Employee Profiles

Susan Ruddock is a marketing communications specialist, focused on development of communication materials and concepts. Responsibilities at Vandewalle & Associates include finding marketing solutions for Vandewalle & Associates and our clients, as well as directing, designing and producing creative documents and marketing materials.

Susan has over fifteen years of advertising agency experience as copywriter, designer, and creative director, as well as related background in landscape architecture. She has worked to create selling concepts, marketing platforms, design, and copy tone for a wide range of clients. Susan has developed print materials, as well as radio, television, and video.

Brand creation is an area of particular interest in all of Susan’s work, whether it’s marketing, or communicating a “sense of place.” In the past, she was responsible for helping create unique brand images for Philips Medical Systems, HOPPE, and BBC Technologies in Europe; Mercury Marine, Kohler, CUNA Mutual Group, Oscar Meyer, Rayovac, and Kraft in the United States.

Susan has been involved with the Madison Biomedical Collaborative, the Madison Healthy City Initiative, and the Park Street Partners Vision Project. Current projects include: Grafton Marketing CD, Fitchburg Greenhouse, Belvidere Rail, Hillside Marketing, and Sheboygan Spaceport.

Education

B.A. Journalism
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

In Progress: Professional Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin

Professional Licenses, Registrations, and Memberships
Phi Beta Kappa
Student Chapter Member, American Society of Landscape Architects