Travis Chambers

Digital Strategist

OutpostX

We build Outposts where travelers gather at the edge of civilization. 

Imagine hotel meets theme park meets airbnb. That’s OutpostX. An immersive experience unlike anything else. 

Our Utah location has been open 1.5 years with 87% occupancy, 120M social media views, 600k website visitors and features in all the regional and design press.

We’re building 10 Outposts with one in development in Rincon, Puerto Rico and the next project will be a Viking Village.

Founder, Chief Experience Designer

Stack

Angel Investor

Chamber.Media

$17M Exit 2021. 
Solo founded company with no capital or investors, bootstrapped 100% growth 7 years in a row to 125 employees, $14M/yr, Inc 5000 fastest growing companies. Sold majority to PE group Kirtland Capital Partners. 
Chamber.Media was the world leader in data centric video ads, with over 4,000 productions, $100M in managed spend, and $800M in tracked revenue, massively scaling direct to consumer e-commerce companies, tripling the revenue of 5 multi-million dollar brands and taking MrCool from $10M/yr to $100M/yr in 3 years.

Chief Media Hacker, Founder

Twentieth Century Fox

Directed social media teams on the following feature films/theatrical for 20th Century Fox:
-Gone Girl
-Let's Be Cops
-Kingsman: Secret Service
-Night at the Museum 3
When I was 11-years-old I told my parents I wanted to be the guy who made commercials for movies. Weird flex. Then at 26-years-old I got that dream job and realized it wasn't my dream after all, and started Chamber.Media, which turns out, is my dream job.

Director of Social Media

Crispin Porter Bogusky

I've supervised a social media team on vitaminwater, Old Navy, A.1. Steak Sauce and Triscuit and worked on strategy and consulting for Aspen Dental, Milka and the Free Birds movie among others. 

I designed the marketing plan at CP+B for a Turkish Airlines YouTube video, Kobe vs. Messi: the Selfie Shootout, which garnered 120,000,000 views and 500,000+ shares in 11 days, 136MM views and 950k+ shares in 6 weeks, the new most viewed commercial online of all time, viewed more than twice as much as Old Spice What Your Man Could Smell Like. Won AdAge Viral Video Award for Most Viral Celebrity Spot.

Consulted on script and strategy for A.1. Sauce New Friend Requests viral video, garnered 1.3 million views. Grew Old Navy Facebook page from 2 to 8 million likes.

Social Media Supervisor

Xylem Inc.

Conducted global marketing campaigns for $4B Xylem Analytics $15M/yr WaterLOG brand.

-Redesigned Waterlog marketing and packaging materials, adhering to new corporate branding directives.
-Established and curated social media presence on major platforms
-Web page UX/conversion optimizations, calls to action doubling lead generation in first two weeks 
-Re-wrote product copy for web, shifting focus from features to benefits
-Designed product landing pages for increased lead generation
-Implemented system for managing and nurturing leads
-Optimized email campaigns for maximum CTR
-Researched and implemented product keywords, increasing relevant traffic, organic SEO
-Researched and named new product, "Storm Central," cloud/software program for Storm 3
-Designed logo and branding for Storm 3, new product
-Lead nurturing via marketing automization software Marketo

Marketing Communications Manager

Mountain Force MMA

I created the first Mixed Martial Arts(MMA) Sporting Event Series/Promotion in Cache Valley, Utah, advertising on social media, print, interactive, events, radio, and TV, drawing crowds of 1,500+, now called Mountain Force MMA with dozens of events, 9 years running. It has grown to events in multiple cities in the Rocky Mountains region and is one of the main growing grounds for up and coming fighters, some of which have ended up in the UFC. In the beginning I handled all facets of the business myself- health insurance, bonds, licensing, media placements, PR, web development, sales, signing fighters and managing a 15 person staff at events. 
I Partnered with Olympic Gold Medalist Rulon Gardner for branding. We produced $52,000 in ticket sales, sold-out our venue, were on the front page of Herald Journal and Utah Statesman. 
I sold the promotion in August 2012 to focus on other endeavors.

Founder

IQ Agency

I constructed a social media plan for an online quiz celebrating the web's 20th anniversary for visibility with potential clients. I developed a newsworthy story around the quiz and seeded it to bloggers, Twitter influencers, journalists, publications and researchers. 

My organic strategy led to 130,000 page views in 10 days with no media spend. This quiz assisted IQ Agency in being named a top 100 Social Media Agency by Forbes. 

