Team

Steve Sparkman, President:

Prior to restarting the agency, he was senior manager of marketing services at HaloSource where his responsibilities included marketing our four business units – HaloPure, HaloKlear, HaloShield, and SeaKlear. Before HaloSource, he  founded and ran SmarterAds. Our clients included Pacific Medical Centers, Pro2Net, The PolyClinic,, HaloSource (they hired him way from the agency), Providence Health System and the State of Washington Department of Health.  Steve has also worked with Alaska Airlines, Siemens Medical Systems, OneComm (Nextel), BARD Diagnostic Sciences, Premera Blue Cross, Maximizer Software, Lucky Stores, and Farmland Industries at Livingston & Company, Floathe Johnson/EvansGroup Technology, Hadley | Green Advertising, and Grey Advertising. In addition, he was manager of advertising and public relations for MarkAir. Steve’s personal website can be seen at www.stephensparkman.com

 

Tats Higashi, Creative Director:

Tats has extensive experience working at a variety of regional and national agencies such as Leo Burnet, Sharp Hartwig Woodruff Sweitzer, and Floathe Johnson/EvansGroup Technology. He has worked on a wide range of accounts such as United Airlines, McDonalds, Kits Camera, Group Health Cooperative, ATL, INTERLINQ software,Attachmate Corporation, ICS, Active Voice, and Premera Blue Cross (he worked on the award-winning Blue Moon and Make Health Happen campaigns). In addition, he was responsible for the “Well Well Well” campaign for The Polyclinic and his “Talk to me, baby” campaign for ICS was Adweek’s Grand Marque Award winner.

 

Alyssa Russell: Web and Social Media Guru:

Alyssa’s interest in computer science and technology began at a young age disassembling her parent’s VCR to understand how it played disney movies, which led to self-taught coding of public-key cryptography and MySpace profiles. After a rigorous honors education at the University of Washington, Alyssa developed an extensive background in B2B/B2C online marketing at HaloSource, Inc and later worked remotely from Hawaii as Director of Operations for EcoShop Holdings, LLC.

 

Sue Ferguson, Media Director:

Sue has extensive media planning and buying experience working for a variety of agencies such as Elgin/DDB Needham, Brown and Hadley, NW Ayer/Baker, and Earle Ludgin Advertising. She has worked on accounts such as Virginia Mason Medical Center, Providence Health System, Washington State Department of Transportation, PacMed, Washington Energy Services, Weyerhaeuser, West One Bank, Puget Sound Bank, Holland America Line, Go2Net, and Starbucks.

 

Scott Johnson, Digital Artist:

Scott specializes in product packaging and marketing collateral. He has worked with clients such as Mahketshim Agan of North America, HaloSource Inc., Alligare Inc., Universal Paper Box, KMG Berneuth, Inc., Big E Brewing Co., Advantage Learning Systems, Ceannard Inc., Ashby Creative, AgSaver Inc., Crop Smart, PrimeraOne and K-Tek Agro.