Three of Indy's top live music and event venues all in one location - HI-FI (400 cap indoors), HI-FI Annex (900 cap outdoors) and LO-FI Lounge (100 cap indoors) - all in the heart of Fountain Square. HI-FI produces national and regional touring bands six nights a week and supports a wide range of special event rentals. HI-FI is consistently regarded as the best sounding music venue in Indiana.

Co-Owner, Talent Buyer, Marketing, and Sponsorship for Indianapolis based concert promoter - My Old Kentucky Blog Presents (MOKB Presents.) Upcoming event schedule at www.mokbpresents.com or follow @mokbpresents on Twitter.

Advocacy and support for Indiana's independent entertainment and live music venues fighting to survive economic hardships.

Do317.com is Indy's go-to event guide for happenings in and around Indianapolis. Visit http://www.do317.com or follow @do317 on Twitter.

Special Project Development with focus on online marketing, e-commerce development and new business initiatives.

Festival Director for the Monolith Festival at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, a two-day live music festival featuring 5 stages, 70 national performing artists and 18,000 fans. Performing artists included Kings of Leon, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, Justice, Silversun Pickups, Flaming Lips and hundreds more. Duties included start up launch, national marketing, talent buying, ticket pricing and research, oversee media team, create and sell sponsorship packages ($1M+), manage staff and wear a number of hats simultaneously while juggling fire.

Entertainment company with focus on a premium seat program at various national concert/sporting facilities. Duties included developing local and national sponsorship programs, maintaining and membership into premium seat program and working with corporate partners to increase ancillary revenue at the facilities.

Artist Manager for two developing artists. Secured national recording contract, agent and media team for Margot & the Nuclear So and So's. Day to day responsibilities included daily communication with record company and media team, review contracts, advance tour dates, target marketing, album setup and release, artist booking, rehabbing old tour vehicles and begging the record company to buy new transmissions (specialty!)

Indianapolis-based music festival and music industry convention. Each year the Midwest Music Summit featured over 300 performing artists playing live events in 20+ music and art venues. In addition, MMS annually featured 12 seminars focused on cutting edge topics within the music and entertainment industry. The event was recognized by the Mayor of Indianapolis, numerous community organizations and the media as a pinnacle event in the evolution of the Indianapolis music community. Day to day responsibilities included: talent buying for 300 plus artists, create and sell sponsorship packages, regional and national marketing plan, create seminars and secure guest speakers (Microsoft, Amazon.com, Def Jam, MTV, etc), manage relationships with music venues and oversee overall event production.

Indianapolis-based record company (Start-Up). Benchmark Records produced and released 8 albums from local artists including The Pieces, Loretta, Otis Gibbs and America Owns The Moon. Additionally, Benchmark produced the popular Benchmark Battle of the Bands competition at The Patio. Daily diggs included artist research and scouting, artist contracting, oversee production and new release roll-out, tour marketing, creative retail incentives, work with various distribution channels, create non-traditional revenue and manage staff of 3 full time employees.

Account Executive for independent, commercial alternative Rock station. As a AE I was responsible for ad sales, cold calls, client relationships and station event setup and execution.

Small independent music label where I got my first taste of the music industry. Interned for 1 year and was eventually hired on as the Retail and Distribution Manager. Daily tasks included record store cold calls, communicate new releases to distribution channels, create retail incentives, daily radio station tracking calls and travel to record stores to create point of purchase displays.

Full-service media manufacturing facility and warehouse specializing in replicating DVD and Compact Discs, warehousing and fulfillment. Daily responsibilities included operating up to 20 digital and analog cassette duplicators, quality control, fork lift operator and shipping manager.