Last Updated Jan, 2023. Check out my LinkedIn here. Contact at michael@mevansinked.com.
CEO and Co-Founder Ream | Harvard Student | 12x Published Sci-Fi Books
Skills:
Digital Advertising: over $20k in profitable spend on Facebook and Amazon ads.
Marketing/Operations: Have operated three of my own boot-strapped businesses with various partners utilizing paid marketing channels, organic marketing, managing cash flow, and contractors.
Video Editing: 400+ hours of editing in Final Cut Pro, PS, and Luminar including dozens of YouTube videos and podcasts.
Social Media: Robust experience on TikTok, YouTube, and podcasting with millions of organic views across platforms.
UX/UI Design: have built 3 websites and helped to design https://ream.ink
Product Management: worked as part of the co-founding team of Ream to help create and execute the product vision and strategy.
Storytelling: from over a million words published to pitching start-ups in front of investors, this is my greatest strength.
Work Experience
Boundless Press/ Science Fiction Author/Founder/CEO January 2017 – Today https://mevansinked.com
12 novels published and counting with thousands of copies sold. I write novels about technologies gone wrong in the near future. My published series include World Gone Mad, Conspiracy Chronicles, and the Control Freakz Series.
Ream/ CEO and Co-Founder March 2022 – Today: https://ream.ink
The subscription platform by fiction authors for fiction authors. We also operate a media brand at Subscriptions for Authors (subscriptionsforauthors.com). We have 1200+ authors in our community and have bootstrapped to profitable growth.
Peek/ Head of Marketing and Creators November 2021 – January 2022 https://joinpeek.io
I worked directly with the CEO of Peek to develop product vision, marketing strategy, and creator relations/community. Our mission is to make reading social and bring web3 to the reading experience. Techstars ’21 and backed by some of the biggest names in reading.
Kimera/ Chief Executive Officer/Co-Founder January 2021 – August 2021 https://getkimera.com/
I led the technology start-up Kimera, working to lead the product vision, marketing, and deeply inform the strategy and operations of the enterprise. A creator economy start-up focused on curated discovery for digital creators and building the home for creators online through a central place to view content and funnel audiences. Stopped working on this project to focus more on the creator economy for books.
Creators Legal/ Creator Ambassador and Outreach January 2022 – April 2022 https://creatorslegal.com
I worked directly with the CEO and Founder Eric Farber to advise him on marketing Creators Legal and outreach to creators and college networks of student creators.
Boundless Media LLC/ Chief Executive Officer/Founder October 2020 – June 2020
I co-founded this company to produce digital media content. We traveled the country (road-tripped over 10,000 miles) and filmed over 40 hours of content. In total, our videos have amassed several million views across platforms and have managed a production team with as much as 5 people combined.
Consulting/ Freelance August 2021- Today
Have worked on copywriting and marketing for start-ups like Gigpro.
Have helped 5+ students get into Ivy League schools through essay editing/consulting services.
Publishing/Writing Experience:
Young Eager Writers/ Marketing/Entertainment Coordinator and Keynote Speaker February 2019 – Today https://youngeagerwriters.org
I volunteer my time for this organization and love every minute of it!
Self Publishing Formula / Auditor and Consultant December 2019 – March 2020 and November 2022 – January 2023 https://selfpublishingformula.com/
I walked on stage after Mark Dawson’s keynote in Las Vegas and asked for an internship. Audited all of his courses and provided feedback on product vision for the future of SPF, a business to educate self-published authors. In 2022, I worked with the team to help with their podcast and create several blogs for their site that reaches tens of thousands of authors.
Solar Six Books/ Freelance Writer
June 2019 – August 2019 https://solarsixbooks.com/
Digital Media Experience:
Subscriptions for Authors/ Co-host and Community Founder March 2022 – Today https://subscriptionsforauthors.com
Over 10,000 podcast views and blog views in our first 6 months. We are the media brand for the start-up company I co-founded called Ream. Our Facebook Group has 1.2k authors as members.
Airtime/ Livestream Host and Creator Partner January 2021 – November 2021 https://airtime.com
In total, I streamed close to 1000 hours on this app writing and creating original nightly shows such as an interactive scavenger hunt roadtrip across America (yes, every night I actually went to a new city, it was fun).
Airrack/ Pre-Production Assistant/Story Ideator
January 2021 – April 2021 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyps-v4WNjWDnYRKmZ4BUGw
Airrack is one of the fastest-growing channels in YouTube history and I kayaked his island during a live stream when he hit a million subscribers to ask for a job.
YouTube + TikTok/ Personal Brand September 2020 – January 2021
Previously blogged and reached 10,000 subscribers in just about 90 days. Also created TikToks for two weeks while traveling the country and garnered several thousand followers. Deleted these channels to revamp my social presence around writing and the creator economy.
Education:
Harvard University/ History and Science September 2020 – Today, Cambridge, MA
I take classes divided into four quadrants: (1) neuroscience and intro biology classes, (2) science, technology, and society classes, (3) entrepreneurship/business courses, and (4) creative writing classes.
My major History and Science gives me the flexibility to explore my interests while also enabling me to work full-time as a student entrepreneur.
In addition, I have also been the assistant editor of the Future Humans Anthology for the 20th Anniversary of the Program on STS at HKS. And I serve as the co-chair of the STS Program at Harvard. I also regularly participate in the iLabs programs.
Wando High School / High School Diploma August 2016 – June 2019, Mount Pleasant, SC
Graduated in 3 years, studying everything from AP Chemistry to AP US History. Finished with a 5.5+ GPA ranked #1 in class. Co-President of EcoWarriors, VP of Key Club, and AP Academy Board Member.
Awards:
Harvard i3 Competition Finalist: out of over 100 teams from the Harvard community, our start-up pitch finished in the top 5.
Joanne L. Hurley Book Prize: awarded to the best young author in the Charleston area.