Jerome Joseph Gentes Writer⏐Designer⏐Producer
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CONTENT STRATEGY & Design

Senior Content Strategist & Experience Designer, freelance, 2020-present
● Strategizing, designing, and managing content for diverse clients, subjects, and strategies, including medicine, education, telemetrics, and tourism
● Developed and delivered web content and strategies, including SEO, analytics, inbound/outbound links, and social sharing to help drive digitalization of traditional medical industry patient engagement model

● Projects include social media marketing and calendaring, targeting and delivering growth and sales, as well as long-form content
Senior Content Strategist, Charles Schwab, San Francisco, 2021-2023
● Helped facilitate Schwab acquisition and integration of 14.5M brokerage accounts from TD Ameritrade through account access content strategy projects
● Strategized and designed for the Charles Schwab Digital Inheritance Center to simplify brokerage account inheritance tasks, insuring greater customer retention
● Designed for cross-device, cross-platform UX and digital communications, including web and mobile email, notifications, and other messaging
Principal Content Designer, Intuit Data Exchange, Intuit, Mountain View, CA, 2017-2021​
● Designed, delivered, and managed UX financial data content, integrating global data sharing, security, privacy, legal, and compliance standards, across all Intuit product platforms, devices, and systems
● Strategized and designed content for Intuit Aid Assist, a PPP program loan eligibility calculator enabling 30K SMBs to access Intuit-facilitated PPP loans
● Integrated content governance and content lifecycle management with other cross-product content design systems, flexing with style, voice, and tone guidelines
Content Writer, Supervisor, Meyer Corporation US, Vallejo, CA, 2012-2017 
● Strategized, designed and delivered original branded ecommerce and CPG product, marketing and social media content across multiple touchpoints, brands, and platforms for an industry-leading
global kitchenware marketer and distributor
● Introduced and implemented content strategy best practices to shift pre-existing corporate mindset from copywriting approach towards cross-brand voice and tone
● Analyzed, redesigned, implemented and managed a new, efficient content creation strategy and management system to deliver unique, SEO-rich product content for 9K+ active CPG SKUs across 10 different proprietary and licensed brands

CREATIVE WORK

Relative Strangers: The Queer Memories of an Adopted Son & Native American Brother, a Substack, 2025
Aswim, a short film screenplay, 2025
● Currently in post-production with TigerBear Productions
GhostRave: an indigiqueer electronic opera libretto​, 2023-present
● Composed by Brandon M. P. Roberts
● Workshop production at The Magic Theatre, Fall 2024

Displacement: Stories from Section 14, full-length team-written play, Green Room Theater Company, 2024
● Featured in the Los Angeles Times, Spring 2024
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OR: or, The Play of Light​, written as a short for Monday Night PlayGround, October 2016
● Expanded and selected for Best of PlayGround, Vol. 21, Spring 2017
● ​Commissioned for full-length play development by PlayGround and Planet Earth Arts, 2017-2018
Knuckles, microplay written for Fingertips: 21 Plays In 60 Minutes (Or Less)
● Produced by Steven Westdahl for the 2019 San Francisco Fringe Festival
● ​Awarded "Techie's Choice: Best of the Fringe" (full production)
The Right Note, a full-length musical libretto, music composed by Rice Majors
● Workshopped by Spare Stage, San Francisco, 2018
● Work-in-progress showcase performance, January 2016
● ​Produced by Musical Cafe Showcase Series
Schrödinger's Christmas, libretto for a short opera composed by Jon Rosen
● Created for 24 Hour Playfest
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roduced for Musical Cafe, 2015

Hold Your Piece, full-length play
● Developmental readings, Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, 2013-2014
● S
taged reading, Buffalo United Artists, August 2012

Aria 51, ten-minute musical libretto and lyrics, September 2013

● Written for the Playwrights' Center of SF annual 24-hour playfest
● Music composed by Jon Rosen
● Dramatists' Guild Footlights Reading, April 2015
Show Me Yours: Songs of Innocence and Experience, lyrics for a musical revue
● Written for New Musical Theater of San Francisco, April 2013

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

​"OR or, The Play of Light," Eleven Eleven: A Journal of Literature and Art

Interviews with authors Tim Russert, Frank Bruni, Jennifer 8. Lee, and Neal Rosenthal, Publishers Weekly ​

Poetry and criticism published in The Buffalo News, Verbatim, Rougarou, Artvoice, The Writer’s Compass, Sightings, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, SF Weekly

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