NEW MEDIA CAMPAIGNS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of Project Management
Born in Greensboro, NC, Alex leads NMC's project management team. He focuses on business development, marketing strategy and project management for NMC's larger clients. He's been with the company since 2008 working with clients to better understand and utilize the web.
Alex has launched websites, digital marketing campaigns and custom applications for hundreds of organizations ranging from national nonprofits to local startups. An SEO, analytics and marketing strategist, he works closely with NMC's technical staff to prepare sites for launch, making sure all adjustments are in line with the client's digital communication strategies.
Alex graduated from the University of North Carolina with a B.A. in Journalism/Advertising and a Poetry Writing concentration. He has been a repeat guest lecturer at UNC's School of Journalism. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and three children.
Job Titles:
- Creative Director
- Designer
Ashley joined New Media Campaigns as a Designer and Front-End Developer in May 2011. She closely works with clients to get an understanding of how they want to extend their brand to the web, and designs to meet their online goals while also remaining consistent with their brand. Ashley has extensive experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development, giving her an important understanding of how designs will translate to the web and mobile.
Ashley previously worked as a developer and interactive designer for the News & Observer, Reese News, Swarm Interactive, as well as several freelance gigs. Since joining the NMC team, Ashley has led the design process for some of the company's most prominent clients, including designing websites for RTI International, UNC Chapel Hill, and Feeding America.
Ashley currently works remotely in Charlotte, NC with her husband and daughter. There, she enjoys raising her backyard chickens, exploring the local brewery and restaurant scene, and teaching children's art classes. Ashley is a 2011 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate with a degree in Journalism/Multimedia.
Bridget is a Project Manager at New Media Campaigns and supports clients through the web design and development lifecycle. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned degrees in Computer Science and Political Science and was a Morehead-Cain Scholar.
Prior to joining NMC, Bridget spent time working in management consulting and nonprofit operations. She is an Omaha, Nebraska native who now calls Durham home.
Clay, a Cleveland, OH native is one of the original founders of New Media Campaigns and has directed client relations and business development efforts since 2006. In these roles, Clay has grown NMC into an award-winning company with hundreds of clients from around the world. Clay also leads NMC's Agency Partnership program, helping advertising agencies across the country leverage new media for their clients. Clay's leadership at NMC earned him recognition by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of America's top young entrepreneurs.
Clay has managed and implemented the online marketing, SEO, and social media efforts for organizations of all sizes around the world. His work has led to millions of dollars in online transactions for nonprofits, businesses, and political campaigns.
Clay has been a featured speaker around the country, including at the American Association of Political Consultants annual conference, the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, the Legal Marketing Association Southeastern Chapter, as a repeat guest lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill, and more. Clay has also been featured and quoted by Inc., The BBC, NPR The Atlantic, Marketplace, Daily Beast, Business Insider, Fox News, and others.
Prior to NMC, Clay worked with political campaigns in Ohio, helping candidates leverage new media to spread their message. Clay is a graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in Advertising and Political Science. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and two daughters.
Raised in a military family, Emily was born in Germany but has since lived in six states before settling and calling North Carolina home.
Emily joined New Media Campaigns in July of 2019 coming from the world of startups. Her previous experience includes account and project management for an agency as well as managing the digital marketing efforts for a national wellness company in Raleigh, North Carolina. With her marketing knowledge and passion for the web, she is able to partner with clients across various industries.
Emily earned her MBA from Bellevue University and graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in Advertising and Graphic Arts. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter, exploring local trails, restaurants, and watching college football.
Eric joined NMC as a Front End Developer in December of 2016. Eric spent the last 8 years prior to joining NMC at a creative agency in Durham, NC. He joined our team to collaborate with other developers and create the highest quality websites for NMC's clients. Eric has worked with a large variety of clients, including large universities, national brands, and startups.
