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Portland, Oregon, Us

Responsible for all marketing and sales activity for national Direct Mail Marketing printer in NE Portland, looking to energize their workforce and revenue.Created a customer-first marketing and sales strategy that increased the average order value and doubled marketing attributed revenue.Increased employee morale and efficiencies that empowered employee growth and development.Manage and built: sales plans, budgets, forecasts, employee retention and customer success programs, product roadmaps, marketing plans, pricing structures, and recurring revenue models/plans.Managed company environment design, including all aspects of location design, signage, and other elements that brought the new brand to life.

Portland, Oregon, Us

now Thesis.Recruited, managed, and mentored the Creative Team—growing the staff from three employees to 22 across Content, Design, Development, and IT in five years.Formalized the Content Team to permanently integrate content strategy and copywriting across agency. Successfully grew business to support five full-time writers and strategists in two years.Designed and executed company rebrand, including the agency office, website, and all collateral.Led concepting and pitches for all new and returning partners without Spec work.Established the system to reconcile and visualize agency profitability and resourcing across all teams at the agency. Reporting monthly and quarterly as a member of the Executive Team.Taught New Media at the Oregon State University and guest lecturer at the Art Institute of Portland design program.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Managing Art Director responsible for design and development staff, management and resourcing. Assisted in day-to-day operations, project scoping and budgeting, client pitches, business development and project management.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Successfully delivered all company contracts after a period of extremely high attrition, before I joined the team, with only a junior designer and two developers for all client accounts.Formalized a hiring committee to attract and hire a Creative Director and Senior Designer to restaff the creative agency.United and mentored the Creative Team, bringing design and development together as equal parties in the creative process. Integrated production and Quality Assurance across entire agency at all strata.Initiated partnership approach to client services aligning our work with our client’s unique goals and audiences, working with Accounts and Strategy to implement this focus across Agency.

Founded and managed small 1–2 person marketing studio to partner with small, local businesses activating and realizing their unique goals.Led the entire process from business development, concept, marketing and audience strategy, design, development or execution, QA, and sometimes on-the-ground support for my partners.

Monmouth, Or, Us

editor in Chief for one year term with newspaper for Western Oregon University. responsible for the complete redesign of paper, all design decisions, content and staff management, advertising, invoices, distribution, copy editing, and sports section. successfully fundraised an unprecedented eight thousand dollars in three months to correct previous year’s budgeting errors.served as comic artist, layouts manager, copy editor, sports editor, columnist, business manager, advertising manager, in addition to editor in chief

Monmouth, Or, Us

responsibilities included the implementation of all outside communication and design work for the organization of sixty student groups and twenty-member staff, budgeting and staff management.elected and served as judicial administrator, chief of staff, president & CEO, and executive director of communications.

Lenox, Massachusetts, Us

Sleep-away, summer camp. Responsible primarily as a bunk counselor for twelve children. Started as photography program head teaching digital photography and preparing a functioning dark room for possible print photography in the future. Managed the media department and facilities which included the Drama, Photography, Radio, the Newspaper, and Rocketry with a total of five staff members. Took all camp photographs for three summers, managing, editing, and uploading over nine-hundred pictures myself while maintaining regular teaching schedule. Planned and facilitated programs for age specific activities and camp-wide events for three-hundred students and over a hundred staff members.

America's Camp is a completely volunteer, one-week, sleep away camp for children who have been affected by the events that happened on September 11, 2001. As a staff member I was responsible for bunk life of twelve to fifteen children, a part of an age group team, and special projects for the whole camp. Staff members apply to be considered and only 5-8% new staff are selected from the hundreds of applicants. I worked with these amazing individuals for two summers.

Us

board member, serving half term on the State Board of Higher Education, responsible for all policy work for Oregon’s seven public postsecondary education institutions, appointed by Oregon Governor, Ted Kulongoski and confirmed by the Oregon Senate.