Jeremy wishes that he were an Okie from Muskogee.
Because, as you know, it is the place where even squares can have a ball.
Despite this, Jeremy does originally hail from Hennessey, OK, a very small town named after a poor Irish bastard who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
After a prolonged stint as a professional student at Oklahoma State University that spanned such varied majors as Music Education, Broadcast Journalism, Computer Science and Philosophy, Jeremy decided that maybe it was time to join the world of productive adults.
The wide variety of majors did happen to serve him well. Aside from his brief stints as a municipal pool lifeguard or fence builder for a pork farming corporation, Jeremy has spent his time as a broadcast engineer, a computer/network technician, a freelance web designer and developer and a director/producer at a low-power UHF station before faking up a portfolio of work and nosing his way into the advertising industry.
Working in advertising for 15 years, Jeremy has worked his way from junior video editor to creative director status and is currently working as Social Media Manager at Sullivan Higdon & Sink in Kansas City, MO.
Jeremy’s advertising work has won multiple ADDY awards on local and regional levels, and his collaborative interactive project, the Bad Gift Emporium has received huge amounts of blog buzz and has also been featured in USA Today and on the Jay Thomas Show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Lately, Jeremy has turned his attention to speaking to groups of all sizes and makeup about the subject of advertising and, more specifically, creativity. His talk entitled, From Cowboy To Astronaut: Lessons From The Trail, New Worlds On The Horizon has been enjoyed by a number of university groups, including the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Central Missouri State University and, of course, Jeremy’s alma mater–Oklahoma State University. Jeremy’s talk at the University of Missouri School of Journalism regarding creativity has begun to gain him some notice within the online smarty-pants community.
Jeremy has also been spending much of his spare attention on online broadcasting projects that he enjoys very much. His video series, the COCKTAIL NAPKIN delves into assorted facets of the creative mind at strangely irregular intervals and the YET TO BE NAMED PODCAST could be about–well–a myriad of things during any given episode.
And, if that wasn’t enough, Jeremy also has been thinking a lot about a concept he calls “conversation design.” As he refines the definition and strategy behind that idea, Jeremy puts it into practice commercially for small- and medium-sized business under the CONVOdesign moniker.
Jeremy has a wonderful family that is incredibly understanding and supporting of all this seemingly scattered thinking.
