I design the logos for each of 8 shows a year, plus summer camps and special events, and apply them across the board to t-shirts, programs, website, advertising, posters, merchandise, social media and lobby decor. I recently rebranded the company during the name change from Christian Youth Theater Richmond (www.cworkstheater.org).

Past and present clients: Hallmarks Cards, Kodak, Hilton, Shear Madness for Kids, Three Dog Bakery, Christian Youth Theater, CharacterWorks Theater for Kids, Samaritan Counseling Center, The City of Albuquerque, Studio Performance Academy, All God’s Children Summer Camp, COBA Investment Company, Sabre Wealth, SourceAmerica, Virginia High School League, Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Memory Makers Magazine, Paws & Stripes, Miss Kansas Organization, WorldWHYs, and various churches, nonprofits, schools and individuals.

Responsibilities included developing and applying the brand to all marketing materials (print, web and social media) for commercial real estate brokers; event design and implementation; presentation design; video editing; in-house event marketing and social media.

Completely rebranded the Virginia conference: the logo, the monthly publication, conference displays, all printed materials and the website (www.vaumc.org).Awarded by the United Methodist Association of Communicators:2012: Awards of Excellence for: Print Design, Special Publication, and Campaign Design & Strategic Planning2013: First Place in Visual Design Print or Electronic; First Place in Logos/Branding for the rebranding of the Conference; and First Place in Publicity/Advertising Single Piece for the conference 2013 Ministries With Young People Resource Guide.Best in Class award of excellence for Visual Design.2014: First Place in the Print Publications category for the Advocate magazine design; Second place in Visual Design Print or Electronic for the Advocate magazine; Third Place in Branding Development for "Every Life Save a Life" Imagine No Malaria logo; First Place for Virginia United Methodist Foundation's 2013 Annual Report.2016: First Place in the Print Publications category for the Virginia United Methodist Advocate magazine design2018: First Place in the Print Publications category for the Virginia United Methodist Advocate magazine design; Best of Class Robert F. Storey Award of Excellence for the Virginia United Methodist Advocate magazine; Second Place for the May 2017 feature in the Virginia United Methodist Advocate magazine on church communicators.

I designed covers and layouts for yearbooks all over Richmond, assisted advisors with yearbook theming and creation, ran workshops and trained advisors in the use of the online creation program, designed marketing and direct mail pieces and prospected new business.

As an in-house designer, I designed financial materials from 401(k) enrollment poster campaigns to full financial prospectuses and annual reports.

I applied the Three Dog Bakery brand to everything in this fledgling company: ads, stationery, DOGalogs, product packaging, product naming and concepts, a cookbook, merchandise, retail store design and layout, wall graphics, and displays. I also created the brand standards manual for franchisees as we rolled out new bakeries all over the country.

As a Creative Product Designer, I worked on many product lines over 12 years, including seasonal greeting cards, Christmas boxed cards, gift wrap, specialty gift product, and new product development.In the more traditional business units, I worked with an editor, a marketing associate, and many artists and writers to create line of visually and editorially balanced product. This included business planning, trend forecasting, creative research, running design projects, art directing, photostyling, lettering, and plenty of presentations.In the Product Discovery & Development business, I worked on cutting edge personalized product, such as greeting cards, invitations and photo product where customers could personalize their messages, designs and photos. Although these things are common now, we were pioneering the touchscreen and print-on-demand technologies before most people even had an email account (1990-1994). We partnered with Kodak to create a storefront in Chicago called "Image Gallery" where customers could bring their photos in and have them integrated with conceptual designs for framing, video covers, apparel, and even gift wrap. This was VERY early in the digital photography world--photos on CD and digital cameras were brand new. My experience on that project lead me to another new emerging business--Scrapbooking. As Hallmark's National Scrapbooking spokesperson, I created and designed about 30 scrapbooking kits/packaging, and I spoke to retailers about the potential of this emerging business. I was also featured on radio and TV as the face of Hallmark memory-keeping products.