Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith lives where copy, art, and code collide.

Samuel Smith is, was, and has always been a tinkerer at heart. Forged in the fires of legos and Nintendo, his creative mind was shaped early by a love of building, his analytic mind shaped by a love of puzzles. To expect that his career will be prolific would be an understatement: he is already one of the world's foremost digital marketing experts with career highlights in digital advertising and marketing stretching back nearly ten years. Though many claim to know "how digital works," Samuel Smith helped make digital advertising work the way it does. This profile is not kept current.

Teaching Assistant at Newhouse School, Syracuse University

August 2012 - April 2013

Samuel Smith was a instructional associate for one year at the nation's most competitive communications school, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He provided teaching and administrative support in the Advertising department and was an occasional lecturer in ADV 206: Advertising Practice in a Diverse Society.

Project Planner at WebsiteDesignz

November 2011 - December 2011

As a project planner for a Web development company with $1MM+ annual revenue, Samuel Smith personally managed Web application development and acted as a liaison between designers, slicers, programmers, QA, and clients. The position included heavy technical writing defining project scopes and some QA testing of in-development apps.

Copywriter at Firecracker PR

2010 - November 2011

As the copywriter on staff at Firecracker PR, Samuel Smith provided blog content, press releases, case studies, advertising copy, and whitepapers for clients in a variety of industries, including CCTV surveillance, resorts and hotels, shopping malls, electronics manufacturers, and many more.

Interactive Media Production Consultant at Interactive Media Lab

2005 - 2007

As a consultant at the Interactive Media Lab, Samuel Smith took part in filming, editing, and publishing conferences and speeches given to students and faculty of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He also assisted with the migration of the Information & Computing Technology website from FrontPage/IIS to Joomla and provided hands-on multimedia training and support for faculty and staff.

S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

2012 – 2013

Master's Degree

Concentration: Advertising

Syracuse University

2005 – 2008

B.A.

Concentration: Dual Major in Psychology, Philosophy. Minor Political Science. Dean's List.

Kilgore College

2002 – 2005

Focus

Concentration: Computer Programming

I enjoy marketing, chess, poker, running a business, hacking, and hiking.