Graphic Designer and Senior Creative for Universal Lighting Technologies Inc., Douglas Lighting Controls, and Vossloh-Schwabe, all of which were previously owned by Panasonic of Japan. Using my design skills, marketing materials such as brochures, flyers, posters, spec sheets, installation instructions, company forms, banners, logos, and other items were designed to meet corporate needs. These needs extended to other categories such as:• Company Design Standards Guide – Created and maintained the company design standards guide for Universal Lighting Technologies and Douglas Lighting Controls while under the Panasonic name. Ensured all marketing items meet design standards.• Photography - Product lines, corporate events, and new employees were routinely photographed for company and marketing use.• Digital Marketing Emails - Built graphic digital marketing emails, also known as eBlasts, which used systems such as MyEmma and Pardot of Salesforce.• Digital Marketing Animated Gif Ads – Constructed small-animated gif banner ads, aimed for use in the mobile market..• Digital Marketing Email Signature Banners - These were created to represent sales teams for use in their emails.• Social Media Graphics – Card graphics were created to aid in company news posts covering events and products on social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.• Environmental Panel Display Design – Designs were created for use on large set panels built for various trade show exhibits promoting a wide array of company products for clients.• Physical Marketing Items – Various items were designed around, such as acrylic display units and hanging signs made of various materials like vinyl, card stock, or styrene, as well as floor and desk matts, and decals.• Prepress – Routinely took print content to prepress finalization by doing routine double checks via proofs to ensure no errors made it to final printing.

• Graphic Designer for GCA Publishing (TheNews), a multicounty print publisher, located in Nashville Tennessee.• Responsibilities include logo and print design for local client advertising in the magazines and newspapers.• Creating layout design and prepress construction for weekly newspapers and monthly magazines.• Cover design for special newspaper insert issues such as Camps, Business Profiles, and Nashville Entrepreneurs.• Construction and print for special event items such as awards certificates for annual Entrepreneurs Luncheon, and event advertising such as Register to Win.• Newspapers published include: Green Hills News, Belle Meade News , West Meade News, West Side News, Bellevue News, Donelson News, Hermitage News, and Nashville Today.• Magazines published include: Today's Homes (Nashville), Today's Homes (Williamson), Today's Nashville, Brides To Be, and Nashville Dining Guide

Created multiple black and white vector illustrations used in educational test books by Discovery Education group.

Was commissioned via director to illustrate concept art for a future based film, which was in the early stages of pre production. The imagery included costume, vehicle, architecture, future technology, and set ideas, all drawn in a style requested by director.

Worked along side staff doing graphic work for print and web design. Also worked digital file organization for past and current projects. Printed graphic demo stock photo booklets so clients could select items with ease for their books being created and published by the company.

• Built and maintained an entire website, www.spatteredcamel.net (no longer in use), for The Spattered Camel Company, an art gallery and frame shop located in Tullahoma, Tennessee.• Website showcased the inventory of artwork, as well as art supplies and other gallery accessories that were for sale.• Spotlighted local artist of the Tullahoma area, via profile listings on the site. • Created graphics for the site design and also utilized photography for the inventory listings and other needed graphical elements for the site.