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Michigan

• Creating eye catching and exciting artwork, animation, music, and more that reflects the ideals and message of the EasterlyArt brand. • Responsible for creating progressive and innovative solutions, with design and illustrative techniques, to achieve the desired results for businesses wishing to communicate a specific message.

Plymouth, Michigan, United States

As an assistant creative director, I am responsible for developing engaging marketing materials for social media, while managing the company’s social media accounts. This includes interacting with current customers, and converting potential customers. Diligently designing, capturing, and managing company graphics, photos, video, and other brand assets, along with documenting and organizing internal marketing discussions, ad campaigns, and more. I additionally represent the company at events to advocate for the services provided, while capturing photo and video materials to be used for marketing purposes in social media, newsletters, and ads.

Greater Detroit Area

Greater Detroit Area

One of my biggest projects I worked on in this role was a video series made to be distributed to all team members in the family of companies for their year end performance review, helping team members and team leaders to be fully aware of what they needed to do.My responsibilities:• Collaborate with team members to create scripts and storyboards• Coordinate with team members and leaderships on schedules and deadlines• Record and direct leadership for voiceover recordings• Create visual assets aligned with the visual identity of Quicken Loans for animated videos• Edit and animate videos

Greater Detroit Area

Responsible for creating visual solutions for logo designs, announcements, print media,video media, and developing templates for presentations.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Motor City Street Dance Academy (MCSDA) is an educational Hip Hop Studio based in Southwest Detroit providing classes on art, dance, music, and so much more. They are also a community support hub for many people within Detroit, and helping advocate for those looking to make positive change and progress in Detroit.My role with MCSDA was to help educate students both young and old on how to DJ. This would include teaching students on understanding some basic fundamentals of music, learning how to use the equipment, and then demonstrating what they learned through practice.

Greater Detroit Area

The Youmacon Hip Hop Show was the third installment of a nerdy Hip Hop inspired programming developed for the Youmacon convention in Detroit, with help from the Motor City Street Dance Academy of Detroit. My responsibilities as head of this programming included:• Choosing the musical artists that would perform• Working with Youmacon staff to coordinate on planning and booking musical artists• Developing video visuals for musical artists to have played during the performance• Developing music for the performance• Creating promotional material for the event (Photography, illustrations, video, etc)• Manage social media promotion and event pages• Developing a program script for musical artists, host, and Youmacon staff to follow for the show• Performing in the performance

The musical Hip Hop artist Mega Ran, along with Richie Branson and K-Murdock, were planning a tour to the United Kingdom in May. Working with Mega Ran, we developed a title with that combined a song title and the location they were heading to. My job was to take this information and created a visual theme for the tour’s promotional material. Combining the colors of the Union Jack flag with three video game like character representations of the artists, a unifying theme was made.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

As a DJ for WIDR, it was my responsibility to manage broadcasting music the radio station. This included responsibilities such as selecting music for my program block's broadcast, document the songs played for record keeping, responding to callers, and more.

Illustration

Graphic Design