My Resume

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McCall Realty (2001 – present)
Real Estate sales and services (licensed in California and Nevada)

  • Certified Residential Specialist (CRS)
  • Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR)
  • Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist (CLHMS)
  • Million Dollar Guild
  • Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES)
  • ePro

Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog (2006 – present)
Owner, producer and writer online South Lake Tahoe real estate information resource

Richard Bolen & Associates (1992 – present)
Marketing Consultant, Advertising and Graphic Design Services

Prior Traditional Business Clients:

BioAnalogics Inc. (1986 – 1996)
Sr. V.P. Marketing, Co-Founder, Advertising/Mktg. Agency & Consultant (after 1992)

  • Co-founder of Company and writer of original business plan.
  • Worked directly with CEO leading company from start-up to successful IPO on NASDAQ ($4.5 million).
  • Worked directly with CEO to raise additional $7 million for company.
  • 1995-1996 Direct mail campaign cut selling costs in half and doubled company sales.
  • Responsible for annual marketing budget.
  • Generated approx. 150,000+ national leads from 2 million+ pieces direct mail.
  • Responsible for national product and financial public relations campaigns.
  • Responsible for 100+ annual trade shows.
  • Produced quarterly two-week long sales training seminars.
  • Responsible for national ad campaigns to recruit sales personnel, plus initial screening of all sales applicants.Creative, design, copy and production of all marketing and sales materials, including:
    space ads, direct mail, POP displays, one sheets, brochures, newsletters, sales tools, training manuals, training videos and product packaging.
  • Design and creative development assistance with company's four high-tech preventive medicine products.

radiofreevirgin.com (2000 – 2001)
Programming and Marketing Consultant.

  • Assist General Manager in developing national partnerships, strategic marketing alliances and worldwide content programming.
  • Design and production Blues Channel advertising and collateral.
  • Creation and development of blues channel for worldwide internet radio station.
  • Responsible for introduction of blues channel prototype to other prospective clients.

National Music Museum Alliance
Co-Chair Partnership & Marketing Committee, Charter Member.

  •  Develop partnership and strategic marketing opportunities for National Alliance of Music Museums.
  • Alliance members are 30+ Museums in the United States, including The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, The Experience Music Project, The Smithsonian, The Country Music Hall of Fame Museum and The Georgia Music Hall of Fame Museum.

Delta Blues Museum (1997 – 1999)
Director of Marketing and Development

  • Develop programming and infrastructure essential to seek funds for a new permanent collection for the Museum.
  • Developed education partnerships and key strategic relationships with The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, The Georgia Hall of Fame Museum, The Experience Music Project, The Southern Poverty Law Center, The Fender Museum of Music and the Arts, Coahoma Community College, Delta State university, The University of Mississippi and 3 local school systems.
  • Developed partnership with The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum and The Muddy Waters Estate to include the Museum in the national American Masters of Music Award.
  • Managed national public relations effort with The Mitch Snyder Organization based in Los Angeles (gained interest in their clients music clients, such as The Dave Mathews Band to support the Museum¹s efforts).
  • Curated and/or developed 1 permanent exhibit and 5 travelling exhibits, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame produced Muddy Waters exhibit (fall of 2000).
  • Developed relationship with The Travel Channel to produce cable television segment about the Museum to be broadcast into 31 million American homes.
  • Developed relationship and content programming for the Museum to be broadcast worldwide to the online audience of radiofreevirgin.com.

RH Group Inc. (1992 – 1994)
Sr. V.P. Marketing, Editor, Creative Director, Director Production

  • Created marketing campaign netting approx. $1.6 million in advertising sales.
  • Creative, design, copy and production for 860-page entertainment industry directory.
  • Directed staff of ten freelance art directors, production and traffic personnel.
  • Creative, design, copy and production of all marketing and sales collateral.
  • Largest digital print book of its time.
     

Prior Entertainment & Media Industry Clients:

Directions Magazine (Guam), Original Film, International Television Trading Corp., Granite Financial Services, ITC Productions, Buena
Vista Television, Holland America Line, Harveys Resort Hotel/Casino, Paramount Pictures, Anita Mann Productions, BioAnalogics Inc., ProNatal Inc., Sorbus Asset Strategies, S.A., Jerry Cowart Design Associates, Exceed Motivations.

Rockers Film Corporation:
Production Consultant for "Rockers", a feature motion picture:

  • Worked with Producer to raise $300K in post-production funds.
  • Worked with President of Rolling Stones Records to set up national record deal and international distribution and record deal (New Yorker Films, Mango Records, a division of Island Records).
  • Negotiated all film and soundtrack performance and synchronizatio licenses (26 songs).
  • Set-up all film festival openings, including San Francisco Film Festival, Filmex and Cannes.
  • Worked with The Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, among many other recording artists to finish project.

Music Projects:

  • Produced and Managed "Gypsee Eyes,"  a Rock and Roll band in Austin, Texas (artists included members of Stevie Ray Vaughan¹s Triple Threat Review, Cracker Jack, Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne).
  • Managed "Joker Moon," a band of 3 singer-songwriters in Austin, Texas (negotiated deal with Universal Studios to record the title song of feature motion picture, "The Other Side of the Mountain II.")
  • Music industry experience in live concert production and studio recording (concerts in Austin, Dallas and Clarksdale, Mississippi. studio recording in Austin, Texas, Lake Tahoe and Los Angeles).

Writing Projects: (while Mktg. Dir. for Anita Mann Producions)

  • Writer “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live” live international production tour.
  • Writer (dialogue and transitions) for six Holland America Line live production shows.
  • Writer of motion picture treatment and screenplay about inner-city gangs that was optioned by International Creative Management (ICM).
  • Writer & designer of “A Blast From The Past,” a comic book and promotion collateral based on live production show for Harveys Resort / Casino.

Some Credits, Special Skills and Awards:

  • Winner of 1992 Lu Lu Award for Excellence in Advertising Design, for corporate communication by Los Angeles Advertising Women (w/ Jerry Cowart designers).
  • Grantwriting certificate from The Center for Nonprofit Management.

High Tech Background and Training:
Extensive continuing education courses at American Film Institute in graphic design, multi-media/web development, screenwriting and story development courses.
  
Professional skills:

  • MacIntosh and PCgraphic design and multi-media skills.
  • Microsoft Office: Animated Power Point and Excel.
  • Presentation applications, including instruction classes and professional services in: Quark Express, Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Dreamweaver, and Final Cut Express.

 

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