Garald (Gary) Barton IV

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Garald A Barton IV (Gary)
Marketing Manager
Office: 
(269) 387-5017
Location: 
3119 University Computing Center, Mail Stop 5206
Mailing address: 
Office of Information Technology
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5206 USA
Bio: 

Garald (Gary) joined Western Michigan University in 2005 as a Graphic/Web Designer for Student Affairs, where he helped build and develop a newly established marketing department. He then served in several marketing roles and lent his creative expertise to Auxiliary Enterprises from 2008-2018; Coordinator of Marketing and Communication, Marketing Specialist, Webmaster, and Web Content Specialist. Gary currently serves as the Marketing Manager for the Office of Information Technology. He helps create marketing plans, communicates services and outages, develops teaching and training materials, develops UX/UI/CS strategies, manages web, social media, knowledge base, and service content, and completes day-to-day design tasks.

Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his family, walking, creating art, fishing, ridings bikes, coaching youth ice hockey, and Pokémon.