Brian Revels Email & Phone Number

- Create and send revenue generating marketing emails- Perform data analysis on email data- Work as a Project Lead on up-coming marketing projects - Perform user and customer experience analysis through user interviews and surveys

Dallas, NC

This is another one of my side business ventures. I am a semi-professional luthier who makes anything from custom electric guitars to Cigar Box Guitars to single string canjos. I put together small practice amps and also make glass bottleneck slides.

Gastonia, NC

• This is my side-business venture... I make a range of different, eclectic home furnishings such as:
• Bookshelves made from books
• Lamps made from wine a liquor bottles
• Bowls, Desk Organizers, and Bookends made from vinyl records
• Hurricane lanterns and other bottle art made from wine and liquor bottles
• Cigar Box Guitars, Amps, and other related items.

• This is my own freelance design venture that I am currently working to further facilitate.
• Help develop and design "brand identity"
• Design and create logos, business cards, letterheads, brochures and other print related materials.
• Working to broaden my horizons in designing web banners, animated gifs and other creative interactivity to do with the web.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Perform User Testing and other User Research
• Work as a Business Analyst and UX Designer (working with business stakeholders and customers) to figure out requirements and create effective user experiences for new features
• Create wireframes, wireflows, and other lo-fidelity mockups - while working with UI Developers on the creation and final designs and higher fidelity mockups
• Write Epics and User Stories
• Demo functionality for various teams and stakeholders
• Work as a Junior Product Manager by making decisions and answering questions on behalf of Product Management when it comes to software development

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Assist in coordinating and monitoring quality of and web applications as these products proceed through the stages of the software development life-cycle
• Apply industry best practices to certify software releases as high quality products
• Assist in training new QA Engineers when it comes to how to use the current software they will be testing
• Execute manual testing of software products for the Yearbook division of Herff Jones
• Track and Report testing progress, quality metrics, and other details to measure release quality and status
• Participate in design specification reviews and project planning meetings, providing input that pertains to testing efforts. Includes writing test plans, scripts, and result reports, and communicating them accordingly

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Effectively handle tech support calls dealing with computer related issues stemming from and around creating yearbooks, using the Herff Jones online program eDesign, and various other Adobe software (such as InDesign.
• Aid in testing various Herff Jones software and design plug-ins
• Teach various technical and software related subjects at summer workshops
• Assist in training of Herff Jones office personnel and sales force
• Offer effective communication and customer service

• Layout various “tip pages” for sponsorship-based public relational programs
• Design and print sales kit materials (i.e. brochures, fliers, presentations, posters, newsletters, etc.)
• Designing and printing direct mail campaigns
• Designed and creating all printed materials for the company's annual sales convention
• Other assorted graphics-related duties

• Promote and sell new technology as it became available
• Restocking items and set up shelves as required
• Develop effective communication and customer service skills in a rigorous, high volume retail environment

• I was seasonally employed from 10-03 to 1-03 and 9-04 to 12-04...
• Unload, organize and process freight as it arrived to the store
• Promote apparel and new products to existing and new consumer clientele
• Assist with visual marketing displays and the restocking of items

• I was seasonally employed from 4-02 to 9-02, 5-03 to 9-03 and 5-04 to 9-04. I started out as a Life Guard/Grounds Keeper and moved to a higher level each passing summer.
• Supervision over lake personnel
• Act as cashier in event owner or subsequent personnel were not presently available
• Manage lake duties
• Assist as an on-duty Life Guard
• Landscaping and Grounds keeping

• Assist in hanging art and setting up art gallery exhibitions
• Organizing the art history slide library in alpha-numerical order
• Help setup and clean up for gallery openings
• Tend to general gallery up-keep

Bachelors Of Arts, Graphic Design, Printmaking, Drawing

Activities and Societies: Who's Who Among Americans, National Technical Honor SocietyI graduated with a Bachelors Degree having completed.

Associates Of Fine Arts, Drawing Printmaking, Art History

• I worked as the assistant to the Gallery Director in the Rauch Gallery • I played rhythm guitar in a local Christian, hard-rock band.