Art director for several national and international brands' magazines at a top content marketing agency that encourages innovation, creativity and thought leadership.Pillars at Imagination specialize in financial services, business-to-business, retail and associations. Personal passion is food service/hospitality.Primary responsibilities include: directing photo shoots, creating detailed shot list for photo shoots, designing magazines covers and pages, selecting photos, developing visual brand standards for clients, creating sales guides for clients, thinking conceptually, planning art/content integration, speaking with clients, hiring and coordinating freelancers, hitting deadlines, understanding and delivering clients' wants and needs, and adhering to budgets. Current clients include: Dawn Foods, U.S. Bank, Chick-fil-A (formerly U.S. Foods and American Bar Association) Other Imagination clients include: Wells Fargo, Sears, Allstate, International Interior Design Association, Project Management Institute, SunTrust, Amica, Northern Trust, and many more

Became the Chicago Tribune's youngest Page One designer in Tribune history in July 2015. Responsible for working well under pressure, enforcing daily deadlines, carrying out an expert layout, writing accurate headlines, choosing perfect photos, and leading the newsroom at night.Designed both news and features pages for Chicago Tribune; created layouts shapes to be used in the Baltimore Sun, Sun Sentinel (South Florida), Orlando Sentinel, Hartford Courant, The Morning Call and Daily Press.Helped with display graphics and photos on ChicagoTribune.com.

Designed a variety of news pages, highlighting: Page 1 designer, spearheaded special national election pages and special projects for: Louisville Courier-Journal, Asheville Citizen-Times, Greenville News and Cincinnati Enquirer.Acted as a peer mentor for young designers.Worked as a "face of the studio" when traveling to newsrooms that would be integrated into the studio; promoted good relations between newsrooms in the greater Midwest and the studio.Mastered NewsGate and CCI systems; communicated effectively in studio/newsroom online correspondence.

Designed pages for main, local and sports sections; wrote engaging, accurate headlines; edited body copy for news, sports and features sections.Maintained NWHerald.com with current news content, nighttime uploads, designed special banners for specialty NWHerald.com websites.

Designed front Metro pages, Metromix, Sunday living pages, local community niche and features pages, including NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 special section.Learned CCI system, IndyStar styles and applied them effectively.

Pieced together, interviewed for "The Long Fall," a story on former Gov. Blagojevich’s aide Chris Kelly in the May 2010 edition.

Achieved first place in General Excellence for daily college paper, website from the Illinois College Press Association; Managed, evaluated performance of staff of 175; Created, launched new DailyIllini.com through Drupal software; Collaborated, represented the readers, the Illini Media Board and newsroom’s interests; Organized, handled newsroom budget, allocate resources to employeesCoordinated, executed new Daily Illini salary guide and database.Previous positions at The Daily Illini: Design editor: Nov. 2007 to March 2009Deputy design editor: April 2007 to Nov. 2007Page designer: Jan. 2007 to April 2007Staff writer: Sept. 2006 to Dec. 2006

Completed a number of tabloid pages each day, ranging from news, sports and features for several Sun Times' west suburban editions.Pages included copy-editing, illustrating and aiding in photography choice for both long-term series as well as deadline layouts.