Develops, manages and produces all creative including marketing and promotional materials, environmental (large format) design for exhibitions, print and digital advertising, invitations, special events, signage and branding for museum comprising three separate sites. Manages incoming, repeating and ongoing projects, timelines, reviews/approvals, and allocated project budgets.Fully manages design, development, project management and production of 3x/annual Telfair Magazine. Researches, selects, negotiates pricing with, and maintains relationships with print and promotional products vendors. Writes/edits copy, creates original illustration and typography.

Develops branding and identity systems and crafts creative strategies businesses. Creative mediums include print, packaging, logos, website design, direct mail, environmental design and advertising. Sources and manages print production.

Crafted, planned, executed and measured marketing strategies in support of business initiatives for industry-leading luxury brand and directed creative that influenced the purchase of private aircraft products and services. Served as corporate brand manager responsible for identity development, standardization and governance throughout enterprise. Directed and developed award-winning creative including printed collateral, packaging, environmental design, direct mail, multi-channel campaigns and more. Built and led print design department comprising ten direct reports. Saw projects from ideation through production and distribution. Managed merchandising program. Managed distribution and inventory activities. Sourced and managed vendors. Member of Marketing leadership, reporting to Chief Marketing Officer. Championed education, continuous improvement, and collaboration among interdisciplinary teams comprising in-house agency. ~Authored processes, improvements and procedures yielding $250,000–500,000 annual savings in labor and cost-avoidance ~Creative Director for award-winning customer magazine– Nonstop by Gulfstream ~Revised merchandising program, earning first licensing fees in company’s history ~Managed and allocated annual budget of several million dollars

Senior Graphic Designer in charge of concept, design and development of original collateral and marketing campaigns to market and supporting the worldwide sales of Gulfstream aircraft. Team lead responsible for assessing project scope, prioritizing, art directing and supervising graphic designers from concept through project completion. Worked closely with internal customers, developing creative direction, planning projects, coordinating resources art directing interns, photographers, vendors and designers. Researched and hired vendors, negotiating and using a high-level of print knowledge to obtain highest possible quality at best cost. Managed company assets and projects with budgets up to and above $300,000.00. Art directed and styled photo shoots.~Designed G650 direct mail announcement package, resulting in more than 100 initial orders; cited as the most successful product launch in aviation history~Used expert printing knowledge to save more than $220,000 per year on product brochure production~Developed a print-on-demand system and supporting website to customize and order company holiday cards, saving labor and cost

Executed print and television advertisement design, billboard design, print design, identity design, concept, layout and production for a busy advertising firm. Liaised with clients and handled multiple simultaneous projects. Client list included: Coca-cola, Savannah-Hilton Head International, Savannah CVB, Wendy’s, Comcast, Sea Island Bank, Beauty of Nature, Savannah Chamber of Commerce, Genesis, WRHQ and many more.~Designed current logo and identity system for Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport

Executed print advertisement concept and layout, catalog design and layout, photo styling, art direction, logo design, typography, trade show and showroom signage for world’s largest wholesale distributor of balloons and coordinating gifts.