Patrick E. McLean

Creative Director, Writer, Omni-Curious

Currently

  • Writing for a Microsoft Game Studio

  • Experimenting with Human-In-The-Loop AI

  • Working on climbing 5.12

Advertising and Marketing

Award-winning advertising creative with experience on brands including

  • Red Bull

  • Duke Energy

  • Amwins

  • Transamerica

  • McDonald's

  • Charlotte Pipe and Foundry

Communications Training

Created a training/coaching method that helps executives communicate more powerfully and succinctly in the written and spoken word. Clients included:

  • Amazon

  • Duke Energy

  • LendLease

  • Palo Alto Networks

Interests

  • Economics

  • Rock Climbing

  • Martial Arts

  • Hacking Things Together in Python

  • Music

Explainer Videos

Owner of REINFORCEMENTS, a creative agency that specializes in making technical things fascinating and easy-to-understand,

Author

Award-winning author of 13 novels, including the How to Succeed in Evil series. Ghostwriter of three business books.

Podcaster (2005-2008)

Wrote, voice and produced a new essay or short story every week in a podcast called The Seanachai (storyteller in Gaelic). Was featured in the iTunes Music Store and the 1st and 2nd Edition of Podcasting for Dummies

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