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Seattle, Washington, United States

• Consults with customers to establish project objectives and vision as initial point-of-contact• Generates leads via cold calls, builds relationships with prospects as a trusted advisor, and prepares quotes; documents orders and quotes using proprietary order management system• Works collaboratively with cross-functional internal departments to shepherd orders through production• Nurtures customer relationships and identifies opportunities to expand services while maintaining key accounts

Seattle, Washington, United States

Independent consultancy catering primarily to galleries, businesses, private collectors, & interior designers via multiple mediums. • Produces portraits, illustrations, logo designs, architectural renderings, hand-lettered signs, digital illustrations, and private commissions for a diverse range of individual and small business clients• Performs contracted services relating to photo retouching & pre-press preparation for various retail products• Creates flyers, social media illustrations, designs, & layouts for musicians, real estate listings, & restaurants, as well as CD packaging designs for musicians & paper/chalkboard menu designs for restaurants; clients include:○ Mitchell Delicatessen (East Nashville, TN): Designed & hand-lettered magnetic menu system for deli/restaurant, in addition to designing & illustrating flyers, social media ads, & a large-scale mural on canvas○ Rudie's Seafood & Sausage (East Nashville, TN): Created design, layout, & illustrations for restaurant menu, as well as a hand-painted wall mural, painted portrait of restaurant's namesake, flyers and social media ads for special events, & illustrations for restaurant-branded merchandise○ Provence Breads & Cafe, Vanderbilt Law School (Nashville, TN): Developed layout, design, & hand-lettering for two large chalkboard menus, as well as ancillary restaurant signage○ Nashville Scene 25th Anniversary Paper Box (Nashville, TN): Selected as one of 25 local artists to design and present a repurposed Nashville Scene paper box in honor of the weekly paper’s 25th anniversary○ Bella Bakery (East Nashville, TN): Created design, layout, and illustrations for a 15-foot chalkboard restaurant menu & hand-rendered all images in chalk; designed & installed all interior, exterior, & window decal signage

Nashville, Tennessee

Archive, digitize, and retrieve Health Department files in accordance with HIPAA laws and guidelines. Secure records from outlying department clinics and transfer to MPHD archive warehouse for processing. Oversight and management for archiving all MPHD COVID testing documentation.

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Nashville, Tennessee

Consultative overlay for servers, storage arrays, and networking along with peripherals and services, tailoring solutions for customer’s data center and enterprise computing needs and budget.Received extensive technical training of Dell EMC’s full data center product line.

Franklin, Tn

Retouched and restored old or damaged photographs, created giclée prints, scanned original artworks into high resolution digital files, and created large format prints for oversized ads and commercial/business wall-hangings

Greater Nashville Area

Media production firm specializing in premedia print, digital imaging, and interactive production services for corporate marketing departments, ad agencies, and retail catalog publishers. Clients included Victoria’s Secret and National Geographic Kids. • Prepared pre-press images using a variety of print and web media in a deadline-intensive environment; included:○ Color matching, color correction, image retouching, and layer structure organization using Photoshop○ Layout extensions, soft proofing, masking, multi-image composing, and compositing○ File naming, organization, and structure organization○ Garment updating; photographed updated garments on in-studio models/mannequins, composited new garment into existing image from on-location shoot, and matched color, atmospheric lighting, and light/shadow to original image

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Oversaw production, quality control, and inventory for a small local food producer

Painting

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Fine Art, Illustration