Boe Gatiss
Senior Copywriter, Editor, Content Manager

Phone: 415.377.4465
1284 Dolores St. #1
San Francisco, CA 94110
boeboe@propellent.com	


VIRTUES EMBRACED
Teamwork, flexibility, detail- and results-orientation, self-motivation, timeliness, and exemplary quality.


WORK EXPERIENCE

Founder/Creative Director, Writer/Editor
Propellent - www.propellent.com
January 1998 - present
- Write and edit marketing, sales and branding materials for a wide variety of clients, including corporations such as Visa, Yahoo!, WaMu, Digidesign, Wyeth/Amgen, SGI, ESPN, Sears, HP, Blockbuster, PetSmart, DEMO, and The Security Standard, and agencies including Avenue A/Razorfish, the Kessler Group, Ogilvy One, Modem Media, Gyro International, and Decision Counsel
- Provide content management services for a number of small business websites
- Manage small teams of writers, researchers, designers, and developers as needed to complete projects on time, on budget, and in accordance with clients' goals
- Marketing consulting/contractual services for small to large enterprises: content creation and management, web design, synergy analyses, etc.

Marketing Writer/Editor
Digidesign - www.digidesign.com
July 2001 - October 2004
- Created and promptly delivered the majority of Digidesign's marketing-related copy in in-house agency environment:  web copy, ad copy, brochures, sales collateral, feature magazine articles, promotional email, newsletters, datasheets, news items, packaging, white papers, etc.
- Established and maintained highly effective, positive working relationships with departmental liaisons throughout the company
- Migrated technical information to sales and marketing collateral suitable for external and/or internal consumption
- Managed a particularly heavy work load while introducing and preserving high standards of quality and improving company and product perception within the industry
- Developed and maintained style manuals and document-organization standards

Copywriter, Content Manager, Webmaster
SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics) - www.sgi.com
April 1994 - April 1999
- Created copy and graphical content and managed production for Developer Program intra- and extranet websites and collateral
- Interfaced frequently with other departments to develop and deliver concise web-based solutions; created copy for the same
- Managed research and production teams of 5-15 contractors
- Migrated technical information to marketing collateral suitable for internal and/or external consumption
- Wrote major product/project proposals, usability studies, and info architecture analyses
- Developed and managed positive, highly functional relationships with external vendors (programmers, graphic artists, etc.)


EDUCATION
- University of California, Davis (1984-86) - Rhetoric, Religious Studies
- De Anza College (1986-88) - Associate of Arts degree, Liberal Arts
- Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (1988-91) - English Lit, Phys Ed


TECHNOLOGIES
- Productivity software: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint
- Web: HTML, Dreamweaver, content management systems, some CSS and JavaScript
- Graphic Design: PhotoShop, Illustrator, some Flash
- Music: Pro Tools, Live, Reason
- Platforms: Macintosh and Windows


THE REST OF LIFE
- Founder, Circus Metropolus (www.circusmetropolus.com) - Indie circus troupe, event production, and curating
- The klown Boenobo (www.boenobo.com) - Performance artist, musician
- Band leader/singer/songwriter,  GOOFERMAN (www.gooferman.com)
- Creative director/founder , Red Nose District and GOOFERVILLE (www.gooferville.org) - Principal Burning Man performance camps
- Heavy into the San Francisco indie circus, indie music and underground scenes
- Inventor, omnivore, adventurer 


ONLINE PORTFOLIOS
Copy/editing: www.propellent.com/portfolio.html
Web/graphic design: www.propellent.com/design.html


REFERENCES READILY AVAILABLE