Dustin Owens

Partner, CEO at Goodness

Raleigh, NC, USA

Work Experience

Goodness

Partner, CEO

Helping you build your brand and grow your business. Goodness is your trusted partner for strategy, design, and marketing.
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Founder and Partner conceiving and creating brand, business, and marketing strategy deliverables for regional businesses and nonprofits. Provide creative concepting, design and development, and multi-media production for brand and event identities. Partner in business oversight including client acquisition and business development, operations, financials, and marketing.
July 2018 - Present Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Harvey Dustin Creative

Owner + Principal

Brand designer and art director providing graphic design and marketing strategy services to individuals, small businesses, and design agencies.
January 2008 - July 2018 North Carolina, United States

Amazing Studios

Art Director, Operations Director

Recruited to cultivate company’s standards of creative excellence while driving creative strategies, conceptions, project ideations, and executing on stylistic design elements. Provided direction and inspiration to staff regarding visual design, brand development and overall aesthetics of projects, and originated additional creative initiative in composing music for video projects.

Select Highlights:
• Team received 19 awards in design and advertising.
• Designed and launched new company website resulting in increased monthly clients/revenue.
• Mobilized team to produce project deliverables on time, under budget, and while contributing with hands on design.
• Innovated production of original music for video projects personally composing 40+ pieces of music.
October 2014 - August 2017 North Carolina, United States

Hope Community Church

Video Producer, Lead Designer

Recruited for video production department with promotion to Graphics/Motion Designer. Responsible for graphics and motion design, animation content, writing, directing, filming, producing, colorizing, and finalizing short films and animations for weekend experiences across all campuses and departments. Produced 10-40 pieces of graphic content per week for video, websites, social media, and print, and liasoned vendor relations.
November 2013 - November 2014 North Carolina, United States

EducateVia360

Creative & Marketing Consultant

Recruited to oversee and develop company strategy and assist with marketing and production expansion. Designed and coded interactive virtual field trips, created and solidified marketing strategies and target audiences, and assisted in expanding interactive experiences with educational games and highlighted vistas of interest.
2012 - 2013 North Carolina, United States

Awards

American Advertising Federation (AAF) - ADDY Awards

Judge's Choice in craft for "High Five Keynote Speakers" video

2017

American Advertising Federation (AAF) - ADDY Awards

Silver Addy in internet commercial for “High Five Keynote Speakers" video

2017

American Advertising Federation (AAF) - ADDY Awards

Bronze Addy in music for “A Dash More” Town of Fuquay-Varina video

2016

American Advertising Federation (AAF) - ADDY Awards

Silver Addy in music for “How To Pun Off Monsters” Amazing Studios video

2016

The Telly Awards

Bronze Telly in Non-Broadcast, Government for “How to Shape a Life” NCBCE motion design video

2015

Lenoir Community College

Certificate of Achievement in Photography Off- Camera Lighting

2009

Skills

Adobe, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Advertisement, After Effects, Animation, Audition Pro, Basecamp, Brand Design, Branding, Design, Dreamweaver, Email Marketing, Final Cut Pro X, Graphic Design, HTML/CSS, Identity, Illustrator, Logic Pro, Logic Pro X, Logo Design, Motion, Motion Graphics , Music Composition, Music Performance, Music Production, Photography, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Social Marketing, Sound Design, Typography, Video Production, Video Production, Web Design, Web Design, WordPress,