Welcome to your branding, creative strategy and package design workforce.
Taja Dockendorf
Principal // Creative Director // Creative Strategy
Taja’s intuitive insight, creative imagination and engaging style are the keys to her success. These talents have allowed her to build the relationships and brands that have earned Pulp+Wire its award-winning reputation for excellence. Her ability to scale these talents to match particular client needs and build a solid creative strategy has granted her both the broad perspective needed to manage multi-million dollar marketing accounts and the pinpoint vision that can focus a small client on the path to growth. Drawing on her twin degrees in Industrial and Graphic design, New York and Boston-based business experience and the entrepreneurial spirit that fueled the growth of her agency, Taja has become a conduit for the pioneering power that has helped her clients become trailblazers in their own industries as well.
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Sara Rosario
Art Director // Brand Strategist // Programming
Sara’s keen, creative eye has provided the artistic vision that’s helped shape the kind of compelling and cohesive campaigns that have earned P+W a host of print and packaging awards. With mouse and pen in hand, Sara comes well armed in expert use of the traditional and digital tools needed to paint the full spectrum of media required in any comprehensive campaign. Her innate aesthetic expertise and determination to exceed client expectations keeps her constantly searching for the ideal solution to any creative challenge. Once she’s locked onto that target, Sara won’t quit until the colors and forms she holds in her mind’s eye appear on the screen, page or package before her.
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Nicole Jacques
PR Pro // Creative Strategist // Brand Builder
Nicole’s strategic mind simply never rests. As a seasoned public relations and marketing strategist with a master’s degree in writing, she has the background and skills that allow her to execute everything from a grassroots promotion to a media-saturating PR initiative. Her support of new business launches and corporate expansions and mergers has granted her insight into shaping the kind of focused communications that can reach and motivate a huge audience. Nicole’s deep experience with public, private, and non-profit organizations ensures that she gets every penny’s worth of exposure from a PR budget, and never misses a chance for the earned media that can carry it even farther.
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Craig Sult
Programming // Officer of Compliance & Usability // Web + Mobile Developer
Craig’s brain was born to build. While other kids were stacking Legos, Craig was building web pages. His passion for systems-based design led to a degree in Leadership and Organizational Studies with a minor in Management of Information Systems. But the technological talents that allow Craig to unlock the secrets of a complex coding convention or the intricacies of a website’s optimum architecture are tempered with his keen sensitivity to the human audience for his work. This twin perspective has allowed him to develop the kind of powerful and engaging websites that have made both site traffic and online sales soar.
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Katie Bernier
Designer // Production Manager // Web + Mobile Developer
Katie’s creative curiosity is a suite thing. She spends happy hours exploring the full range of Adobe Creative Suite programs to fashion the illustrations, graphics and designs that star in P+W campaigns. Her skill in crafting eye-catching artwork is matched by the precise technical talents that allow her to adopt her work to a host of web and mobile applications. As a former teacher with a master’s in education and a degree in Digital Arts and Design, Katie’s love of learning helps cultivate P+W’s warm and collaborative environment – a place where both Katie and her work shine.
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Mattie McQuinn
New Business Enthusiast // Extreme Networker
Mattie’s energy can light up a room, fire-up a target market and ignite brand buzz. Her ability to shift gears at full speed powers her in her multiple roles as P+W’s head of new business development, extreme networking and product research. She’s put her Communications degree to good use building relationships and increasing sales for a score of national brand leaders. Mattie’s marriage of strategic and social skills, passion for people and broad network of corporate connections have served her in creating a series of dynamic marketing events that have inspired both audiences and sales.
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Karen Barlow
Business Builder // Client Advocate // Account Strategist
Karen’s sharp ear for others’ needs has earned her the trust of P+W’s clients, vendors and staff. As a seasoned marketing pro she’s able to address all of their needs, juggling more projects in a day than most of her peers touch in a month. Her broad range of local and national connections provides a robust network of corporate support for P+W initiatives. Karen excels as the multitasking marvel able to align this pool of talent’s efforts with those of the P+W staff to meet the specific needs of any client. And Karen consistently ensures that these consolidated efforts result in jobs that are delivered on time and on budget.
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Lucy Henson
Design Intern // Trend Spotter
Lucy’s artistic appetite is never quite appeased. Her hunger for creation began as a child on the beaches of Kennebunk where the riches of Maine’s coastline inspired her first forays into art. She’s grown into an accomplished graphic design student at the Maine College of Art, where her explorations in hand-lettering, color theory and printmaking are sharpening her skills and broadening her artistic perspective. Her internship at P+W is a synergistic relationship that grants her real-world design experience while keeping the P+W team in touch with a young woman poised on the crest of the next wave of creative trendsetters.