Profile
I'm a creative leader with over 6 years of experience in design, marketing, and management. Through my years of design, I have managed small to medium-sized teams ensuring quality design work, developing strategic processes, and producing effective results for my clients. I am passionate about working in business development environments and directing the creation of strategic, artistic, and meaningful branding and marketing campaigns. I am driven by inspiring others and building quality relationships.
Career
My knowledge of the marketing industry has developed throughout my years of content creation, photography, videography, and graphic design. As an expert in customer experience management, I use h2h (human to human) connections to build peak moments for clients. I believe personalized connections from business to consumers are an important and growing focus within marketing. I am currently the managing director at an agency where I oversee a team of talented designers, developers, and content creators. My team helps our clients with unique projects based on customer experience, design, and marketing.
My knowledge of the marketing industry has developed throughout my years of content creation, photography, videography, and graphic design. As an expert in customer experience management, I use h2h (human to human) connections to build peak moments for clients. I believe personalized connections from business to consumers are an important and growing focus within marketing. I am currently the managing director at an agency where I oversee a team of talented designers, developers, and content creators. My team helps our clients with unique projects based on customer experience, design, and marketing.
Volunteering
Yachana Lodge and Foundation:
While I was adventuring throughout Ecuador, my travels took me down into the Amazon region where I had the opportunity to meet some incredible people making an impact on their community. While I was there, I stayed at a very remote lodge in the middle of the rainforest. The lodge is called Yachana and they donate a majority of their proceeds to building a foundation for education. During my stay, I learned more about Yachana's mission and how much they are doing to help local kids gain a better education. Kids in Ecuador, especially in the Amazon region are lucky if they make it through high school. Most kids in the region never have opportunities to gain higher education, nor understand its importance. Yachana has developed programs focused around STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) to provide real life applications and teach kids important skills. They are continuing to build and expand facilities and offer camps for kids in Ecuador by teaching STEM education. I knew I wanted to do something to help their cause and grow their foundation. I offered to volunteer my expertise and rebuilt their website, which launched in December 2019. As a result, they have been getting more bookings than ever before. I also manage their Google Ads Grant where I create ad campaigns to gain more visitors both for the lodge and for their educational programs for kids. So far, it has been an incredible experience and my Spanish is improving as well.
Visit them here: yachana.com/
The DiFiore Center:
The DiFiore Center is a nonprofit organization focused on preserving human connection through all things art. I first met the incredible people at The Difiore Center when I was looking for a life model to pose for a campaign I was directing. Not an easy thing to find a model in St. George, Utah willing to be a part of my project. I was fortunate enough to meet people willing to help me on not only one project, but several projects afterwards. In 2017, I was asked to be on the Board of Directors to provide my expertise in marketing and design and I happily agreed. I spent my term helping improve their websites, build out their social media strategies, and provide insight into the millennial age of digital communication. It was an honor to be on The Board of Directors and will forever appreciate them.
Visit them here: difiorecenter.org/
Education
In 2015, I graduated from Colorado Mesa University with my Bachelors degree in Business Administration. My primary focus was in Business Marketing and Business Management.
Lifestyle
Adventure seeker and world traveler born and raised in Colorado. My true passions outside of my professional career revolve around outdoor recreation. I am an expert skier and mountain biker, but also an avid scuba diver, surfer, and fly fisherman. In warmer months I enjoy hiking and backpacking up into the wilderness and I surround myself with friends and family who enjoy the lifestyle as much I do. My career as a designer started in college designing posters for my university. I have always had a creative edge, but my true talents started showing through my design work. Since then I’ve had several opportunities working as a freelance designer and in 2017 I started a creative agency focused on customer experience. I have been running and building the agency ever since. I specialize in graphic design, UX/UI design, and website design and development. Working in an agency setting required me to learn and adapt to my client's needs and in doing so became an expert in Adobe. I love working on motion graphic projects, video editing, and working on branding development. My talents flourish when I work on projects that align with my values and my ethos. I care deeply about companies working on making this earth a better place for everyone and my goal is to join a team as driven and dedicated as myself to tell their story through creative design and content creation.