Standard + Twain is an online cigar retailer who provides unique cigar experiences, from their own cigar brands to events and a monthly blind tasting cigar membership.

• Provided phone and email support for external customer base• Managed account and billing issues for over one hundred thousand members of subscription based budgeting site• Communicated recurring issues to the Quality Assurance team in order to improve website functionality

Developed and implemented strategies for recruiting a network of young adult leaders to train and equip in fields of business, non-profit and the arts with focus on improving communities around the world. • Revamped marketing and recruitment model by increasing personal customer service, resulting in 40% student growth in two years• Mentored students in personal development, leadership development, start-up ventures, and strategic goal setting• Directed redesign and branding strategy for G42 website• Assisted in maintaining contact with alumni in over 25 nations

Responsible for direct communication with potential applicants for the World Race, as well as expanding global customer base and promoting new marketing strategies. • Conducted personal interviews to determine if applicant is good fit for intensive global journey• Maintained annual growth trend among more diverse and creative international route options

• Led a team of six “racers” doing relief projects across the world. One month projects in Ecuador, Peru, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cambodia and Thailand that included rescuing child prostitutes, aiding disaster victims, teaching English, working with the Masai tribe, bringing electricity to remote villages, and building orphanages. Haiti, June 2010• Emergency relief effort mentoring earthquake survivors and rebuilding orphanage housing seventy children • Aided diseased, malnourished and abandoned orphans from over-populated and derelict hospitals post-earthquake, including City Soleil, regarded by the United Nations as the poorest area in the Western Hemisphere

Print Writing • Attained extensive and diverse experience in magazine and newspaper writing while contributing feature stories ranging in location from Nicaragua and Iraq to New Zealand for nationally recognized magazines such as Smoke, Cigar Press, New Man, Golfer’s Tee Times, and European Cigar Journal, as well as local publications like The Daily News Journal and Middle Tennessee Mass Comments • Served as the U.S. Correspondent for Sorted, the United Kingdom’s leading Christian men’s magazine with readership of 120,000 monthlyWebsite Writing • Created and edited web content for Solidaris Intercultural Services and administered and frequently contributing to CAO International’s blog ‘All Access’• ‘Another Day in the Life. In the Mud. In the River. In Ecuador.’ blog selected as a March 2011 Featured Blog by the World Race website

• Worked under President Tim Ozgener and Director of Lifestyle Marketing Jon Huber• Involved in product testing and evaluation, including the 'Lx2', voted a top 25 Cigar of the Year by Cigar Aficionado Magazine• Planned and represented CAO at IPCPR trade show in Las Vegas, and was essential in organizing CAO’s VIP concert and after-party in the Palm’s Sky Villa• As Brand Ambassador, hosted CAO celebrity event following ABC’s Country Music Awards