Dave's Resumé

David Ellis

Sanford, NC 27330

AWARD-WINNING WRITER AND INTERACTIVE DESIGNER

Award-winning, entrepreneurial senior writer and creative on in-house and agency marketing teams with career success delivering live-action and animated video, infographics and social copy, landing pages and interactive copy and ideation in high-tech verticals including media, consumer products, cybersecurity, and telecom. Foster client relationships, lead teams, and collaborate across functions to produce entertaining and engaging content in an often complex, technical world to create content that tells stories, enhances brand and visibility, optimizes consumer experience, and achieves marketing objectives. Core and technical competencies include:

EXPERIENCE

The Game Writer – Sanford NC 2015 – Present

Freelance Writer

Write stories and dialog scripts for original video games and licensed properties from studios like Cartoon Network.

Collaborate with global design teams, licensers, publishers, and studio creative teams to bring an authentic, immersive narrative to their games.

Write numerous VO scripts, some with 10,000+ lines of dialogue.

Koroberi – Raleigh, NC June 2024 – Present

Senior Copywriter

Collaborate with an agency creative team to write emails, ads, web copy, video scripts, press releases, articles and social media posts to promote a variety of industrial manufacturing and supply chain clients.

Write press releases for product and technology launches and innovations.
Write copy for integrated marketing campaigns, including landing pages, emais, social media ads, articles, blogs, and infographics.
Helped to concept and write interactive videos and other elements for a client innovation center.

Novonesis (formerly Novozymes) – Franklinton, NC October 2022 – June 2024

Digital Content Creator and Copywriter

Collaborated with an international creative team to write and design websites, video and animation scripts, articles and social media posts, and craft ads for a variety of platforms to promote agriculture and industrial biosolutions.

Wrote video and animation scripts to promote products and explain technical processes.
Created content for holistic marketing campaigns for Novonesis solutions, including landing pages, email campaigns, social media ads, articles, and infographics.
Scripted and edited videos for internal company use.

N-able – Raleigh NC May 2022 – October 2022

Senior Copywriter

Collaborated with an in-house creative team to write video scripts, web and social content. Work with event teams and designers to create messaging for conferences and other live events. Strategize with creative directors and product leads to create campaigns to promote N-able’s suite of solutions for IT managed service providers.

Collaborated with marketing and promotions teams to redesign N-able’s conference booths and banners.
Worked on the rebranding of landing pages to reflect the rebranding of the company and its products.

Centerline Digital – Raleigh NC September 2016 – May 2022

Senior Content Writer

Developed concepts for and wrote live-action and animation scripts, interactive, web, social, blog, and paid promotional content – as well as long-form pieces like whitepapers and technical briefs – for high-profile tech companies like IBM, Ping Identity, Spectrum, and Lumen, writing in the voice of clients and products with internal creative teams for verticals ranging from cybersecurity and finance to medical and manufacturing.

Wrote content to make even the most complex topics crystal clear.
Worked with creative directors and art leads on every step from initial ideation to finished deliverable.
Auditioned and directed VO talent for scripts.

Rho, Inc. – Chapel Hill, NC April 2016 – September 2016

Associate Application Programmer

Combined writing web design to build and implement internal and client-facing websites for clinical trials.

Collaborated with the software development and web teams to write and edit software process documentation to standardize website implementation.
Wrote and executed test plans to verify that sites functioned properly and met regulatory requirements.

Vicious Cycle Software – Morrisville, NC August 2005 – November 2015

Writer and Senior Designer

Lead teams of 6-45 designers, artists, and programmers. Acted as the design lead and story/scriptwriter. Assisted in the selection and direction of voice talent for original titles and worked with actors, directors, and producers from film and animation on licensed titles, including Cartoon Network, DreamWorks, and Universal.

Shipped 16 video game titles on 15 different platforms in 10 years.
Wrote original story and VO content for established licenses like Adventure Time, Kung-Fu Panda, and Despicable Me.
Created original characters and stories for original IP.
Won the first Writers Guild of America award for video game writing.
Won a Spike TV VGA Award for Best Comedy Game.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Rho, Inc. – Chapel Hill, NC

Software Documentation Manager

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Communications (TV and Film Production)

Towson State University – Towson, MD

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