Dirk Knemeyer

Experience

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  Owens Community College

  Jun 1998 - Dec 2002

  Instructor

  Responsible for teaching courses in Humanities and English. Consistently received exceptional student performance reviews. Participated on the Teaching-Learning committee focused on innovating and improving the educational experience.

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  United Way of Greater Toledo

  Aug 1999 - Nov 1999

  Loaned Executive

  Responsible for raising money during the annual fundraising campaign from media and marketing companies in the Greater Toledo area. Duties include: making presentations at various companies and events, face-to-face sales calls, telephone cold calling, customer relationship management, financial management and organization. My accounts had the largest increase in both donors and total volume of donations of any Loaned Executive (25 total) in the group.

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  The Lauerer Markin Group Inc.

  Nov 1999 - May 2002

  Responsible for managing major branding clients. Duties include: business management of my accounts, business and marketing consultation, direction and oversight of multi-disciplinary creative teams, planning and analysis of stakeholder and customer research. Also worked with the owners to develop a management consulting practice. Responsible for managing over 100 projects and working with various clients. Duties include: setting and managing project schedules, coordinating team members, arranging and leading meetings, quoting projects, contributing to project and client strategy.

  • Account Manager

    May 2000 - May 2002

  • Project Manager

    Nov 1999 - May 2000
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  Thread Marketing Group

  Jun 2002 - May 2004

  Responsible for organizational planning, corporate design, sales and marketing planning, brand management, directing select design projects, providing consulting services to select clients. Served as the internal management consultant, responsible for researching, conceptualizing, planning, and leading the execution of a company-wide restructuring, transforming visual communications company Image Source Inc. into information design firm Thread Inc.

  • Chief Design Officer

    Nov 2002 - May 2004

  • Strategic Business Director

    Jun 2002 - Nov 2002
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  GoInvo

  May 2004 - Dec 2019

  Provide executive oversight to the leadership team and participate in strategic planning. Take on special projects related to select clients and internal initiatives. Sold the company in December 2019. Established GoInvo in Silicon Valley. We designed software for Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Shutterfly and many other top companies. In 2008 I expanded the company to Boston where we serviced the administration of President Barack Obama, PTC and AstraZeneca.

  • Chairman

    Jun 2011 - Dec 2019

  • Co-Founder/CEO

    May 2004 - Jun 2011
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  Spivot LLC

  Jun 2006 - Dec 2007

  Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

  Oversight and responsibility for all business, marketing and operational issues.

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  Rosenfeld Media

  Jan 2008 - now

  Advisor & Expert

  As an advisor, helped shape the company strategy for Rosenfeld Media during its first seven years.As an expert, among a stable of UX thought leaders who provide consulting and training to senior UX leaders and the C-suite.

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  Conqusitador Games, Inc.

  Dec 2010 - Jan 2015

  Founder

  Founded Conquistador to manifest the various game designs I've conceptualized over the years. Rolled into the new company Artana in January 2015.

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  Facio Inc.

  Jun 2011 - Dec 2013

  Founder

  Envisioned this software service, raised an institutional funding round, and built a company to pursue it. The product was ahead of its time and we did not create adequate product-market fit to close our next funding round.

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  The Game Design Round Table

  Nov 2011 - now

  Co-Founder, Co-Host, Producer

  The Game Design Round Table (TGDRT) is a show by game designers, for game designers. We are one of the oldest and largest game design podcasts in the world. The show features diverse game designer guests from digital, tabletop, and role playing games. Our shows consistently have over 5,000 listeners in the first 30 days and popular shows peak over 20,000 listeners. We routinely crack the top 50 best art and design list on Apple Podcasts despite our narrow, targeted audience of game designers.

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  Artana LLC

  Jan 2015 - Aug 2019

  Co-Founder, Creative Director

  Creative leader for game publishing company specializing in games about history and technology. My personal designs included the Tesla vs. Edison family of games, Einstein, and The New Science. Acquired by Genius Games in August 2019.

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  Creative Next

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2020

  Producer, Co-Project Lead

  Research project exploring the future of creative work. www.creativenext.org

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  Civil Media Company

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

  Participating Publisher

  Integrated our publication, Creative Next, into the Civil family of newsrooms delivering high-quality journalism integrated with the blockchain. Actively involved in the leadership community of journalists working on and with the platform to extend and leverage the Civil vision.

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  SciStories LLC

  Jan 2020 - now

  Managing Director

  Leader of full-service agency that helps science-driven organizations meet their strategic goals through exceptional marketing and communications. Works hands-on with executive leadership teams to achieve excellence across the strategic planning and communications continuum.