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James Trumbly
Marketing Director, CEO
As the Founder of Hometown Marketing Group, Inc., James is responsible for strategic planning and overall project management.
After serving 4 years in the United States Marine Corps, James left the ranks as a Sergeant. Shortly thereafter he completed his degree in Social Psychology from Park University. During this process, James realized his passion for understanding individuals and had a strong desire to help business owners overcome the dilemmas of marketing their business and the costs involved with that. In July 2004, James developed an online community portal for North County residents (411NorthCounty.com) which gives merchants a way to advertise throughout their local communities without spending all their profits. While doing this he realized that there was a need for a marketing firm that was truly a One-Stop-Shop and expanded his company, HMG, into a full service marketing firm. James has surrounded himself with a solid group of individuals that are relentless in their client’s successes, they are known as the Hometown Marketing Team.
"Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
Vince Lombardi - Hall of Fame Football Coach
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Melissa Trumbly
Director of Sales, Executive Officer
Melissa is the Director of Sales and is also responsible for accounts payable/ receivable.
With over 10 years of experience in sales, Melissa has joined Hometown Marketing Group with a vision of taking the business to the next level. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in High Technology Management from Cal State San Marcos. Melissa has been surrounded by entrepreneurs her whole life with several family businesses and recently married into one!
“Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts”
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Kim Carlson
Creative Director
Kim is a long-time San Diego resident and graduated from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Fine Arts.She began her design career at well-respected software publisher Aldus Corporation (later Adobe Systems) working on everything from packaging and software interface design to advertising, brochures and documentation. Later, Kim transitioned to Upper Deck, makers of collectible trading cards where she worked on high-end products for NHL hockey, NASCAR, Warner Bros., and the Olympics.
Kim has done agency work locally with the McQuerter Group, and led corporate design at the Sweet Factory chain of retail candy stores for 8 years.
Kim brings to Hometown Marketing Group a smart design sense, cheery attitude, and a strong work ethic. She loves the creative process and is adept at managing multiple priorities (including James, Bert, her husband, two kids and two Viszlas!). |
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Richard Zarate
Interactive/ Media Director
Richard’s aesthetic and design direction began in 1987 working for a predominate civil engineering company here in San Diego. Working in the Specialized services division for the next 13 years, he developed and was in charge of the print advertising, marketing, tradeshow, and internet design for the entire array of 8 offices and their clients from Arizona, California, Colorado and Nevada. In addition to the job duties of corporate marketing, his duties included 3D visualizations for civil engineering plans for presentation on CD-Rom and city planning meetings.
In 1999, Richard left to complete his 4-year degree in marketing and multimedia design. As a graduate to the Art Institute of California - San Diego, he solidified worked upon the knowledge learned in the corporate entity and now provides high-end solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Here is a cross section of Art Direction in creative capacities such as direct mail design, corporate identity/collateral materials, Internet (design, interactivity and maintenance), multimedia (DVD, CD-ROM and packaging), video (compression and editing) and specialized digital photography. National clientele: Apex Digital, Brookfield Zoo, U.S.S. Rushmore and La Mesa RV, Regional clientele: Jazz 88 (88.3), CSUSM Psychology Department and Taste of Italy, Inc.
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Bert Chiu
Design Guru
Bert's talents were evident when he was a toddler doodling on sketchpads and drooling on countertops. Always having an interest in design and three-dimensional form, he started out playing with Legos and ended up designing cars for Nissan and Mazda. Upon leaving the traditional corporate world, he succumbed to the call of the dotcom craze and employed his trusty Mac computer to clients in the high-tech sector during the "Big Boom", or "Bust" - depending on how you viewed the era.
Equally versed in traditional design as with the modern digital mediums, Bert brings over a decade of varied design experience to HMG.
Having owned a promotional products business during the mid-90s, Bert has designed graphics for clients from the automotive industry to zoological associations. With skills in both print and web design, his focus is on high-end creativity for HMG clients; but he also delves into the entrepreneurial realm with personal projects that challenge his expertise and multi-disciplinary background.
His goal as the Design Guru with HMG is to take the company to the pinnacle of design expertise, raising the bar of creativity for its many valued clients. In the short time he has been part of the company, this metamorphosis has already begun to take root, and the growth will be even more evident in the coming year. In addition to design, Bert also enjoys piano improvisation, scratch model-building and architectural design. |
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