Ron Miller

• Teach Advertising & Creativity courses focused on campaign strategy, creative ideation, brand storytelling, and audience engagement. • Mentor undergraduate students in concept development, brand voice, and the thoughtful integration of AI into modern marketing and creative workflows.

• Built a high-output, white-paper-driven marketing engine producing 100+ integrated campaigns in under one year across email, web, social media, trade shows, and sales enablement. • Led integrated marketing and communications strategy for a clean-label food science company specializing in sugar reduction and fiber innovation. • Translated highly technical formulation and ingredient concepts into accessible, audience-focused campaigns for food manufacturers, formulators, and industry professionals. • Developed and managed a multi-channel content ecosystem including white papers, blogs, email campaigns, sales materials, social media, trade show assets, video, and digital advertising. • Increased website traffic, lead generation, and audience engagement through integrated campaigns combining technical storytelling, SEO strategy, paid media, and marketing automation. • Collaborated closely with executives, formulators, sales teams, and developers to align brand messaging with business objectives and evolving AI-assisted workflows. • Helped shape a modern marketing approach that combined AI-driven efficiency with authentic communication, human judgment, and audience trust.

• Helped support company growth from approximately $7M to $18M through integrated marketing initiatives spanning behavioral healthcare, military aviation, and specialty product divisions. • Led brand strategy, campaign development, trade show marketing, digital content, photography, video, and sales enablement across highly technical and regulated product categories. • Unified marketing efforts across multiple business divisions through the development of a new corporate identity system, updated messaging architecture, and integrated brand standards.

• Served as a fractional marketing and communications leader for healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, tourism, SaaS, and regional organizations. • Directed brand strategy, websites, publications, executive communications, social media, photography, video, and integrated marketing campaigns across diverse industries and audiences. • Led large-scale healthcare communications initiatives distributed to more than 80,000 households, translating complex information into accessible, community-focused messaging. • Helped organizations strengthen brand identity, audience engagement, and strategic communication through integrated storytelling and multi-channel campaign development. • Worked with organizations including Samaritan Health, Taste Newberg, Clinicient, Peachworks, Creative Company, and regional nonprofit and economic development groups.

• Co-founded a national youth sports ecommerce company in partnership with Nike. • Developed brand strategy, ecommerce infrastructure, and marketing systems supporting more than 500 custom team websites. • Helped grow the business from the startup phase to approximately $50M in annual revenue.

• Led a complete brand and marketing transformation that helped grow the company from approximately $7M to more than $30M in annual revenue. • Repositioned a commodity industrial tubing manufacturer into a differentiated, design-forward brand through integrated campaigns, photography, trade shows, digital marketing, and visual storytelling. • Developed a highly recognizable visual identity system and original product photography style that helped elevate brand perception across domestic and international markets. • Founded employee-driven community fundraising initiatives that raised more than $40,000 for regional nonprofits and earned the Oregon Governor’s Volunteer Award.

• Led nationwide rollout, training, and technical communications initiatives for innovative ChromaPak packaging technology across the United States, Mexico, and Central America.

• Worked on early internet and digital publishing initiatives during the emergence of the commercial web, supporting platforms including MapQuest, BigYellow, and FYND.

KBVR-FM and KBVR-TV (4 years)