Project Manager

Neal Adams

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Marketing, Graphic Design and Technical Writing

Ability to communicate easily and interact effectively with customers, vendors and employees. Skilled in unifying strategy requirements of executive, sales, and engineering departments into a concise, consistent message.

Nine years marketing experience primarily for oil & gas, chemical, energy and process industries. Over twenty

years experience designing and writing product sales brochures, specification sheets and support documents. Experienced in organizing, scheduling, recording and managing all phases of multiple projects.

Results

Helped Bray Controls increase sales by over 20% per year on average for 20 years.

Coordinated international marketing materials for Bray’s expansion from local start-up to worldwide locations.

Customers have credited Bray’s literature as being the best in the industry.

Instrumental in helping Flow-Tek Inc. to become profitable within 2 years

Assisted Flow-Tek Inc. increase sales by an average of 9% per year for 10 years.

Partial Client List: Bray Controls, Flow-Tek Inc., Ultraflo Corporation, Ritepro, Igloo Products Corp., Destec Energy, Butterworth, ExxonMobil, Lockheed Corporation, Setpoint, Inc., and Methodist Hospital

Experience

Neal Adams Design – Marketing, Graphic Design and Technical Writing 10/02 – Present Houston, TX

Applewhite/Adams Design, Owner/Principal 9/85 – 10/02 Houston, TX

Performance

• Teamed with executive and senior management to define and plan marketing goals

• Analyzed clients’ current sales structure and markets, developed and implemented strategies to diversify customer base, expand market share and increase sales

• Determined specific target audience and assessed audience characteristics

• Developed and edited content of internal and external technical documents

• Wrote, designed and illustrated marketing material in language and graphics the audience could easily understand

• Performed all phases of graphic design including design, illustration, art direction, photography direction, photo retouching and project coordination and production

Responsibilities

• Managed marketing strategies for new product introductions per client requirements

• Conducted meetings with executive, engineering and sales departments to plan, prepare and produce new product literature and current product revisions

• Interviewed subject matter experts and researched technical background materials

• Designed and coordinated the packaging, shipment and installation of tradeshow booths at national conventions

• Coordinated distribution and tracked results of news releases, direct marketing and advertising

• Maintained consistency of client message and brand throughout print and electronic media

• Performed ownership responsibilities including budgeting, estimating, scheduling, inventory, supplier coordination and supervision of contract workers

Computer Skills

Proficient: Windows 7 Operating System, Mac OSX Operating System, Microsoft Office 2007 (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook), Adobe Creative Suite 4 (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat), QuarkXPress

Education

University of Texas at Austin - Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors

Fine Art

Exhibited in national and international competitions in New York, Santa Fe, Houston and other Texas cities

Lecture Presentations to the American Society for Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division, as guest artist in 1999, 2002

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