Marketing industry veteran and founder of JY360, a consultancy with extensive background in creating illuminating and persuasive content for clients ranging from local businesses to global brands. Looking to transition from freelance and contract work back to a full-time position.
Has managed complex projects and served organizations across a variety of fields including software & high tech, financial, health care & human services, pharmaceutical, advisory, higher Ed, and broadcast media.
Broadcast television experience comprised of fifteen years of work on shows including "Seinfeld", "Saved By The Bell", and "This Old House” for NBC, Castle Rock Entertainment, Polygram, Time Inc. and Powderhouse Productions.
Jeffrey holds a B.Sc. in Mass Communications from Emerson College.
Specialties
• Newsletters (writing and design)
• Article and blog writing
• Case studies
• Graphic Design with Adobe Creative Suite
• Web Content Management
• Script writing
• Video production
• Desktop video editing
• Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+
• E-mail marketing with Constant Contact
Marketing Professional @ Writer, Producer, Designer, Manager. Clients include:
• Gordon Brothers Group
• Communispace
• WGBH
• The Greater Boston Food Bank
• Best Doctors
• Shire
• Knovel Corporation
• Time, Inc.
• New England Quality Care Alliance (NEQCA)
• EUS Networks
• Powderhouse Productions
• Mercer Marketing (MPN)
• SiCortex From October 2007 to Present (8 years 3 months) Marketing Communications Manager @ • Oversaw worldwide company re-brand
• Migrated company to online collateral ordering system
• Managed all outside print and design vendors for print and electronic marketing materials, including those for trade shows
• Helped execute all email and direct mail campaigns
• Established and maintained budgets for outside marketing vendors
• Oversaw design, production and delivery of company's annual report, working closely with the company's executive and financial staff From 2005 to 2007 (2 years) Co-Founder/Creative Director @ • Helped determine company strategy
• Developed, wrote and co-directed original concepts for marketing content in the form of online 2D and 3D games, animated shorts, and other viral marketing tools. From February 2000 to May 2005 (5 years 4 months) Interim IP Coordinator @ • Worked with patent attorneys, inventors and representatives from the lab's 170 corporate sponsors in interpreting and implementing wide-ranging IP policies with the help of the lab's directorial staff.
• Advised graduate students on submitting requests for lab-sanctioned patent applications. From November 1998 to January 2000 (1 year 3 months) Script Coordinator/Production Associate @ On staff at "Seinfeld" for five seasons.
• Worked in writers office with Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld and staff of 13 writers.
• Took producers' shoot notes.
• Coordinated all casting sessions.
• Served as liaison between production staff, the network, and all department heads.
Time before and after the "Seinfeld" work included work at Polygram on the syndicated series "The Crow" for USA Network, and close to two seasons at NBC's "Saved By The Bell" supporting the show's writers and producers. From July 1990 to September 1998 (8 years 3 months) Greater Los Angeles Area
B.Sc., Television Production @ Emerson College From 1988 to 1990 English; Political Science; Art History @ McGill University From 1986 to 1988 Jeffrey Yerkes is skilled in: Copy writing, Copy Editing, Project Management, Video Production, Video Editing, Adobe Creative Suite, Managing Project Budgets, Marketing Communications, Social Media, Newsletters, Copywriting, Corporate Communications, Broadcast, Event Planning, Marketing Strategy
Websites:
http://www.jy360.biz