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  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

  • Married with two boys

Codie Smith

Owner and Principal Designer

Codie’s 25-year career is founded on building and maintaining brands and public identities. Clients have included household names like Intel, FICO, GE, Schlotzsky’s, Shiner, and Austin Bergstrom Int’l Airport. Codie has also worked with industrial and technology powerhouses like Martin Marietta, Dynamic Systems, Praxair, Tokyo Electron, IEEE, and Thermon, as well as a large number of niche firms in transportation, legal, healthcare, applied technology, government and advocacy. Codie has also worked with a fair number of political officeholders and candidates. See more about Codie’s political work.

Codie is a plug-and-play team member with focused communication abilities, and the experience and intuition to distill a brand’s DNA and purpose it for any media. He has years of practical, hands-on history with nearly every aspect of marketing communications: Graphic design, branding and brand standards, printed collateral, web, mobile, HTML email, onscreen presentations, large format, advertising, trade shows, social media, apparel, and giveaways.

He actively speaks to student and professional groups, and regularly teaches courses in team development, leadership, conflict management and communications. He is an Eagle Scout and heavily involved in today’s Scouting program at the local, regional, and national levels, often leading teams of youth and adults in Scouting’s communication efforts.