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Woodstock, Georgia, United States

• Designed, launched, and managed a 3000 sq. ft. “escape room” entertainment center, open to the public with 5 separate adventure scenarios to choose from. • Gained an investment partner after presenting a solid business plan and self-sustaining operation budget. • Ensured permits and compliance, managing location upfit and vetting contractors. • Increased revenue with innovative marketing such as “mini-escape rooms” at local festivals. • Led growth to the point of needing and managing 8 full & part-time employees. • Closed the business in good standing with the community, after restrictions began in 2020.

Marietta, Georgia, United States

• Founded and managed a production company and recording studio that grew from 4 initial creators to an established group of over 20 artists/creators. • Surpassed 35,000+ channel views (YouTube) without any paid advertising. • Co-created, wrote, directed, edited, designed special effects, and produced popular web-series “Star Command” and “Suspension of Disbelief”. https://www.youtube.com/@starcommandseries• Dragon Con Invited Guest Speaker on developing and launching a successful web-series. • Maximized time and budget with in-depth knowledge of production needs, prep, logistics, and shooting schedules for teams with up to 5 Artists and 20 actors at any given time.

Duluth, Georgia

Contracted via MaxMedia: • Managed online presence of the world’s enterprise technology leader for restaurants, retailers, and bankers. • Fostered UX Design by developing new product-line pages and structure from company wireframes.• Ensured timely, unified messaging as the point-person for posting corporate news and press releases to the main website in coordination with the PR Team and upper management.• Maintained QA via diligent monitoring for bugs, collaborating with Developers, and reporting timely hotfixes.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

• Served as a key Liaison between the MaxMedia Design Team and Aio’s Senior Development Team for a major new product launch as part of Aio’s acquisition by AT&T and its subsidiary, Cricket Wireless.• Initially supervised a QA Team of 3 analysts and a Software Engineer, with expanded oversight of the Content Management Team for the final month of the project. • Key contributor on managing contracts, defining scope, prioritizing of bug fixes, and designing workflow for User Acceptability Testing.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Responsible for analyzing, developing, and executing sales strategies for capturing market share for Virtrue’s Social Marketing / Social Engagement & Monitoring products.• Served as the Technology Expert for the Atlanta Sales Team (Territory), including new production education.• Reduced sales cycles by creating valuable marketing supplements and content such as custom social media pages and analytic reports demonstrating the products capabilities to potential customers. • Served as the New Customer Onboarding Lead for the Customer Service Team, designing, scheduling, and facilitating onboarding and training programs to suit customers’ specific needs. • Enhanced product capabilities and customer satisfaction via proactive outreach to Chief Marketing Officers, Marketing Directors, and Social Media Managers with strategies to help achieve their goals. • Produced custom solutions in collaboration with Tech Support and Developers.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Responsible for technical infrastructure, networking, hardware, phone/VoIP, centralized copy center, and support for ~150 employees (end-users) at an Environmental Remediation and Engineering Company. • Designed and led a multi-office location consolidation from 3 down to 1 HQ.• Delivered ideal workspaces, tools, and systems for an interdisciplinary staff with diverse needs. • Designed and led an office-wide tech upgrade including desktop/laptop systems for all Engineers. • Minimized, if not prevented, downtime via diligent management of printers and their networks, especially after leading an overhaul and upgrade of new printing systems that reduced publishing/printing costs. • Led a 2-person Team, developing our performance to support corporate-wide operations more effectively.

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity, 3.9

Bachelor Of Arts, Theater Performance