Tomás Custer
Artist, Strategist, and Idea Imaginer in Portland, Oregon
Tomás Custer
Artist, Strategist, and Idea Imaginer in Portland, Oregon
Creative intelligence combined with an affable, down-to-earth personality and leadership in the form of big-picture vision and nuts-and-bolts execution. I have successfully conceived, led, produced, managed, enhanced and enabled ideas across a broad range of organizations from startups to business to media to education. I innovate and solve.
In other words, I am a professional with experience and accomplishments in curation, communications, media, content, web/mobile design/development, management, production, marketing, journalism, social media, information architecture and UX/UI.
I am a curation evangelist, a strong believer in both demographics and diversity as well as a news advocate (knowledge is power).
I have a unique vision about what can be accomplished using curation from creating art to comprehensive tools. In fact, I have been curating and tinkering for over 15 years.
2000 RollaGuide.com (no longer own) - curated local directory for town in Missouri
2001 UniversityWork.com (no longer own) - curated directory of of Higher Ed Job sites
2004 Ticias.com - 2 years of Latin music news curation (no longer own)
2005 HispanicTips.com- Latino news pioneer - curation showcase (10 years + 115,000+ archive)
2011 OccupyItNews.org (no longer own) curated news for a month to explore topically/timely application of curation in this showcase
2013 SiOurHistory.com - a grand vision for curation, art and Hispanic news
2014 HispanicCount.com - Demographic Web App
2015 CannabisReader.com - comprehensive news on the fastest growing industry in the US - a showcase of curation
I am passionate about helping people as well as building and engaging communities and my work has been utilized by millions of people according to Google Analytics (not including social media impressions and engagement). I am followed by professors, journalists, media personalities, politicians, executives, professionals, teachers as well as activists, bloggers, parents, students and more.