Eric began as a Graphic Designer earning his Bachelors degree at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. Shortly after graduating, he discovered his love for Web Development. He especially enjoys the daily challenges that developing brings.
Eric lives in Durham with his wife Latasha and two children Ethan and Laylah. In his free time he enjoys playing basketball, collecting TopShot NFTs, watching Pittsburgh Steelers football, and UNC basketball. He is also working on passing along his love for sneakers to his son, which is well documented on his Instagram account.
Hannah graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.
For the past 7 years, she's worked at various agencies helping clients build brand awareness, increase social and web presence, and develop thoughtful, creative campaigns.
A passionate problem-solver, Hannah loves helping clients overcome challenges and strives to help them identify and achieve their marketing goals.
Hannah lives in Carrboro with her husband, son Sam, and their dog, Nora. She serves on the Board of Directors for Triangle Ultimate and Chapel Hill Day Care Center and enjoys investing in her local community. When she's not working, you'll find her spending time with her family, taking photographs, and teaching yoga.
Born and raised in Raleigh, NC, Izzy comes to New Media Campaigns with a unique background that blends graphic design with a longtime interest in web development. Izzy traces this passion back to high school, when she spent her free time designing and coding one-of-a-kind MySpace templates.
After pursuing development full-time in 2015, Izzy has supported a wide variety of clients through web projects large and small. From local businesses to major universities, Izzy's deep technical knowledge allows her to efficiently address challenges and provide creative solutions on the fly.
When she's not building websites, Izzy enjoys tackling freelance graphic design projects and honing her many hobbies - illustration, photography, pour painting, jewelry-making, hula hooping, video games and more. Izzy and her husband live in Durham with Zuko, their Australian Cattle Dog puppy.
Joel, an Omaha, NE native, has been the President of NMC since 2006. Under his leadership the company has gone from a small startup to an award-winning full service web design, development and marketing firm that has launched over 400 websites. Joel's leadership at NMC earned him recognition by Bloomberg Businessweek as one of America's top young entrepreneurs. He served as lead developer on NMC's current content management system which powers millions of visits each year.
Joel's innovative techniques in JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS have been featured around the world in some of the most popular web design and development online publications. Joel is also one of the primary architects of the HiFi Web Publishing software. He helped lead the transition from NMC's original CMS to HiFi, the company's new powerful web publishing engine.
Outside of NMC, Joel sits on the board of UNC-Chapel Hill's Entrepreneurship minor and has lectured at UNC-Chapel Hill on Entrepreneurship and new media. Before NMC, he co-founded OpenPage Design, a successful company that built custom online tools for small organizations. Joel is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has an honors degree in Computer Science and was a Morehead Scholar.
Job Titles:
- Special Projects Director
Josh has worked at New Media Campaigns since 2007. As Special Projects Director, Josh tackles many of New Media Campaigns' complex projects, including advanced Drupal builds, internal tooling, and website hosting infrastructure.
Josh is the author of Modern PHP published by O'Reilly Media. He began the Slim Framework, a popular PHP micro framework that enables rapid web application and API development. Josh also started and currently curates PHP The Right Way, a popular initiative in the PHP community that encourages good practices and disseminates quality information for PHP developers around the world.
When not behind a computer, Josh can often be found behind his camera. Josh is an avid amateur film and digital photographer. You can see his work on Flickr.
Mikayla is a Designer at New Media Campaigns, helping craft beautiful and purpose-driven designs for clients. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in Business Administration, concentrating in Entrepreneurship and Marketing.
Her passion for art led her to pursue graphic & web design, which were included in her previous role at a business consulting firm. She also managed content creation, branding, social media strategy, and email marketing as the internal digital marketing lead at the firm.
In her free time, Mikayla enjoys photography, design, cooking, and reading. She also loves movie nights with her family and going out to new places with her friends.
