pending (‘22) & Invaders from Beyond the Sponge (‘23).
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Actor: Experienced with a wide range of characters from comedy to drama, & various voice work.
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Accolades: Awarded Best Actor for Flight Risk (’21), nominated for best actor #Eat the Rich (‘21).
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Editor: 20 years of Adobe Premiere, 8 years of After Effects & Photoshop (8).
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Accolades: Best VFX, Best SFX, Best Credits.
Freelance
Video Editor & Motion Graphics Designer
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Video editing: Producer of commercials, digital ads, political ads, documentaries, narratives.
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Storytelling techniques: Finding and highlighting the stories found in every life moment.
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Adobe Products: 20 years of Adobe! Adobe Premiere (20), After Effects (8), Photoshop (8).
YMCA
Media Support Contract-1yr
2/2024-12/2024
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Media Consultation: Consulted content campaign strategies, resulting in a 40% increase in clicks.
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Media Database: Developed a video and photo library with over 6,000 assets for future use.
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Media Coverage: Documented 15 camps, highlighting moments w/ photography and videography.
Northwest Motorsport 2016-2023
Content Marketing Manager
10/2022-8/2023
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Creative Leadership: Led 5 direct reports for monthly content campaign creation, strategic planning.
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Campaign Implementation: Ideate, produce, and launched 24+ campaigns across tv, radio, social, email, paid ads, blog, Youtube, and traditional marketing channels, including 6 live events.
Content Marketing Project Supervisor
8/2021-12/2022
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Campaign Performance: Boosted campaign interaction by 300% while reducing spend by 75%.
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Content Strategy Development: 2022 Social Media Plan with supporting content calendar.
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Media Training: Trained 70+ staff members on utilizing digital media for their communications.
Video Producer
10/2016-8/2020
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Commercial Production: Ideated, produced, and edited 64+ sales commercials. More than a dozen evergreen campaigns, & holistic year-round brand awareness content support.
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Product Videos: 300+ unique videos; highlighting lifted trucks out in their natural habitat, increasing YouTube viewership by 4.5 million views in the first 12 months.
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Social Media Support: Paid and organic content, increasing the click through rate by up to 80%.
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Social Lead Generation: Executed a Truck Giveaway, increasing year-over-year leads by 10%.
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Education
Central Washington University
BA Communications specializing in Study Production
Software
Creative
Adobe Premier Pro (20+yrs), After Effects (8+yrs), Photoshop (8+yrs), Element 3D (6+yrs)
Marketing and Office Software
Word and PowerPoint (20+yrs), Excel (4+), Outlook, Canva, SharePoint, Teams, Google Suite, Google Analytics, Trello, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, Wix, WordPress, etc.
Skills
Video Production and Motion Graphics
As a one-man band or fully equipped and supported, easily ideating, planning, and producing the following forms of visual media: product highlight videos, training guides, social content, recorded interviews, podcasts, PPC/SEM assets, hero banners, commercials, support for internal communications, and more!
Advertising Campaign Strategy
Planning and support to acquire funding, advertise a product, or spread a message. Highly capable throughout pre-production, including data analysis, demographic research, audience building, asset creation, ad targeting, A/B testing, optimization, and reporting.
Digital Content Marketing
Develop and maintain engaging, entertaining, and retaining content across all digital channels and mediums. Leveraging storytelling, content funnels, calls-to-action, squeeze pages, content centric SEO tactics, attention grabbing themes and audience retaining tactics.
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Erik Showacy