Copywriter, Freelance
Writes brand campaigns across TV, radio, OOH, print, and social for clients including RWJBarnabas Health and Wesleyan University. Solo, strategic, sharp.
LucasMandell.
Late-bloomer creative with an engineer's brain. Writes ads. Reads charts. Builds agentic systems.
Experience
Index Futures Trader (/NQ), Independent
Trades Nasdaq-100 index futures intraday. Discretionary, contrarian, patient.
Senior Copywriter, Highwater
Led copy across digital, print, social, and OOH for TruFusion, Philips Medical Capital, Suez, and Philadelphia Macaroni Company, among others.
Copywriter, SmithGifford
Started as intern, finished as copywriter. Print, OOH, radio, and TV for Inova, Virtua, RWJBarnabas Health, MyEyeDr, and PETA.
Backpacker, South America
Zero itineraries, eight months, 31 overnight buses, countless memories.
Director of Sales, The Spot Experience
Led a ~20 person sales team for a luxury pet care chain across NY and CT during its PE-to-AKC acquisition arc.
Education
Community College of Philadelphia
GPA
4.0
Extra
Cofounder & VP, Econ ClubFounder & President, AI Club
Earlier
Mechanical Engineering, CCNY (Grove School of Engineering)Photography, International Center of Photography
Practice
Ads
Brand strategy, scripts, naming, voice development, long-form, technical writing.
Charts
Technical analysis, order flow, positioning.
Agents
Agentic coding and design across command line and IDEs; MCP, orchestration, custom stacks.
Else
Philadelphia Art Museum, EDM, cats, Nakashima furniture.