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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Led the research and design efforts for multiple product teams, resulting in multiple on-time deliveries. Oversaw the work of multiple designers. Created a culture of collaboration and curiosity through UX Guild. Visioned, built, and implemented OKR management system.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Introduced user experience design practices to HealthTrust. Implemented accessibility standards. Received design and research mentorship.

Nashville

Media Department creative, contracted for the Maker Team. Unified the experience between the mobile app and desktop. Designed and wrote copy for emails. Methods: User Flows, Wireframing, and Agile Development. Tools: Sketch, InVision, Slack, and Jira.

Nashville, Tn

As a music specialist and sales consultant, I provide recommendations and advice for customers as they vision their ministries and order. As a Social Media Manager, I study year-over-year trends to identify target audiences then plan social media posts for customer engagement. Side Projects: competitor report, position chart, price analysis, corporate presentation, audience survey, and social media scheduling.

Reno, Nv • Nashville, Tn

As a graphic designer with a marketing background, my work starts with the customer and works out. Through the years I've provided logos and branding from the ground up, rebrand organizations to increase appeal and hone their audiences, and setup technology solutions – website, blog, social media, and email service – to meet communications needs.

Nashville, Tn

An ongoing personal project of mine that I’ve persued as the lead designer and static front end developer with other developers and teammates. Methods: user interviews, user story mapping, design then develop, and agile development. Tools: Dropbox, TextMate, Sketch, InVision, Asana, and Slack. After years of developing a very advanced feature set on the native platform of iOS with Xcode, we're taking a step back to hone our niche and build a much simpler tool. Now our first release will be a web app / text service that links to responsive web pages from from texts or other medias.

Nashville, Tn

Consulted the marketing strategy, user experience, and user interfaces for a local startup. I performed user interviews, received feedback from industry experts, and drafted the user story map to inform user flows and UI.

Reno, Nevada

As the Shipping Department Area Manager on night shift (Shift 2) in Reno's legacy facility, I supervised 30 to over 100 hourly associates and the conveyance spread throughout 3 areas of the facility: the packing area, docket, and manifest office. Safety was the top priority, followed closely by output and efficiency. Through voluntary process improvement initiatives and collaborations with associates, I saved the company an estimated $100,000 annually and empowered my empowered my associates to think critically.

Nashville, Tn

During the fall after graduating from college, I gained a variety of freelance experience before moving to Reno, NV in January. Positions: Stage Manager at Christ Presbyterian Church; the Communications Intern at Christ Presbyterian Academy (replacing the main graphic designers of both the church and school for 2 weeks); and Marketing Consultant for a friend launching his production company, Chicken Crossing [Productions].

Knoxville, Tennessee

Updated and managed the marketing/communications process for the RecSports programs: Intramurals, Outdoor, Fitness, Aquatics, and others. This included creating a style guide to streamline graphics, and strategies/tactics to better use RecSports' email, social media, signage, public relations, and promotional programs.

Knoxville, Tn

Visioned the club to serve undergraduates by increasing their marketing knowledge, connections, and experience. This was accomplished by utilizing the team of officers to organize weekly meetings – alternating between special guests and workshops – and then scheduling monthly faculty roundtables or others opportunities to connect. The result was an increase in active participation and member opportunity.

Knoxville, Tn

As one of 8 Creative Interns at this international product design and source manufacturing agency, I was able to experience the process of idea generation, refinement through sketches, then official mockups and prototypes, all the way through order selection and manufacturing. During the summer, each intern was required to be presentation ready, able to give an engaging corporate presentation and speak to both the trends and the ideas generated for the client. AAI served multiple Fortune 500 clients in the alcohol, liquor, tobacco, and personal care industries.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Developed, coordinated, and executed campus-wide and -niche experiential marketing events and sponsorships for the Reese's® brand on the University of Tennessee's campus.

Brentwood, Tn

As the summer intern for a Nashville communications agency, I assisted in the project management of local and nationwide campaigns. Tasks included editing mailing campaigns, assisting in charting the master calendar, and developing new marketing contacts in the industry.