ANDREW
ZELL
Hey - great to meet you. You can call me Zell.
I'm a creative thinker, lifelong learner, and a detail-obsessed operator that's always striving for efficiency and output.
I currently live in Denver, CO and work for Zoom as a Creative Lead on the Value Selling and Executive Briefing team inside the Revenue org.
I started my career journey as an artist for bands back in the MySpace days, spent a decade touring the world in bands, grew a junk removal franchise from $440k to $1.5m in Milwaukee, briefly ran a Rage Room, and finally stumbled into working in tech in 2021 when I joined Zoom as a Sales Enablement Specialist.
Since then, I've grown into being the Creative Director for Zoom's sales kickoff events, moved onto a specialist creative team, learned Blender, and launched my own small business: a candle company called Pathfinder Goods.
I'm never gonna stop learning, being a positive force, or blasting punk rock during the workday.
Experience
- Create and structure presentations and media for executive briefings, board meetings, premier customers, all-hands, global experience centers, and more.
- Direct, design, and produce annual sales kickoff events, virtually and in-person.
- Collaborate with instructional designers to promote product adoption, enhance learner engagement, and help sellers sell.
- Foster cross-functional relationships to align efforts with company values and support sales objectives.
- Writer, designer, director for all media, including print, digital, and video.
- Researching, planning, executing on strategic business decisions in line with CEO/CFO direction.
- Vendor procurement and management in payroll, supplies, insurance, vehicle leasing, banking, property management.
- Launched 11 franchise business locations from Milwaukee to San Diego.
- Created, designed, and managed website/artist submission platform by identifying key features and functions and implementing them.
- Designed all advertisements, newsprint guide, artist showcase flyers, attendee badges, event signage, and custom guitars annually.
- On-site management of venues, artists, sponsors.
Education
Hard Skills
Disciplines that energize and excite me:
- Graphic Design
- Project Management
- Scriptwriting, Copywriting
- Business set-up and integral vendor selection
- Video & Motion Graphics
- Web Design
- Sales Enablement & Instructional Design
- Event Production
- Presentation Design
Soft Skills
What makes you want to work with me day-in and day-out:
- Willingness to learn
- Positivity
- Creative problem solving
- Time management
- Scoping and objective discovery
- Organization and punctuality
- Verbal and written communication
- Active listening, notetaking, brainstorming
- Transforming visions to plans
Tools & Proficiencies
What I feel comfortable working in and with to get the job done:
- Adobe Creative Software
- Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro
- WYSIWYG Web Editors
- Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Swoogo Events
- Google Workspace
- Slides, Docs, Sheets, Analytics, Ads
- Microsoft 365/Office
- PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Instructional Design
- Articulate, Rise360, Docebo
- Web-based editors
- Figma
- AI Tools
- ChatGPT, Vercel v0, Midjourney
- Blender
Nights & Weekends
How I'm generally spending my free time:
- Learning...
- Blender
- Unreal Engine
- Davinci Resolve
- Rive/Lottie
- Enjoying...
- Valorant (need carry)
- Downhill mountain biking
- Cars & coffee
- Kodak Ultramax 400
- Selling candles at farmer's markets
- Listening to...
- Bottom Bracket - Camouflage
- Reading...
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda
