I make complicated things more approachable and fun through design. It’s my superpower. I started my career working in journalism, as a news designer and illustrator for Gannett in Phoenix. There, I worked to tell visual stories everyday for 10+ newspapers designing A1 covers, business news, feature sections and the illustrations and graphics that went with them. I took those skills to east coast in 2014, where I worked as the design editor for the Baltimore Business Journal. In 2015, I made a jump into tech.Today, I run a creative team for Cisco Talos, the security intelligence group within Cisco Systems. At Talos, I’m a fierce brand defender and creative firefighter. My team handles any and all creative needs for our team of almost 500 researchers, analysts, incident responders and engineers. I’m still communicating complex topics in my work, but today my content involves a lot more technical terms.My first boss once told me that my default is better than other people’s default. I laughed at him, but years later I realized he was right. If it’s visual, I care about it and if it’s broken, I’ll fix it. I'm not lazy and it's important to create a culture around me that feels the same. I just want things to make sense and look good, ya know? But if I’m being honest, I don’t want to lead a team that produces default work. I want to create work that’s polished, fun, and edgy, but above all, reflects the brand and content it represents. That's my mission every day. Let's talk about it.
Listed skills include Indesign, Illustrator, Graphic Design, Layout, and 34 others.