"dubuzz" is the commercial name for my freelance activity.
My name is Lewis Wingrove, and I'm a freelance copywriter and web consultant since 2001. As you might have guessed, I'm kind of english. Born in the UK, I lived there for 8 years, before moving to France. I have the dual nationality (UK/FR), and a British passport.

I'm willing to work with foreign companies wishing to approach the french market. In this case, I can be a "sharp" creative partner to adapt/localize communication messages towards a french target.

JOB EXPERIENCE

Basically, I have 2 big "blocks" of experience of around 15 years each:

• One in advertising, as a copywriter or creative director
• One in Internet activities, as webmaster, founder of a webagency, and web consultant.

(since 2002)
dubuzz.com (freelance)

Web project management, e-marketing, copywriting for advertising and web. Clients : advertising agencies, web agencies, companies

(97/01)
Founder and creative director webagency ZawStudio

• Internet start-up created in october 1997
• Recruitment and management of creative teams
• Creative management of clients’ projects
• Content management and copywriting
• In charge of the agency’s promotion (PR, advertising)
• Major accounts: Adecco, Alstom, Aventis Pasteur, Cap Gemini, Cegid, Essilor, Go Sport, Grand Lyon, Infoconcert.com, Infogrames (ATARI), Lever, MBK, Mc Donald's, Opéra de Lyon, Rhodia, Schneider Electric, Yahoo! France…

(94/97)Webmaster and communication manager, Infogrames/Atari

• Creator and Webmaster of the first version of Infogrames corporate website (1995)

In charge of:

• web-design, content management, updates, product modules, promotion.
• communication for product launches (video games & multimedia programs)
• Strategy, PR, mediaplanning, in collaboration with marketing department
• Creative management, copywriting

Many product launch campaigns supervised: Sim City, Alone in the Dark, Prisoner of Ice. Production of a corporate CD Rom.

(91/94)
Freelance copywriter

Clientele of advertising agencies and companies

(89/91)
Senior copywriter agency Jump-BDDP

• Several creativity awards for campaigns I conceived (radio, print, poster, …)
• Major accounts: Beaujolais wines, Lustucru, Björg, BMW, Adecco, Angénieux, Casio, Laboratoires Boiron,…

(86/89)
Creative Director, agency Prominter

Reorganization of the creative department to stimulate the agency’s creative image.

• Recruitment and management of new creative teams.
• The agency received several creativity awards (87-88) and was awarded Agency of the year in 1987
• In charge of the agency’s communication (PR, advertising)
• Major accounts: Kelly, Mutasudest, Vision StreetWear, Karting, Floriane, France Air, Credit Agricole, Lyonnaise de Banque,…

(82/86)
Copywriter J. WALTER THOMPSON agency and CAPRICORNE agency

• Major accounts: Look, Duret, Cofradel, Rockwool, Sopexa, Rossignol (ski & tennis), Black & Decker, Val Thorens, Lombardini,…

PERSONAL ACTIVITIES

Blogging, writing.

In 2005 I issued a blog (JNSM) relating my one year experience on a dating site (Meetic). The blog was a huge succes, with 500 000 visitors and over 2,5 million page views in 5 months. It had quite a big media coverage, and I was contacted by several editors to publish a book about the experience. I wrote the final manuscript in 5 months, and the book was published in october 2005 (Robert Laffont). It was adapted as a radio serie for a Swiss radio, and I wrote 50 2mn episodes, and did the voice. I also published 2 humoristic comics about online dating, as a scenarist, and wrote a pitch for a sitcom on the same theme. I am now ABSOLUTELY fed up with the subject, and will move on to something else on my new writing projects. ;-)

>read more: http://www.nickblog.org
> article in The Times

Musical blind-tests (quiz)

I love musical blind-tests, and do quite a lot as a DJ, and also as a contestant. I'm quite good, because eclectic. And I love the "musical archeology" that's necessary to prepare a cool playlist. I organise on a regular basis blindtest partys in Lyon, as a 'BJ".
I recently opened a blog on the subject: http//blindtest.org.

Other good resasons to work with dubuzz.

A strong « web-culture »

• Online and producing web-content since 1995
• 10 years experience in interactive entertainment & communication (Atari, web-agencies..)
• Strong sense of what makes interactive communication work
• Creative direction and project management for over 75 corporate web-sites
• « Hands-on » experience of web production (several personal web-sites created and maintained)
• Good knowledge of interactive technologies: HTML, Flash, PHP, Javascript, etc..

Conceptual and writing skills.

• Good conceptual and writing skills (French & English)
• Strong copywriting background, for a wide range of accounts
• Consistent experience of creative management (advertising & web)

Bi-cultural (French/English)

• Born in the U.K, where I lived for 8 years
• Dual nationality, British passport
• Bilingual French/English (TOEIC test : 960/990)
• Willing to work in an motivating international environment