I'm Dalton Runberg, a multidisciplinary digital media everything-doer with experience in brand marketing, content management, graphic design, and many forms of writing. In my most recent stint as a contractor at Google, I managed brand permissions and led the content strategy for the company’s new Brand Resource Center.

I’m currently looking for new opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, or remote.

In my spare time I'm a competitive Dance Dance Revolution player and serve as co-host and producer for a bi-weekly podcast called The Arrow Panel about the game and its players. I also do community branding work, help stream tournaments, and volunteer for multiple community projects to grow interest and encourage more people to play and compete.

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BACKGROUND & EDUCATION

I grew up in Fresno, California before making my move north to the Bay Area. I began to teach myself Photoshop in middle school as a way to create my own background art for custom Dance Dance Revolution step files. This passion lead me to enroll in the Center for Advance Research and Technology's multimedia lab in high school to prepare myself for a career in digital arts. I then attended Fresno State, where I graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communication & Journalism, specializing in digital media. During my time there, I served as webmaster and then editor-in-chief for the campus' student-run newspaper, The Collegian, where my team and I received numerous awards for writing and design.

In my professional career, I spent years working in digital content and marketing for iHeartRadio, which afforded me the chance to meet some cool celebrities in between writing blogs, doing graphic design work, managing social media channels, and running website analytics reports… plus a whole lot of other things. Most recently I spent two years as a contractor at Google, where I developed brand guidelines, reviewed brand usage in TV & film, and became way too aware of incorrect branding that exists in the wild (the serif logo was retired more than half a decade ago, yet still persists).