Online Resume

Heartland Retail is the leading cloud-based POS and Retail Management software. At Springboard, I oversaw visual corporate brand design guidelines in all facets of marketing collateral, web, and public-facing communications. Currently for Heartland, I lead and manage creative visual design projects for the retail POS product, including website, demand generation assets, print material, digital content and media, partnership collateral, interactive materials, and event materials for trade shows.

Oversee visual corporate brand design guidelines in all facets of marketing collateral, web, and public-facing communications. Oversee and manage design interns and outsourced projects to freelance designers and coders. Design and layout customer-facing print and web designs including corporate website and demand generation materials with integration of social media, Sales Force, Pardot, Hubspot, and Google Analytics. Involves design of creative assets such as infographics, white papers, articles, blog articles, landing pages, and more. Phunware creates category-defining mobile app solutions for clients such as Fox, NBC, WWE, AMC, and NASCAR.

Consulting and production services including public relations, marketing, media, music production, and graphic design. Advised clients of appropriate campaigns and approached for business solutions. Including print, web, video, data research, project management, organizational planning, and audio production. Specialties include healthcare, aerospace, music industry, and nonprofits.

Designing attractive, professional, and highly-usable web interfaces, websites, and templates for internal and external clients. Integration with Content Management System framework such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Expert use of Adobe Creative Suite. Hand-coding of HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript. Expert attention to cross-browser issues and cross-device responsive designs. Interface with clients from first contact to final project completion.

Responsible for providing outstanding customer service and sales in the Staples Best Copy & Printer Center. Production skills include on-demand color printing, scanning, and finishing in a high-volume and high-expectation service environment.

Established and directed a nonprofit religious organization. As founder and director (pastor) of Encounter Church, I coordinated nearly 20 volunteers for numerous community events. Established administrative protocols, created community awareness, developed organizational budgets, communicated vision and values, fundraised for outside support, and more. As a skilled graphic designer I also designed all promotional material and online presence.

Served as director of worship arts department, recruiting and organizing over 30 unpaid volunteers. Also directed and produced internal and external communications for organization. Programmed creative elements of weekly gatherings. Coordinated themes with a variety of media and graphic elements of worship including music and video presentations. In addition, I performed a variety of graphics and media communications functions. Graphic design of brochures, flyers, website, advertisements, billboards, banners, artwork, CDs, DVDs, and other media as needed for publicity.

Graphic design layout and production for print company. Graphic design, layout, production, revisions. Preparation of various projects for printing press from one to full-color.

Key designer in marketing communications department of Fortune 500 healthcare insurance corporation. Graphic design, layout, and production from one to full-color. Includes online presentations, brochures, forms, monthly directories and newsletters. Also obtained experience in image scanning, data manipulation, macro programming, and database development. Maintained clients relations regarding art production requests. Coordinated projects from conception to completion. Collected printing bids and distribute work to vendors. Developed and maintained database for document shipping, receiving and inventory management. Resolved software/hardware technical issues including computer installations and purchases.

Graphic design and illustration in a service bureau environment. Graphic design/layout including view graphs, reports, posters, technical art, organizational charts, photos, and logos. Assigned tasks to illustrators and coordinated project completion. Created budget strategies for department productivity. Software and hardware maintenance and installation on Apple workstations and network. Established and maintained Top Secret secure work area for classified projects following Department of Defense (DOD) standard security procedures.

Developed marketing and public replations strategies for print, audio, and visual media promotion including press kits, flyers, newsletters, mailing lists, special events, etc. Design and creation of all company identification and promotion including logos, brochures, and product packaging.

Internship advertising space sales in monthly music entertainment publication, Mean Street Magazine. Responsible for sale of advertising space to local accounts. Collaboration in graphic design and layout of advertisements.