New year. New hires at Drake Cooper

Screwball headline aside, Drake Cooper started off the new year with two senior-level additions to their staff: Colleen Morgan, who’s joining as Sr. Graphic Designer and Susan Becker, joining as Brand Manager.

From the post on Drake Cooper’s site about their new hires:

Colleen Morgan

Colleen MorganColleen brings over 16 years of design and advertising goodness to Drake Cooper. In that time, she has lived in the agency world as well as both corporate and non-profit sectors while honing her skills in branding, design and creative strategy. In that time, she has lived in the agency world as well as both corporate and non-profit sectors while honing her skills in branding, design and creative strategy. For a designer, her right and left-brain are surprisingly balanced.

Susan Becker

Susan BeckerSusan brings over fifteen years of marketing experience to her role at Drake Cooper, seven of those being with Portland-based Columbia Sportswear. As the promotions operations manager for Columbia she developed sponsorship programs with partners including NBC’s 2002 Winter Olympics, ESPN’s XGames, Sundance Film Festival, and The Discovery Channel. Since moving to Boise in 2008 Susan’s roles have included marketing manager at BOB Trailers, sponsorship manager with The Exergy Tour, and various consulting roles for businesses in the area.

Tis the season

For holiday ads from the Idaho Lottery, that is. And it looks like the folks over at Drake Cooper had some fun with them this year.

 

Promotions at Drake Cooper

Drake CooperA couple of notable promotions over at Drake Cooper recently:

Brad Weigle has been promoted from Project Manager to Manager / Digital Planning.

Dylan Amundson has been promoted from Brand Manager to Manager / Business Development.

Additional details about these promotions are available here.

Congratulations to both.

Job Openings at Drake Cooper

Drake CooperDrake Cooper in Boise is looking for the right people to fill several positions that they have available, including:

Senior Application Developer

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. ASP.NET developer with a strong background in building creative, scalable, high-quality and high-performance web applications.

Looking for someone who can both code and provide digital thought leadership. Standard front-end dev skills are a must: ability to code semantic, standards-based xhtml and bulletproof css. We want you to have javascript and jQuery experience.

Associate Creative Director/Art Director

We are looking for a talented, passionate, energetic, Associate Creative Director/Art Director rock star type person with highly developed collaborative muscles and concept chops who has mastered the intersection of art and commerce. Moody egoists need not apply.

Digital Project Manager

Digital Project Manager manages digital team function and day-to-day management activities including project management, deadline and budget tracking, building estimates and statements of work, basic edits to websites and support materials, and content writing for digital work.

Project Manager

Project Manager manages account service team function and day-to-day management activities including project management, deadline and budget tracking, creative team management, and conducting meetings and client presentations.

Full details about all of these positions and how to apply can be found on the Drake Cooper website.

Familiar names in this year’s 40 under 40

Accomplished Under 40

While looking through this year’s 40 under 40 – also known as the 14th annual Idaho Business Review Accomplished under 40 list – several familiar names were among this year’s honorees, including:

Karianne Fallow, Red Sky Public Relations

John Hardesty, Bodybuilding.com

Carolyn Lodge, DaviesMoore

Jennie Myers, Drake Cooper

Amanda Watson, Red Sky Public Relations

These, and the other 35 of this year’s Accomplished under 40 will be recognized at an awards ceremony on June 13th, and the 2013 Accomplished under 40 magazine will be published in the June 14th edition of the Idaho Business Review.

Congratulations to all.