Jamee Thobe, CPSM
Since 2025
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AEC marketing professional
Jamee leads comprehensive creative strategy and brand experience development for Garmann Miller, an award-winning multi-discipline design firm serving clients across Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware since 1993. As Creative Leader based in Minster, Ohio, she drives innovative marketing campaigns, trade show experience design, and brand communications for a firm recognized nationally for marketing excellence—earning back-to-back SMPS M Awards of Excellence in 2023 and 2025 for Trade Show Marketing.
Her expertise spans AEC creative marketing with specialized knowledge in experiential marketing, trade show campaign development, brand strategy, visual communications, and creative execution across architecture, engineering, interior design, and planning disciplines. Jamee brings comprehensive understanding of how to effectively communicate firm culture and technical capabilities through immersive, memorable brand experiences that resonate with school districts, municipalities, healthcare organizations, and civic clients throughout the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
With expertise in creative marketing leadership and brand experience design, Jamee has built a career characterized by innovative thinking, strategic creativity, and commitment to excellence that has elevated Garmann Miller’s brand recognition within the competitive K-12 education, civic, higher education, healthcare, faith, industrial, and parks and recreation markets. Her comprehensive knowledge of Garmann Miller’s integrated approach—combining architecture, interior design, MEP engineering, landscape architecture, technology design, and construction administration—enables effective creative positioning for a 90+ person firm with offices in Minster, Columbus, Celina (Ohio), Carmel, Fort Wayne (Indiana), and Lancaster (Pennsylvania).
Jamee demonstrates exceptional professional leadership through her recent CPSM certification achievement (November 2025) and national recognition with back-to-back SMPS M Awards of Excellence in 2023 and 2025 for Trade Show Marketing. These prestigious awards—part of the Marketing Communications Awards competition now in its 48th year—represent the longest-standing recognition program honoring excellence by professional services firms in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry.
Accepting the 2025 M Award of Excellence alongside Marketing Director Doug Rentz and Client Experience Director Kristi Shaner at SMPS’s Amplify AEC national conference in Columbus, Ohio (August 7, 2025), Jamee’s creative leadership was formally recognized at the industry’s premier marketing excellence celebration. The winning trade show campaign for Indiana and Ohio School Boards Association conferences featured interactive on-site experiences, immersive booth design, and philanthropic community engagement that exemplified strategic creativity serving both business development and social impact objectives.
Her creative approach to trade show marketing goes beyond traditional booth design to create holistic brand experiences. Garmann Miller’s annually rotating 30-foot booth themes—part of overall brand strategy—convey firm culture, provide memorable attendee experiences, and generate increased conversations on conference floors. This strategic creativity demonstrates understanding that effective marketing creates emotional connections while communicating technical capabilities and organizational values.
The 2025 campaign’s philanthropic component—a sock drive collecting 550+ pairs for Hannah’s Socks nonprofit—reflects Jamee’s leadership philosophy that marketing can serve dual purposes: building brand recognition while contributing to community wellbeing. This approach aligns perfectly with Garmann Miller’s founding principle of “doing what’s right” and commitment to enhancing lives beyond four walls.
Jamee’s creative leadership contributes to Garmann Miller’s recognition as a Building Design+Construction Giants 300 firm and Best Firm to Work in the U.S.—achievements reflecting organizational excellence that her marketing campaigns authentically communicate to prospective clients, partners, and employees.
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