It was featured by Chris Coyier (also tweeted) on CSS-Tricks.com, the Atlanta, Houston, Orlando and San Francisco Egotists, tweeted by Robert Scoble (200,000+ followers), featured on stumbleupon.com, 20kaido.com (Japan), elwebmaster.com, webdesignerdepot.com, efectosocial.net, and conecti.ca to name a few. 

Copywriting

Draft press releases about new campaigns, client affairs, new technology product and app releases and also content for the Web IQ Quiz, blogs, IQ's twitter accounts, and marketing emails.

Utah Prep Star

I sourced, booked and managed clients for ad space in a regional sports print publication- I hired, trained and managed 9 sales managers throughout the state, designed and conducted recruitment presentations and managed publication distribution to communities throughout Utah.

Advertising Sales Manager

Bountiful Painting

I built a painting company with 25 clients and three crews, producing $60,000 in a summer. This was a challenging but good experience with a low profit margin and great lessons in growing a business.

Owner

Bootstrapped Chamber.Media to $14M/yr, sold it for $17M. Built hotel Outpostx, sold out first location before opening, has been open a year with 90% occupancy, 70M views, 90k emails, 500k site visitors, booked out perpetually 5 months in advance. Accredited investors dm me on Instagram @travis_chambers

Building experience hotels in Utah, Puerto Rico, and Idaho @chamberstays. ChamberStays.com

Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018)

$17M Exit 2021 (Chamber.Media, 2 time Inc 5000 fastest growing companies) 

-Solo founded Chamber.Media with no capital or investors, bootstrapped 100% growth 7 years in a row to 125 employees, $14M/yr, Inc 5000 and Utah 100 fastest growing companies.
-Sold majority to PE group Kirtland Capital Partners. -Chamber.Media was the world leader in data centric video ads, with over 4,000 productions, $300M in managed spend, and $1B in tracked revenue, massively scaling direct to consumer e-commerce companies, tripling the revenue of 5 multi-million dollar brands and taking MrCool from $10M/yr to $100M/yr in 3 years. 

Ads writing workshop 
www.travischambers.com 

Keynote speaker at Google Growth Summit, VidCon, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Featured in Inc, Entrepreneuer, AdWeek, HuffPo, among others.

In 2013 led distribution and content strategy for "YouTube's #1 Ad of the Decade," Kobe vs. Messi with 140 million views at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Past work, Yahoo, Kraft, Old Navy, Coca-Cola, Mondelez, Amazon. Took Old Navy from 2M to 8M Facebook followers.

Features:
Forbes 30 Under 30: https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2018/marketing-advertising/#1031d93cbcc6
https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/advertising-channels/video/direct-consumer-response-marketing/
Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/your-2018-marketing-strategy-should-bet-heavily-on_us_5a0e2801e4b023121e0e911f
Hootsuite: https://blog.hootsuite.com/viral-video-dead/
AdWeek: http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/crazy-entertaining-skincare-ad-throws-everything-you-see-what-will-stick-174501
Youngry: https://youngry.com/creator-top-ad-century-reveals-built-5m-video-agency/

100% growth 7 years in a row to 125 employees, and the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies. Added PE group Kirtland Partners in 8 figure deal as we continue doubling every year. Chamber.Media is the world leader in data centric video ads, with over 4,000 productions, $100M in managed spend, and $800M in tracked revenue, massively scaling direct to consumer e-commerce companies, tripling the revenue of 5 multi-million dollar brands and taking MrCool from $10M/yr to $100M/yr in 3 years. 

Chamber.Media has pricing options for every size of company and owns 6packadscourse.com/go, a DIY video course, and UnicornAds.com, an AI powered database that studies thousands of ads with neural nets, identifying what creative converts to diagnose what ads to make. Learn more at www.chamber.media.

Brigham Young University - Idaho

Teaching Online Data Science, Machine Learning and Data Mining.

Adjunct Professor

Slalom

Sr. Data Scientist 

Between The Data

Helping small & medium-sized business save time & money AND make money just by harnessing data they already have.

Data can help you if you have one or more of the following:
- You have something that records information to be used later
- You serve other people
- You have a business and are curious how to:
1) Learn what your customers are telling you
2) Increase your profits
3) Improve your operations
4) Find additional opportunities 
5) Answer questions about your business that have previously been unanswered

Owner & Chief Analyst

Insight

Serving clients by:
- Unlocking solutions using their data
- Answering questions about their business, their customers and the market using their data & ancillary data sources
- Orchestrating data to ensure data is up-to-date and highly available
- Developing tools to help them make their decisions as quickly as possible without having to worry about technology overhead
- Developing data strategy for large & small teams and companies
- Creating highly performant & engaging visualizations 
- Training teams on long-term support

Some technical items:
-Creating data pipelines utilizing SPARK structure within Azure 
-Development of data architecture within Databricks
-Developing SPARK and other ML models (Scikit-Learn)
-Data Warehouse development for stream-lined reporting
-Bi work within python and Power BI
-Python, PySpark, SQL & Spark-SQL

Data Scientist Sr.

