• Responsible for acquiring a client who increasing holberg design's total assets by 63% in 6 months.• Co-Directed the creative team who designed and produced all branding for a local winery/brewery (Wyndridge Farm) ... and in two years, helped to grow the company into one of the top 5 ciderys/breweries in the state of Pennsylvania. Wyndridge Farm is now selling their products in 10 US States. • Hand illustrated art for the Wyndridge Farm Brewing cider labels.• Responsible for acquiring an “agency-of-record” status for holberg design over three other competing agencies; re-brand of a third generation owned business, Indian Echo Caverns. In winning the client’s confidence insuring that our agency would take into consideration the sentimental attachment to their business, we were able to give them a renewed excitement about the business their great grandfather established 74 years ago. • As part of the digital sales team at holberg design, sold the largest website designed and developed by the holberg design.• As the social media director and ad designer, in 2015 took an Orthopedic hospital’s facebook page from 210 likes to over 1000 likes in just two and a half weeks.• With over 16 years of web site design and development experience, responsible for managing over 90% of the Wordpress websites designed and developed at holberg design (belco.org, susquehannariverlands.com, wyndridge.com, rhsheppard.com, indianechocaverns.com, ctsi.psu.edu, prowellness.vmhost.psu.edu and holbergdesign.com).Other responsibilities: Assistant Creative Director, Designer, Account Executive, Illustrator

• New Business Development• Website Consultant• Social Media Consultant• Computer design• Computer production

• Martin Communications’ first Web/Interactive Director. Responsible for designing and developing their first WordPress website as well as consultant to the sales force who were novices to the web.• Provided Martin Communications with another service to offer their largest client who were requesting a social media consultant, website support, and digital ads designer. Resulted in the client choosing Martin Communications to handle all of their interactive/digital needs.

• Hired to help create Moxie‘s web/digital department by finding web designers and developers that would work well with the Moxie agency.• Responsibility of web/digital Project Management to communicate and educate our clients and explain the clients needs and wants to the website developers.• Consultant to the in-house sales force so they could intelligently sell Moxie’s web design and development services.• My past agency experience was utilized to help the President of Moxie MD to make new hires for a Senior Art Director, and a Jr Art Director.

• Facilitated a partnership between our President at CH&B and a technically advanced CMS web developer to increase CH&B’s web capabilities to their fullest potential. This capability allowed us to sell to larger businesses, which in turn increased our yearly earnings an additional 47% over the previous years earnings.• Responsible for researching all client’s needs, even if it meant learning new software and/or capabilities. This gave the agency additional services which increased the number of our Full Service Agency’s capabilities.• Spearheaded CH&B’s web initiative by learning to code HTML and CSS. Communicated with the President regarding the intentions to transform our “traditional” agency, and grow it into a Full Service Advertising Agency by additionally offering interactive digital/web services. In just two years, this foresight not only gave CH&B another service to offer, but it increased CH&B’s total overall earnings by more than 137%.• Taking online night courses on SEO, as well as how to utilize Social Media to extend a clients’ brand allowed CH&B to be on the cutting edge of digital and social media. This also allowed CH&B to begin an educational outreach, speaking to local business to teach them the importance of these topics and how to incorporate them into their business’s marketing strategies.• Advanced Adobe Illustrator/ Photoshop certified; allowing CH&B to offer digital illustration and photo retouching services.• Instrumental in researching, purchasing and networking all computers utilized in the agency, as well as took on the responsibility for training personnel on new equipment and software. This increased the total amount of work coming out of the agency three-fold in just two years.• Utilizing illustration skills in watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil, allowed CH&B to bill for these services decreasing the number of freelance illustrators needed for these illustration services.

• One of 3 Principals who took an idea, communicated a concept, reached a common goal, and created a ingenious website/business – YAVarsity.com. • Other responsibilities: Logo design, site design, ad sales and design, and making contacts with potential Venture Capitalists and other interested businesses.

Product Illustration for Black & Decker®

Product illustrator

(Old School) Took halftone shots in the darkroom with a Stat camera, and processed the film. Hand color separated film for educational books. Helped the design team with custom designed projects.