I direct marketing for companies that need one person to design the work and prove it worked.
Twenty-seven years across brand and art direction, search, paid media, and the web
and data infrastructure underneath all three. Currently founding partner at a digital agency I
co-founded in 2024, and looking for a full-time role.
Sales against the trailing year rate in the first two weeks after a Merchant Center rebuild
100+
Projects a year through the marketing team I led
500%
Increase in online purchases on unchanged ad spend
42
International websites launched during one global rebrand
Selected work
Six projects. Each one names the problem I was handed, the constraint I
had to work inside, and what actually moved. The mechanism comes before the number,
because the number only means something if you can see the lever.
01
A store with a four figure catalog and a tracker that reported none of it
Twin Pines Marketing · Shopify retailer · Google Merchant Center
The problem
The client was selling, but the conversion tracking had recorded zero purchases.
Every decision about spend was being made blind, and the product feed was rejecting
items faster than anyone was fixing them.
The constraint
A catalog well over a thousand items deep, all inherited data, no budget
increase available, and a live store that could not go dark while I worked on it.
What I did
Rebuilt the Merchant Center integration end to end. Corrected the catalog data,
fixed the feed configuration, then repaired the conversion tracking so purchases
were actually recorded against the clicks that caused them.
Why it worked
Nothing about the offer changed. The store had been invisible in Shopping and
unmeasurable in Ads at the same time, so fixing the plumbing released demand that
already existed.
250%
Sales value above the trailing twelve month run rate, measured in the
first two weeks after launch.
Google Merchant CenterShopifyProduct feedsConversion trackingCatalog data
02
Spending the same money, finally knowing which half worked
Leads arrived with no source attached. The client could see totals and nothing
underneath them, so every budget conversation was an argument about opinions.
The constraint
A fixed ad budget that could not grow. Any improvement had to come from
reallocation, not from spending more.
What I did
Built full-funnel tracking with conversion pixels and Google Tag Manager
parameters. When the off-the-shelf tools could not carry click IDs into the lead
forms, I wrote a WordPress plugin that captures UTM and click ID data from Google
Ads directly into WPForms.
Why it worked
Once every purchase traced back to a specific click, the losing campaigns were
obvious. Moving money toward what was already converting did the rest.
500%
Increase in online purchases with ad spend held flat.
Google Tag ManagerGoogle AdsWordPress plugin developmentPHPLooker Studio
03
Rebuilding a website around what buyers actually searched for
PMCF Advisors · investment banking and advisory · Director of Marketing
The problem
Six verticals and two affiliate entities were sharing one site that described the
firm the way the firm described itself, rather than the way buyers looked for it.
The constraint
Everything published had to clear FINRA review, so speculative claims and loose
language were not available to me.
What I did
Rewrote most of the static content, rebuilt the metadata around real search
demand, and cleaned up the interface so a visitor could find one vertical without
reading about the other five. Then I paired search data with the firm's CRM to
decide what to publish next.
Why it worked
The CRM knew which conversations turned into deals. The search data knew what
people typed. Putting those two together turned content planning into a decision
instead of a calendar.
40%
Organic sessions year over year, with the firm tracking attributed
revenue against the search and CRM work.
Forty-two websites, one brand, markets that had never had either
RGIS · global retail services · Online Marketing Manager to Director
The problem
A global rebrand needed to reach markets with no local web presence at all, and regional teams were producing their own materials with no shared rules.
The constraint
Dozens of countries, multiple languages and time zones, and no appetite for a
central bottleneck that would slow every region down.
What I did
Launched 42 international corporate websites and wrote the global brand standards
behind them. Then I taught regional teams and the sales organization to work inside
those standards, including social selling, so the system survived without me
approving every asset.
Why it worked
Standards only hold when the people using them understand the reasoning. The
training was the deliverable as much as the sites were.
2x
Organic traffic over the period, with paid search and SEO run end to
end alongside the rebrand.
Global brand standardsRebrandingPaid searchSales enablementTeam leadership
05
Finding out what the AI models were actually reading
Clients were starting to ask whether AI assistants were quoting them. Standard
analytics could not answer it, because bot traffic gets filtered out before anyone
looks at it.
The constraint
No vendor sold the answer. If I wanted the data, I had to collect it myself.
What I did
Built a WordPress plugin that identifies and logs 44 AI crawlers across client
sites, so we can see which systems visit, how often, and which pages they take. That
sits alongside the AEO and GEO work: schema strategy, metadata, and content
structured so a model quotes it accurately.
Why it matters
Discovery is moving inside AI answers. Being the source an assistant cites is a
marketing problem, and it is one you can only work on if you can measure it.
44
AI crawlers tracked across client sites, turning an unanswerable
question into a reportable one.
AEO and GEOSchema markupPHPPythonBigQuery
06
Multi-location practices that could not be found in their own neighborhoods
Twin Pines Marketing · healthcare clients · local search
The problem
Medical practices with several locations had business profiles scattered across
unrelated accounts, inconsistent name and address data, and no way to advertise
against local intent.
The constraint
Healthcare advertising rules, plus profiles that had accumulated years of
conflicting edits from people who no longer worked there.
What I did
Centralized every Google Business Profile into one master account, corrected name,
address and phone consistency across directories, cleaned up citations, and launched
verified Local Services Ads for each location.