Helping customers understand and visualize their data. Using a toolbelt of skills ranging from database semantic layer design, data warehousing, data science techniques (Clustering, Text Analysis, Regression, Random Forest, Neural Networks, etc.), and visualization tools to unlock greater understanding and opportunities within companies.
Other ways I serve:
-Data Engineering
-Ideation for data projects

Data Analyst + Data Scientist

- Leading solicitations, documenting and managing of both business and functional requirements.

- Managing relationships and balancing priorities of business and development

- Discovering process gaps and leading team in resolution scenarios

-Gathering and analyzing data to find unique and key insights to drive business opportunities and decisions

Business Architect

Senior Business Analyst

Marvelous Mouse Travels

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Travel Agent

Cardinal Solutions

- Lead Business Analyst supporting a team of business analysts and Product Owners in a diversity of financial industry and retirement products.

- Member of implementation team standing-up segment's Data Governance initiative.

Senior II Consultant

-Developing Data Governance process and implementing throughout an organization. Currently developing strategy and taking distinct data elements through Governance process, publishing company-wide definitions, implementing specific controls, and remediating bad data.

-Mentor to new and developing Business Analyst, assist them in their career aspirations and help with their day-to-day needs as well.

-Develop in-house initiatives for career development and consultant recognition.

Senior I Consultant

Business Analyst consultant with experience in discovering, gathering, documenting and writing requirements within an Agile workplace.

Experience Includes-
Data Analyst:
Research, discover, map, and document touch points of financial data within the institution. Analyze current controls and regulations, work with business teams to determine further governance needed, and assist in the development of controls.

Product Owner:
Own financial application conducting over a Billion dollars of transactions annually. Partner with business and IT to gather and document requirements, create design and process of application with end user in mind. Managing resources and teams to develop, build, and test financial applications. Triage problems and create solutions with end users in mind. Conduct blind testing of applications prior to deployment. Assist with rollout of application to customers.

Staff II Consultant

Product Owner:
Own financial application conducting over a Billion dollars of transactions annually. Partner with business and IT to gather and document requirements, create design and process of application with end user in mind. Managing resources and teams to develop, build, and test financial applications. Triage problems and create solutions with end users in mind. Conduct blind testing of applications prior to deployment. Assist with rollout of application to customers.

User Acceptance Testing Coordinator:
Wrote and led the writing of test scripts. Led multiple teams in the testing and triaging on different system testing simultaneously. Reporting to leadership on progress. Coordinating with developers on errors and defects found and prioritizing fixes with business.

Associate II Consultant

Disney Parks & Resorts

Analyzing, testing and maintaining new software application responsible for automating front-line employee training proficiencies at all domestic parks.

Managing partnerships and competing project priorities with developers and business team to ensure project is delivered on-time and on-budget.

Creating detailed operational documentation of and training for new application to be used by sustainment team.

Project Specialist

Walt Disney World

Assisted with roll-out of MagicBand technology and experience to park Guests. Performed and staffed on-stage triage locations to assist Guest's full end-to-end experience. Shared feedback and requirements to technology teams about back-end and front-end applications and improvements.

Resolve Guest’s vacation complications by wielding multiple software platforms, resulting in timely and complete resolution.

Use past and current partnerships to assist efficiencies in environmentality. Sit on environmental team.

Guest Relations

Communicated and updated 8,000+ Walt Disney World Cast of changing procedures and new initiatives by managing 8+ weekly articles and fliers, using print and web vehicles, while successfully meeting tight deadlines, being detail oriented, keeping engagement, and analyzing results of communication.

Partnered with leaders from all lines of business to increase conservation efforts at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Exceeded corporate goals by reducing energy consumption by 13%.

Crafted compelling and informative presentations for regular meetings with general managers, vice president as well as initiatives with front-line Cast. Presentations were used in achieving environmental goals and helping transition to Disability Access Services (DAS) card now used in all parks.

Consulted with area managers to increase safety awareness within attractions. Created new safety oriented article series for Park Operations and saw tactics successfully implemented in attraction operations.

Internal Communication Intern

Independent Consultant

Consulted with local movie theater to increase sales. Analyzed social media indicators (likes, reach, engagement) and used Excel regression analysis to developed a no-expense marketing change emphasis that led to a record year in sales.

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