• Produced weekly impactful visual stories across digital, social, and print platforms, showcasing diverse approaches and rich detail aligning with company guidelines to engage our audience.• Collaborated with the corporate social team to curate images, communicate with store photographer, and identify new opportunities for visual storytelling across platforms.• Directed and produced photographic stories for digital, social, and print, ensuring operational excellence and prioritization, elevating store's visual storytelling.• Identified new opportunities to design and create visual displays for woodshop display windows to grow independent public interest in store's classes.• Managed deliverables, assets, and workflows, ensuring accurate caption information for seamless multiplatform use.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to fabricate creative and functional store displays for tools and products. Redefined displays by leveraging diverse talents to create powerful visual storytelling.• Enhanced store displays and product placement areas utilizing problem-solving skills to maximize product space, increasing customer engagement and driving higher sales.• Set team goals for employees and ensure everyone was aware of the monthly area of focus in compliance with store merchandising standards.• Utilized management skills to run vendor product reports and order items based on historical product trends.• Created woodshop class schedules and wrote class descriptions to align with corporate expectations on our website and in monthly tabs.• Maintain visual merchandising standards by training the team on audits, down stocking reports, and ensuring that products are priced and displayed properly.

• www.CuriousCanary.com• Self-motivated web store owner that uses vivid writing skills with photography to excite customer engagement.• Curated and crafted moving photographs for a global travel blog, resulting in a significant boost in social media interaction and website visits.• Lead imaging photographer and chief editor for for-hire weddings, events, and baby shoots utilizing Lightroom, Photoshop, and color correction software.• Produced and acquired hundreds of photographs for stories for media production on digital and social platforms to drive interest on products in personal web store, elevating product curiosity with high impact storytelling.• Designed and fabricate tangible promotional items for franchises and businesses both locally and internationally.• Produced graphic and digital promotional work utilizing industry trends for local area businesses' social media platforms, magazine, and newsletter publications.• Managed and directed project installations for Damn Good Shindig's Dark Side pop-up bar in Washington, DC, and Ready Party One at Fluxx for San Diego ComicCon2018 & 2019.Shanghai, China 2015-2016• Held and taught design courses in Mandarin and English with focus in fine art and museum studies. • Managed and lead logistics for sourcing private client's products between China and the U.S.• Cultivated strong relationships with various manufacturers in China with a deep focus on quality control

• Created and installed high craft interior and window displays, was responsible for clean de-installation; maintained cleanliness and organization of back-of-house display areas; and took ownership of maintenance and repairs on the sales floor.• Applied fast-paced seasonal inspiration trends from Home Office to meet the unique store needs.• Built and fabricated fixtures and maintained signage that upheld presentation standards.• Collaborated in designing the display planning process by sharing inspiration, generating ideas, and providing sketches.• Prioritized projects and monitored progress with timelines while staying within the visual budget.• Attended store meetings to share inspiration, new ideas, and pertinent information from Home Office and Field Leadership.• Took initiative with each project to grow display experience and elevate the craft.• Engaged the customer through display work on the sales floor and drove community connection through workshops, events, and gatherings.• Demonstrated awareness and adaptability of the impact of display and merchandising on store sales and profitability.• Partnered with the visual merchandising manager to create an engaging visual experience that appeals to the customer and represents relevant trends.• Designed two- & three-dimensional displays that reflect the customer's appreciation of discovery, creativity, diversity, and authenticity.

• Collaborated with furniture and home goods manufacturers such as Charleston Forge, Detroit Wallpaper, and Mirth Studio by taking photographs and turning them into textile design elements.• Ensured the integrity of documents sent to manufacturers in China and India for production.• Fabricated 3D mock-ups for overseas manufacturers.• Worked with web developers to provide product photography to match text for website store.• Provided sourcing and research data for interpretations of global purchasing trends.• Created patterns for Print and Digital Media.• Designed textile patterns with exact color keys for jacquard woven fabric.• Developed AR experience code with object-based product for website.

• Provided customers with luxury experience using RH Design Atelier services.• Understood furniture construction and provided information on upholstery, furniture leather, drapery, and bedding fabrics.• Lead gallery stockroom logistics, shipping, and receiving.• Connected trade design clients with solutions for each of their project needs.• Installed various gallery displays.

• Continuously connect cultural and language barriers in addition to the normal curriculum.• Designed all art curriculum as well as English for secondary age and IGCSE students.• Plan art-centered outings and trips and encourage active dialogue on topics of the excursion.• Develop student's ideas by leading through artistic expression in self-discovery.

• Facilitated classroom education through personal adaptation of Disney curriculum to meet individual student needs.• Administered student progress to parents by evaluating and clarifying student strengths and weaknesses in individualized reports.• Achieved an increase in student enrolment beyond preliminary numbers.

• Designed and developed coursework that combined abstract concepts with studio practices to stimulate critical thinking.• Lead and facilitated group and individual critiques.• Encouraged conceptual thinking skills for expansion in initial rough sketches that efficiently transformed into final tangible projects.• Advised students on proper studio and lab techniques in alignment with OSHA standards of safety.• Oversaw students in woodshop projects and practices.