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San Diego, Ca, Us

Greater San Diego Area

Develop candles, stationery, accessories, and home decor items from sourcing to production; Strategized conception of in-house candle production; Work with domestic and international vendors; Create packaging and programs for an array of clients; Assist in pricing programs for various clients

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for building and manipulating creative layouts into design templates and packaging for Elum, Elum Wellness, and clients; prepares press-ready files and specification sheets for overseas vendors; constructs full-size product mock-ups; builds client presentations; conceptualizes product and packaging for all brands

San Diego, California, United States

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Responsible for manipulation of packaging for GNC and associated brands/products; maintain brand standards throughout all global packaging

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Design pages for daily newspaper (print and e-edition), write/edit captions and headlines, copy edit, publish stories to website, work with news and photo editors to present daily news

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Designed ads and editorial pages for all print publications, traffic advertisements for all print materials using Salesforce

Chautauqua, N.Y.

Worked closely with writers, photographers and editors to conceptualize and design a daily newspaper for Chautauqua Institution | www.chqdaily.com

Athens, Ohio

Work with design editor, photo editor and writers to layout pages of Southeast Ohio Magazine, a regional publication produced by students in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism.

I work with an executive board to create and produce two online magazines per quarter. I also oversee a group of about 15 designers and help them design, layout and illustrate the magazine. During production, I am responsible for compiling the magazine with photos, layouts, illustrations and advertisements.

Athens, Ohio

Co-instruct a Residential Transfer Learning Community with the Assistant Director for Articulation and Transfer Advising in Undergraduate Admissions, work with instructor and other peer mentors to plan classes, programs and events for students to make a smooth transition to Ohio University

I design and create web and print promotional materials for Ohio University within their brand standards. Pieces are sent to high school students across the country. I work closely with the Public Relations writer to develop the content for these pieces.

Create and design posters to promote events UPC holds on campus. Also work closely with the public relations team to promote events and activities.

I work with the Public Relations and Communications team to promote events on campus through Facebook, Twitter, handbills, poster creations, etc.

Write, transcribe interviews, organize information, blog, etc.

I am on the production team that puts the NSAC campaign book together. This year our client is JCPenney. The campaign book includes all the ideas creative, marketing, PR, etc. teams come up with throughout the quarter. The final product is presented to judges.

I design and create spreads for OU's first and only on-line fashion magazine.

I worked with the Public Relations officer to write press releases, write reports about the district, update the website using content management system, and create publications using Adobe InDesign.

Bachelor Of Science In Journalism; Bachelor Of Science In Visual Communication, Magazine Journalism, Interactive Multimedia

Activities and Societies: Thread Magazine, Brick Beats Magazine, University Program Council, OU Ad Association, Ohio University Multimedia.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Editor of MoonBeams (student newspaper), German Club, Key Club, Science Club, Gifted ProgramJournalism.