Resumé & Contact
Karen Goldfarb
415-244-5324
kareng7@gmail.com
| FREELANCE COPYWRITER AND MARKETING STRATEGIST |
Clients include California Academy of Sciences, IDEO, Lipton Tea, Beaulieu Vineyards, Red Lobster, AOL, SAP, and Sun Microsystems. |
| Creative Director SF Interactive/Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners 2002—2003 Associate Creative Director 1999—2002 |
“Describe being a CD in 100 words or less.” OK… • Mentor creative teams in development of work Clients included Shockwave.com, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Cisco, Microsoft and others you won’t know. |
| Freelance Writer 1998—1999 |
Many clients. Many projects. Much animal fat.
Gallo Salame—Lead two creative teams in developing concepts for a broadcast campaign. Challenge Butter—Created their first TV spot in 25 years. |
| Senior Copywriter Cohn & Wells 1995—1998 |
The first time I ever saw employed people start a food fight.
Cisco Systems—Brought them in as a prospect and participated in pitch to win their $10 million account. Microsoft—Created a fully integrated marketing campaign that helped win the account. Did print and Web advertising for the client for two years. Miraval—Developed an award-winning, integrated brand and marketing campaign launching this Arizona resort. Sony—Created an integrated marketing strategy for their new direct channel, including catalogs, Web advertising and an e-commerce site. |
| Marketing Writer Adobe Systems 1992—1995 |
Wrote all marketing components for launches of Adobe’s entire product line. |
| Copywriter Inmac 1991—1992 |
Wrote B2B catalogs for PC products targeting UNIX, Macintosh, PC and Networking markets. |
| Copywriter, DM Oracle Corporation 1989—1991 |
Wrote copy for B2B response marketing projects. |
| EDUCATION | B.A. with Honors in Business Economics, Mills College, 1988. |
| AWARDS | Silver Addy, Web, 2007 ZoneAlarm Force Field Website Bronze Addy, Web, 2006 Bronze Addy, Outdoor, 2004 Best Technology Rich-Media Advertisement, Webawards, 2003 Bronze Addy, Rich Media, 2002 Winner, Yahoo! Millionaire Contest, 2000 Gold, Best Use of Rich Media, AD:TECH awards, 1999 Gold Addy, Full-Page Newspaper Advertising, 1998 Silver Addy, Direct Mail Flat, 1997 Silver, American Advertising Awards, 1996 But enough about me… |
