Our team is composed of creative minded, forward thinkers. With solid multi-industry experience and a foundation in education…we are the real deal. In the marketing arena, it is imperative to be unconventional and practical. Our team is both. We apply a can-do attitude to every request, big or small.
Matt graduated from West Virginia University, majoring in graphic art with a special focus on photography and psychology.
A week before graduation, Matt was hired for a position as an in-house graphic artist within a twenty-five member marketing department at MeriStar Hotels & Resorts. At the time, MeriStar owned and managed over 256 resorts & hotels internationally. While at MeriStar he developed marketing material for each property along with the food & beverage outlets within them.
After 2 years in the hospitality arena, Matt set out to sharpen his skills in another industry. He was hired as an art director at Chico’s FAS, an upscale women’s retail corporation which operates over 1,000 specialty stores. At Chico’s he played an integral part in national ad campaigns and was responsible for point-of-purchase creative materials for all stores and outlets.
In early 2002 Matthew left the security of a salaried position with benefits to venture forth on his own. Boost Creative was successfully born!
Years later, Boost is still a thriving company that welcomes a broad range of new clients. Boost has had feature articles written about them in the News-Press success story column and the business spotlight section of CapeCoral.com
Matt’s specialty is brand identity and advertising concepts. He is actively involved in the Cape Coral Chamber of Commerce, serving on the board of directors and education committee. He also serves on the board of directors for the Gulf Coast Symphony. In 2013, he co-founded Taste of the Cape, which is a collaborative effort between both organizations.
Additionally, Matt was selected as one of Gulfshore Business Magazine’s top 40 under Forty business professionals. He was also recognized in 2015 as board member of the year for the Cape Coral Chamber. He currently resides in Cape Coral with his wife and four children.
Melissa was born and raised in the small town of Washingtonville, New York. After high school she moved to Florida to pursue her passion for art at Ringling College of Art and Design and in 2012 graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts with a focus in Graphic Design. Within just a month of graduation, Melissa joined BOOST where she gets to do what she loves everyday.
Melissa currently resides in Buckingham with her husband, son and 2 labrador retrievers. She loves Sunday dinners with the family, going snowboarding up north, and spending time outdoors.
I was born in Three Bridges, NJ, but moved shortly after being born to Oklahoma, then Kansas, and finally Georgia when I was nine years old. I grew up in Atlanta and went to high school in Marietta, GA. During high school, I taught myself how to build my first website while being an avid video gamer. I also played baseball for 10 years and marched on the drumline, playing bass drum. I graduated in 2006 and moved to Birmingham, AL to attend Samford University, where I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design in the fall of 2011. I gained a great knowledge of art history, traditional print design, and web design. As time went on I realized that I was more interested in the digital aspect of design. I enjoy making static designs come to life on the screen and web.
Two weeks after graduating college, I began working as an Interactive Designer at a small web design company in Birmingham for the next two years, increasing my knowledge and skills of design and development. After a while, I was in need of a big change in my life. I started looking for a new job, and was lucky enough to find BOOST. I accepted the job and moved down to Fort Myers in April 2014.
I love to go fishing on the weekends, as well as eat at all the different local restaurants around town. I enjoy cooking, playing drums, and listening to live music. I’m a huge Atlanta Braves fan and love to play baseball. Photography and video are also other big passions of mine that I like to work on in my spare time.
Addicted to fishing
Secretly a master chef
Has a scar down his stomach from a shark attack
I’m a Floridian since childhood, when my family left Michigan to live first in Miami, then in the Fort Myers area. My introduction to web development came via Flash and Dreamweaver as a student at Fort Myers High School, but I decided to set that aside to pursue a degree in history at Florida Gulf Coast University.
While in college I worked at a local travel agency and helped them get their first site online. It wasn’t the prettiest thing ever, to put it mildly, but it felt great to help the company take a step forward. From there I started researching more modern methods of web development and made some cool things, like a client database for the travel agency, and a tool for nonprofits to build their own websites with donation functionality. I would create things I thought people might like, release them for free on open source focused websites, and hope somebody got some good use out of it. Through this process I got feedback from more accomplished people and was able to learn from their work. Eventually I decided on making career of it, and that has become reality at Boost Creative.
Madi was born and raised suburbs of Washington, DC, growing up in the northern Virginia area. After graduating high school, she attended Radford University in southwest Virginia. While in school, Madi took a special interest in digital marketing and how tools such as social media and paid search advertising can reach audiences in ways traditional marketing cannot. Madi graduated with her Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing, with a concentration in Analytics, in 2015.
After college, Madi worked in the northern Virginia area for a small business and later a trade association as part of their in-house marketing teams. On the side, she also assisted various small businesses in the area with their social media and search engine marketing strategies, helping them grow their online presence exponentially. Through this experience, Madi decided that she needed to make the switch from in-house marketing to a creative firm where she could better hone in on her talents in digital marketing. It just happened that at that same time, her fiancé’s work had relocated to Fort Myers. The stars aligned and Boost offered her a position, to which she gladly accepted. Madi is very excited to be a part of the team at Boost and looks forward to helping clients expand their businesses through digital marketing.
Madi now lives in Fort Myers with her fiancé and their shepherd-husky mix, Max. Outside of work, she enjoys teaching various styles of dance at a local dance studio in Fort Myers. She is an avid DC sports fan, loves all things Disney, and is excited to live where it never snows.
Hannah was born in Cuttack, India. Her short stay there lasted until she was adopted and brought to sunny Florida. Hannah has since lived in Florida and graduated high school in 2013.
She went on to pursue her Bachelor in Fine Arts at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. In school she designed logos and brand manuals for startup companies nearby. After graduating she moved back to southwest Florida to begin her career and was lucky enough to find Boost. She is happy to be working alongside fellow creatives and is eager to learn everything she can.
In her spare time she enjoys gaming, writing and reading. She also has an interest in miniatures and unresolved mysteries.
Chris was born and raised in Oviedo, the suburbs of Orlando, FL. He was raised on a computer since childhood, having interests in video games, websites, photography, and all things digital. Throughout his primary school years, Chris actively participated in sports like basketball, baseball, soccer, and cross country. After High School, he attended Valencia Community College to receive his AA degree then attended the University of Central Florida to receive his degree in Digital Media with a focus in web design.
Throughout his college experience, Chris had a number of jobs and internships, such as Pizza Store Manager, Marketing Analytics Intern, WordPress Developer Intern, Software Researcher, and Web Freelancer. He spent his senior year of college freelancing, then a few months after graduation he was very fortunate to become a member of the BOOST Creative team in April of 2019. After happily accepting this position, Chris moved down to the Ft. Myers area with his girlfriend.
When Chris isn’t working at BOOST he likes to spend his time working on personal web projects, playing video games, taking pictures, exercising, listening to music of all genres, and playing the piano.
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