About Jay-V

Jay-V

Hey everyone! Despite the similarity in name, I'm not related to a pop culture icon. I'm a transplant to Colorado, having been born and raised near the tropical shores of Lake Michigan in southeastern Wisconsin. Seeking adventure after graduating from college in 2009, I moved to Fort Collins and landed a public relations position with OtterBox. My passions include the outdoors, the Milwaukee Brewers and belting out classic rock tunes when I'm in my car. Come along for the ride!


Solo survival on Valentine’s Day

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Broken heartEvery Feb. 14, the air is inevitably filled with the song of love birds.  For weeks, television commercials have been showing happy couples gifting jewelry, flowers, chocolate, romantic getaways, you name it. Even OtterBox.com gets into the spirit with special call outs to our Strength line of pink and white cases benefiting the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade.

But as a single guy or gal, the occasion can be a bit frustrating. While your friends are out celebrating with their significant other, you’re stuck trying to find something to do to take your mind off of it. While there’s… Read More

A Little Place Called Aspen – Winter X Games Contest

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An epic journeyIn 1994, Harry and Lloyd made an epic journey to “a little place called Aspen.” In 2011, OtterBox followed suit, kicking off the year and the Down+Dirty tour with an inaugural visit to Aspen and the Winter X Games. After four fantastic days and visits from thousands of our closest friends, we couldn’t wait to create another epic journey to Aspen in 2012. It’s almost time!

Winter X Games 15 saw numerous records: attendance broke 114,000, 15-year-old Torin Yater-Wallace became the youngest to ever reach the podium in Winter X Games history and Kelly Clark became… Read More

Summer X Games are almost here!

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OtterBox at Winter XAfter all of the fun we had at the Winter X Games back in January, we couldn’t help but schedule a little trip out to L.A. for the Summer X Games 17 to reunite with some of the friends we made in Aspen. Molly’s presence meant good luck for Shaun White at Winter X – he boarded to a 4th straight gold in men’s snowboard Superpipe right after posing for a photo with her. Shaun will be back and so will Molly, KT, Kelly and I, hoping to see more of the jaw-dropping jumps and fantastic falls that… Read More

Down & Dirty in July

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OtterBox Tough MuddersSummer is event season here at OtterBox and with it comes a plethora of opportunities for us to interact with all of you! While we kicked the season off with a presence at events like the Teva Mountain Games and Tough Mudder in a couple of fantastic Colo. mountain towns, July has even bigger things in store for our Down & Dirty tour.

Ever hear of the Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards? If you’re a sports fan (and I shorten it to “ESPYs”), you’ll know what I mean. This annual event, hosted by ESPN, has been the stage for… Read More