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Santa Barbara, Ca, Us

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Led the brand development and launch of SunstoneCalifornia.com, introducing a hemp-derived sparkling beverage to the wellness and alternative beverage market.Designed and built the SunstoneCalifornia.com website on the Shopify platform, creating a user-friendly, visually compelling online storefront that optimized the shopping experience and boosted conversions.Directed the entire creative process, including packaging design, digital branding, and product visuals, ensuring brand alignment and market distinction in a rapidly growing industry.Developed strategic content to position Sunstone California as a leading option in the alcohol-alternative category, resonating with wellness-oriented consumers.Drove influencer partnerships and social media campaigns, amplifying brand visibility and engaging key audience segments across digital channels.Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align brand messaging and product storytelling across all consumer touchpoints, resulting in cohesive brand recognition and strong market presence.

Santa Ynez, California, United States

Sunstone is a 29-year old vineyard, events, and hospitality business. It is consistently recognized as a premium wine brand with many of its wines scoring over 90, as well as the most popular vineyard for wine-tasting in the Santa Ynez Valley.Helped develop the brand, business plan and pitch deck to raise funding to cultivate cannabis in Santa Barbara County, eventually leading to the acquisition of Sunstone Winery, a 30-year old vineyard, events, and hospitality business. It is consistently recognized as a premium wine brand with many of its wines scoring over 90, as well as the most popular vineyard for wine-tasting in the Santa Ynez Valley.Redesigned, developed and launched the brand-new website, SunstoneWinery.com, and e-commerce shop.Develop content for Sunstone across all media channels. Video and photography as well as graphic design.Manage Sunstone social media channels, achieving the highest following and highest engagement rate regionally, in Santa Barbara County.We are working developing Sunstone's new projects, as well as subsidiary brands and products in the cannabis and retail space to provide new experiences and destinations for worldwide and local travelers to experience the Sunstone Brand!

Santa Barbara, Ca

Montecito Village Travel is a full service, luxury travel agency that provides custom and tailor made travel experiences. Our relationships around the globe, and our exclusive membership with Virtuoso give us the leverage to prepare the world's best vacations. Founded in Santa Barbara we have grown into the largest and most powerful travel agency on the central coast.Brought my expertise to Montecito Village Travel, a 50 year old brand in the luxury and corporate travel industry, to modernize and elevate the brand, as well as streamline all marketing materials and digital media and communication across the company. Revitalized a 50 year old brand, with a new logos and style guide.Working with a 3rd party developer and an $80k budget, I redesigned the website to position the company to scale implementing our requirement to showcase our preferred supplier partners, as well as showcase our valuable travel advisors.Developed MVT’s new marketing plan, combining both traditional and digital marketing into an annual plan, presented to our 50+ preferred suppliers, ultimately bringing in $500k in marketing budget annually.Our exclusive hotel memberships include: Belmond Bellini Club, Dorchester Diamond Club, Four Seasons Preferred Partner, Waldorf Impresario, Shangri-La Golden Circle, Stars Ritz-Carlton, The Peninsula Pen Club, Rosewood Elite, Mandarin Oriental Fan Club, Sir Rocco's Knights, Couture by Langham, Jumeirah, and Step Sofitel.

Santa Monica

The Media Grind is a social media marketing company that works with clients such as Hangar 1 vodka, Stranahans Whiskey, Fandango, BBC, and Coca Cola. Expanded on the TMG branding by developing a new logo and brand identity and improved consistency of styling throughout all of their material. Worked daily with their lead creative in designing social media graphics and animations to drive traffic through social media outlets and stand out from the crowd.

West Hollywood, Ca

the projects* is a global influencer agencyOur 2015 clients include - ABSOLUT Vodka, Chivas Regal, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Procter & Gamble, Royal Doulton, Samsung Electronics, Stoneleigh Wines, Universal Music, V Energy, Vanity Fair, Virgin, Waterford Crystal & Westfield.My role was to design pitch decks to win new business, design and develop ideas for events and exisiting clientele in the event and digital space.#liveintheprojectswww.liveintheprojects.com

Los Angeles, California, United States

I was part of the creative team at Golin where we brainstormed and developed ideas to keep clients such as Nintendo,Nestle, Toyota, NRG energy and Cisco engaged in real-time conversations throughout digital platforms such as social media, television, large scale media buys and paid digital campaigns.Worked with the Nintendo team to plan, strategize, execute and launch creative ideas for new campaignsCreated animations for Toyota in After Effects for Instagram and other social media outlets.Created infographics for Cisco, NRG and Nintendo featured on blogs and social mediaDesigned large scale media graphics for billboards and printWorked with creative directors to bring ideas to life for Golin’s clients including logo lockups, campaign visuals, photography and video content

Hollywood, Ca

Radical Studios is a Hollywood-based, multimedia licensing company specializing in IP creation, filmed entertainment and interactive applications for global audiences. Radical brings the best writing, storytelling and fully-painted artwork by prominent international talents to the global market. The Company specializes in identifying and producing high concept properties.As lead designer my tasks were managing and producing all design work needed. Responsibilities included:All of the companies graphic design, branding and marketing materials for Radical and each of it’s subsidiaries ran through meDeveloped the companies digital landscapeLed the social media campaign development, design and execution5 years of San Diego tradeshow design including booth design, banner design, featured project preview booklets, posters, landyards, bags, apparel and much more