Olivia is a Project Manager at New Media Campaigns. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2020 with a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy, and received her M.B.A. with a concentration in Marketing from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Olivia is from Swansboro, NC and moved to Chapel Hill in 2016. She loved the area so much that she decided to remain in the Triangle area after obtaining her undergraduate degree. Olivia spends her free time exploring the Triangle, attending concerts, and managing a local band!
Born in Baton Rouge, LA but raised in NMC's hometown, Sam is a full stack developer comfortable in just about any area of the web development stack. Sam got his start while attending The University of North Carolina at Greensboro - for Music Eduction - where he designed websites for local businesses and campus organizations between (and sometimes during) classes.
Eventually, he changed tracks to study in the Computer Science department and soon took a position at a software development company in Greensboro. There, he produced custom web applications ranging from CRMs to Ecommerce sites - and even one social network and video-sharing platform - and eventually came to manage all of the company's web projects from backend to frontend, allowing him to hone his skills enough to build both Php packages for Laravel and a ground-up Javascript framework.
Before long, he was drawn back to the charm and vibrance of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area, and eventually found his place at New Media Campaigns in 2015. As a developer at NMC, Sam works on both custom web applications and CMS-hosted sites, where his breadth and depth of experience lends him the flexibility to produce polished code wherever it's needed.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- NMC As a Designer
Shannon joined NMC as a Designer in March 2015. Shannon brings a local flair to NMC, having grown up in Chapel Hill, and spent the two years prior to joining NMC at a creative agency in Durham, NC. She joined our team to focus on her love of web design and bring her extensive design experience to NMC's clients. Shannon has worked with a large variety of clients, including large universities, national brands, and startups.
Prior to joining the agency world, Shannon graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she explored a number of creative disciplines but maintained a focus on the web. While at SCAD, Shannon spent a semester living in Hong Kong and studying art & design.
While she focuses on web design day to day, she has a soft spot in her heart for craft beer packaging. When not designing or taste testing, Shannon also enjoys mountain biking and boating. She's a triplet!
Job Titles:
- Developer
- Junior Web Developer
Shiori is a junior web developer at New Media Campaigns. Shiori graduated from a coding bootcamp and then interned at NMC before joining the company full-time. She focuses on supporting existing client sites and new WordPress builds along with helping sites progress toward launch.
Shiori was born in Myrtle Beach, SC and grew up in Greensboro, NC. She is a graduate from University of North Carolina Greensboro with a degree in International Business and a minor in Japanese. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, playing video games with friends, and going to concerts.
Sophie is a Designer at New Media Campaigns. In this role, she helps to lead NMC's content marketing efforts by developing topical blog posts, creating in-depth portfolio pieces, and collaborating with team members on other areas of marketing strategy. Additionally, Sophie works with our branding clients to ensure that their vision comes through in every stage of the digital project.
Prior to joining the team full-time, Sophie was an intern at NMC who focused primarily on behind-the-scenes client support. She comes to the company with a wide range of experiences in marketing and event planning for prominent local brands.
Sophie graduated magna cum laude from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. During her time at F&M, she ran Cross Country and Track (Go Dips!) while earning a degree in American Studies and a concentration in Mass Media and Popular Culture. Despite her love of Amish Country, Sophie is a Chapel Hillian by birth who is thrilled to return to the Tar Heel State.
Todd joined New Media Campaigns as a Front-End Developer in January 2013 after working with several prominent agencies in the Raleigh-Durham area. At New Media Campaigns, Todd is responsible for leveraging the latest web technologies to build powerful and scalable websites for NMC clients. He is experienced in several Content Management Systems and prefers NMC's HiFi CMS and WordPress.
Todd started his agency career as a Project Manager, but quickly became interested in the production side of the business. He transitioned to become a Graphic Designer while also teaching himself to code at night on side projects. In 2010, he made front-end development his primary focus and believes he has found his calling.
Todd is originally from Durham, North Carolina and still calls it home today. He is a graduate of NC State University with a degree in Communication and a minor Graphic Communication.