Why it worked
Listing accuracy is unglamorous and decisive. A patient searching two miles away
cannot choose a practice the map does not believe exists.
Verified
Local Services Ads live across locations, with profiles consolidated
under a single master account and citation data corrected.
Google Business ProfileLocal Services AdsNAP and citationsBrightLocalHealthcare marketing
Creative
The case studies above are about measurement. This is the other half of the job.
I hold a BFA and I have been building brand identities, publications and campaign systems since 1999.
A report, a website, a brand system and a film. Everything here I designed and produced myself.
Navigating the Perfect Storm
Thought leadership report · RGIS · 2025
A sixteen page report on freight capacity collapse, written and designed for a
global retail services company. I ran marketing at RGIS from 2015 to 2020. In 2025 they hired
my agency. The brief was to turn a market disruption into something a supply chain executive
would actually finish reading, inside their existing brand standards.
Cover. Brand crimson over a duotoned warehouse plate.Three findings, one flagged critical, so the eye knows where to stop.Statistic panels carry the argument. Body copy stays short.
16pages, written and designed
10sources, cited and footnoted
1designer, no vendor
2015the year they first hired me, as staff
Kimble Tile
Website and paid search · Twin Pines Marketing · 2025
A tile contractor forty years into the business, with a website that had stopped
working and a Google Ads account spending real money on nothing. I rebuilt the site, restructured
the advertising, and marked the business up with LocalBusiness and HomeAndConstructionBusiness
schema so search engines could read what they do, where they do it, and how customers rate them.
kimbletile.com. Quote request and phone number reachable from every screen.
If I could rate Catt and the team over at Twin Pines a 10 star rating, I would.
I went to Catt about a month ago with our business website poorly functioning and a complete
mess. We also were at a loss with our advertising strategy when it came to Google. We were
spending thousands of dollars a year for advertising and we were not getting anything in
return. Catt fixed our website and our Google Ads and within 24 hours of our site going live,
we were back to getting calls and emails for our services. They literally saved our business
that was circling the drain due to our lack of online presence.
24 hrsto the first inbound call after launch, in his words
5.0their Google rating across 28 reviews, now in structured data
40years in business, first real website
Twin Pines Marketing
Brand identity and standards · self-directed
My own agency, so the system had to survive being handed to somebody else.
Not a logo, a set of rules: three lockups with minimum reproduction sizes, clear space measured
off the mark itself, and color assigned by role rather than by swatch, so text, titles and
gradients each have a defined value. The type system splits print from web on purpose.
Adrianna carries print, and Nunito Sans and Josefin Sans carry the site, because those are free on
Google Fonts. Anyone can execute this brand correctly without buying a font license.
Three lockups, each with a stated minimum height. The icon is proofed over photography, not just flat color.Clear space measured off the mark, so the rule holds at any size.Two primaries, tint ramps for each, and every value labeled by the job it does.Two parallel scales. Print and web, specified to the point size.
3lockups, each with a minimum size
17hex values, assigned by role
2type systems, print and web
0font licenses needed to build the site
PMCF Practice Film
Motion graphics and edit · PMCF Advisors
A credentials film introducing the bankers in the firm's plastics and packaging
mergers and acquisitions practice. Made without a camera. No shoot, no crew, no talent day
and no budget for any of them. Footage graded to a single brand blue, existing headshots cut into
a fixed lockup, animated lower thirds, and a voiceover carrying the script. Everything published
had to clear FINRA review before it went out.
Three things that usually sit in three different people.
Marketing and demand
Paid search and paid social, technical SEO, AEO and GEO, email and lifecycle,
content strategy, demand generation, budget ownership, CRM and pipeline reporting,
go-to-market planning, team leadership.
Design and art direction
Brand identity and guidelines, art direction, print and digital production,
packaging-adjacent print work, photography, videography, After Effects animation,
the full Adobe suite, Figma.
Technology
WordPress and plugin development, PHP, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Google Tag
Manager, Google Cloud Functions, BigQuery, Looker Studio, n8n automation, Shopify,
Google Merchant Center.
On AI
I use AI in production rather than as a demo. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini for research
synthesis, drafting and pressure-testing. Firefly and Midjourney for concept exploration.
Client-facing copy is written and edited by me, and I can
walk through any decision on this site out loud.
History
Founding Partner, Creative, Technology and Marketing Director
Twin Pines Marketing, Metro Detroit, MI
03/2024 to present
Director of Marketing
PMCF Advisors, LLC, Southfield, MI
02/2020 to 07/2023
Director of Marketing Communications
RGIS, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI
01/2017 to 02/2020
Online Marketing Manager
RGIS, LLC, Auburn Hills, MI
03/2015 to 12/2016
Communications Senior Specialist and Multimedia Designer
Meritor Inc., Troy, MI
04/2013 to 03/2015
Interactive Digital Media Designer
Valassis, Inc., Livonia, MI
03/2007 to 04/2013
Art Director, Webmaster and Marketing Consultant
Independent, Michigan
08/1999 to 03/2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. School of Business core completed.
2001
Awards: IABC Detroit Renaissance Award of Honor · Meritor Chairman's Award ·
American Inhouse Design Award · Valassis Platinum Performer, High Performance and
Century Club Awards