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Rich Miller | Senior Public Relations Manager
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Rich Miller has provided public relations and business communications services to more than 70 companies through his work at leading agencies in Colorado and on the East Coast for the past 11 years. Rich maintains GroundFloor Media’s presence in the Pacific Northwest, working from Portland, Ore. and has worked with numerous GroundFloor Media clients in the technology sector including CH2M HILL Managed Services, Market Force Information, Fuser, MX Logic, TeleTech, StarTek and ASNA.
Rich specializes in managing market-building communications activities for technology companies, and his other clients in the IT industry have included companies such as DigitalGlobe, Mobility Electronics, USA.NET, Digital Realty Trust, Space Imaging, Exabyte, Eaton Semiconductor, Sandlot Corporation, Secure64, Artemis Management Systems, USA.net, Systemation, Research Systems Inc., SightSpeed, Tendril Networks, Rogue Wave Software, Avidyne Avionics, E Ink and MathSoft.
This breadth of experience has given Rich an in-depth working knowledge of the business trends and PR challenges of nearly every sector of the IT industry, including fields such as managed IT services, enterprise software, operating systems, social networking technologies, datacenters, mobile computing, data storage, financial software, satellite imaging, venture funding, component software, project management software, IT consulting, application services, avionics, enterprise messaging solutions, encryption, open source software, semiconductor equipment, statistical software, applications services, videoconferencing technology and display technology.
Rich has also provided strategic and tactical PR services to companies in a wide range of other industries including financial services, university research, food & beverage, sports marketing, marketing promotions and the non-profit field.
Prior to joining GroundFloor Media, Rich worked for Schwartz Communications, one of the largest and most respected technology PR agencies on the East Coast, and Metzger Associates, a Colorado-based technology PR firm. Rich’s work has earned clients corporate awards, such as the Best of COMDEX Award for best new technology, and his work has also been recognized with numerous PR industry awards, including PRSA’s “Gold Pick” award, The BMA Gold Key Award, The Sabre Award and the Communicator Award.
Rich graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from prestigious Bowdoin
College in Maine where he earned degrees in economics and German. In his free
time, he enjoys woodworking, listening to Red Sox baseball games over the
Internet, spending time with his wife and two kids and their Great Dane Sophie.
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Tech Junkie
A true jack-of-all-trades, Massachusetts-born, Florida-bred, Rich Miller lived a childhood filled with fabulous friends and magical memories. From summers at his family’s farm in Portugal to marrying into the Dunkin Donuts dynasty, one might think that he might go on to live an entitled existence. Not Rich. He tackled high school with a vengeance and went on to tackle other high-schoolers as the captain of the football team. But don’t let that stereotype fool you. Our pigskin puppeteer also enjoyed a passion for furniture-making, baking and collecting old, noir pulp fiction magazines from the 20s and 30s.
College brought no downtime for young Rich. The eldest of four, Rich was the first on both sides of his family to go to college. But instead of running plays on the football field, he chose to run the campus film society. Always a realist, he chose to lead the group toward domestic film; cinematically significant, not just “artsy.” But those “rowdy” college days are long gone, and Rich now turns his passion toward his titles of husband and father.
He’s reminiscent of his days in Florida as a young lad, where he won the sand-sculpting competition, his sculpture landing on the evening news. Basically, his first taste of media relations left a little grit in his gums – lucky for us because since 2002 he’s been grinding out the media hits for GroundFloor Media’s tech clients.
He prefers his down time to be drenched in Italian wine, American beer or Canadian ginger ale (oh wait – that’s said “Canada Dry”). So if you can find another sandcastle-building, film-loving, furniture-making, football captain, baker with a Portuguese past and a Dunkin Donuts legacy who likes blue dots, we’d like to meet him. Until then, we’ll stick with Rich!
Top Five:
On the iPod: the B52s, Spoon, Radiohead, Lily Allen and 80s movies soundtracks
Pet Peeve: The Yankees. Yankees fans. Yankees merchandise.
Collections: Umbrellas (Rich heads up our Portland office!)
Guilty Pleasure: YouTube videos of men getting hit in a place where only men can get hit
The Inside Scoop: Neil Diamond is also on his iPod
