Digital marketing leader with 16 years of experience scaling businesses through paid media, content strategy, and performance optimization — Fortune 50 to startup. Also a solo founder who has designed, built, and shipped 5 apps independently.
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Took over a local service business with zero digital infrastructure and scaled it 10x in under 3 years through integrated digital marketing.
Led digital marketing strategy for the nation's largest P&C insurer. Managed enterprise campaigns across 100+ agency partnerships.
Founded a digital marketing agency helping local businesses get found through AI search optimization, reputation management, and performance marketing.
Founded and launched the first peer-to-peer rental marketplace built exclusively for powersports — motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs, jet skis, and snowmobiles. Think Turo, but for the 20M+ powersports owners in the U.S. whose vehicles sit idle 340 days a year. Designed, built, and shipped end-to-end by a solo founder.
Built a full digital footprint from zero for a Leroy, IL lawn and landscaping operator with no website, no SEO, and word-of-mouth leads only. Delivered a production site, booking funnel, and launch marketing kit inside one week.
Complete digital rebuild for a veteran-owned HVAC company with a 3.3-star Google rating, F BBB rating, and no website. Currently in progress.
Josh took us from zero digital presence to $5M in revenue. He doesn't just run campaigns — he builds entire marketing engines. The best marketing hire we ever made.
Josh managed digital content strategy across our biggest brand partnerships — NFL, NBA, NASCAR — with the kind of attention to detail that enterprise marketing demands. Incredibly reliable.
Each product designed, built, and taken to market independently — auth, payments, App Store submissions, and go-to-market handled end-to-end.
Think Turo, but for the 20M+ powersports owners whose motorcycles, ATVs, jet skis, and snowmobiles sit idle 340 days a year. Full two-sided marketplace with Stripe Connect payouts, verified profiles, in-app messaging, trip insurance logic, and native iOS + Android apps built with Capacitor. Deployed on Railway with live Stripe keys in production.
One-tap AI photo enhancement built for Airbnb hosts, real estate agents, and marketplace sellers. Upload a phone photo, pick a preset (Airbnb hero, realtor listing, marketplace, powersports), download a polished hero shot in 30 seconds. GPU inference via RunPod, Stripe billing, partner API wired into ThrottleShare for automatic listing photo enhancement.
The Apple Watch training platform with three distinct voice coaches — Kai, Luna, and Jax. Delivers pace, heart-rate, cadence, and interval cues in your coach's voice during the workout, not just a dashboard after. Strava auto-upload, HealthKit write-back, offline maps, GPX import, race predictor, and VO₂ Max tracking built in. Subscription at $9.99/mo.
AR sales tool for pool builders: point a phone at a customer's backyard and drop a true-scale pool into the scene — LiDAR-first on iPhone Pro, ARKit/ARCore fallback on mainstream devices. Built-in dealer-branded proposal with native e-sign, auto-generated HOA site plan, and spouse-share mode so both decision-makers can walk the same AR session simultaneously.
Automated monitor that diffs competitor TOS, pricing pages, and disclaimer copy on a schedule and alerts legal teams to material changes. Built for legal SaaS teams at firms like Clio, Thomson Reuters, and Harvey who need to track regulatory drift without reading 40-page documents. Preselling founding seats at $199/month before the crawler ships.
Hands-on execution across every major marketing channel and platform.
I spent 13 years at State Farm learning how enterprise marketing works from the inside -- managing campaigns for a Fortune 50 brand with 100+ agency partners across every major sports league.
Then I left and built a business from $500K to $5M doing it all myself -- paid media, SEO, email, social, content, CRM. No team. No agency. Just execution.
Now I run Below Zero Media, a digital marketing agency where I build the same systems for local businesses -- websites, reputation management, lead generation, and AI-powered marketing automation.
I also founded and shipped five independent products: ThrottleShare (powersports rental marketplace, live on iOS), Lumenly (AI photo enhancer for listings), Ridgerun (Apple Watch voice coaching platform), SplashLens (AR pool design tool for dealers), and DriftPatrol (compliance diff monitor for law firms) — each built solo from concept to market.
I'm looking for a role where I can bring that full-stack marketing experience to a company that moves fast and values results over meetings.
BS Marketing, University of Phoenix (4.3 GPA, completed in 11 months). P&C licensed across 48 states. Based in Bloomington, IL. Open to remote.
Years in marketing
Solo-built & shipped
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Ready to bring 16 years of full-stack marketing experience to your team. Reach out — I respond within 24 hours.