• Manage a creative services team that provides graphic design, web development and video production services to departments across the University of Minnesota.• Continually research emerging technologies and marketing solutions to provide to University departments, such as creating a way to mass-produce personalized variable videos for virtual commencements and add variable images to mass email marketing campaigns.• Meet with departments across campus to communicate our products and services, as well as consult with them on solutions to fit their unique needs and budgets, delegating projects to our team and managing the longer large-scale web and video projects.• Conduct training with our creative team, as well as clients across the University, including creating training videos for departments and online curriculum.

• Designed and developed over a dozen responsive websites each year for departments and organizations throughout the University of Minnesota.• Designed an annual 112-page printed orientation guide each year for incoming freshman.• Created numerous HTML emails to work with multiple email distribution services.• Developed interact PHP forms for several custom wall calendars with variable-printed content and design, allowing those ordering to choose the design, photos, copy, etc.• Create custom Wordpress themes and well-documented HTML templates for clients who want to populate their own sites.• Produced promotional videos for departments across the University, including custom motion graphics, for use on websites and augmented reality print campaigns.• Created interactive augmented reality campaigns for use in printed publications, posters, signage and direct mail.• Participated in the University of Minnesota Communicators Forum as a board member and co-chair of the conference committee.

• Develop new brand identities and websites for several companies/organizations.• Design newsletters, brochures and other print material for various clients.• Design trade show booths and conference materials for national and global conferences.• Conduct market research, write marketing plans and develop marketing strategies.

• Taught Graphic Design Production courses in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and HTML & CSS.• Created a series of instruction videos for online courses.• Taught Intro to Web Design at Augsburg College, covering UI/UX design, prototyping, HTML, CSS, JS, accessibility, and SEO.• Taught Wordpress theme development to advanced web design students.• Supervised independent study students in advanced web design, when needed.

• Responsible for designing and implementing corporate brand for internal pieces, including four 12- to 16-page catalogs in 2008.• Managed design and compliance of seasonal direct mail program, which included 17 seasonal designs and consisted of 76 design documents.• Handled design awards submissions for our design team, resulting in 22 national design awards for our department in three years.• Coordinated and developed new processes between multiple locations due to recent acquisitions and mergers.• Handled large projects and issues that arose when the creative director was out of the office.• Wrote regularly for company publications and assisted as a back-up marketing copywriter.

• Provided ongoing intelligence support for Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific.• Provided photography and public affairs support for command and unit events.• Provided public affairs support for the Duluth Air Show in 2003 and published three event photos with the Associated Press.• Reserve Intelligence Area 10 Bluejacket Sailor of the Year – 2004• Minnesota Bluejacket Sailor of the Year – 2003

• Created direct mail programs, posters, brochures and other print material with an average turn-around time of less than 48 hours for financial institutions nationwide.• Designed quarterly newsletters for 11+ clients.• Managed our youth marketing Web programs for over two months until a full-time Web designer was hired, during which time I launched 12+ client sites per week.• Shot custom photography for several campaigns.• Conducted an internal time/efficiency study within our department, including a 10-page report detailing how our department could save time and increase productivity.

• Designed an online, interactive 3-D virtual credit union (Liberty e-creditunion®).• Designed animated (Flash) screensavers for annual conference trade show booths.• Created two interactive check catalogs on CD-Rom for clients and sales reps.• Designed and produced several interactive training programs on CD-Rom.• Managed design and execution of the email newsletter CU-Mail®.