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Purpose

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Accomplished visual storyteller using creativity, technical skills, and experience to deliver meaningful work that serves a greater purpose. I take a holistic, collaborative approach to every project, building strong relationships with clients and fellow artists to bring ideas to life with clarity, impact, and care.

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Experience

Multiple Roles at State of Tennessee

- Manage more than 25 creative projects annually, developing engaging learning experiences for the Department of Human Services with an 11-person team.
- Develop concepts from style sheets and timelines through stakeholder meetings to final delivery.
- Collaborate with creatives, management, customers, and stakeholders to ensure timelines, learning objectives, ADA compliance, branding standards, and intuitive design are met or exceeded.
-  Create visually and emotionally compelling materials for complex subject matter on a minimalist social services budget.
- Produce learning modules, presentations, infographics, animations, guides, and videos as needed.
-  Managing deployment of employee equipment, applications, account management, and access provisioning throughout the lifecycle of a 4,000-staff agency.
- Consistently receive exceptional ratings in mandatory Federal audits for timely, accurate delivery.
- Lead and implement a large-scale project to eliminate unused accounts, reducing waste by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Freelance and Temporary Creative Project Management, Design and Photography
- Support contract projects for clients across multiple industries to develop or improve their visual and organizational brand presence.
- Define objectives and build brands, timelines, budgets, and benchmarks.
-  Manage subcontracts for vendors and additional developers.
- Design campaigns across print publications, marketing materials, websites, social media posts, and videos.
-  Photograph people, products, and events based on client needs.
- Organized and cataloged deliverables for quick and efficient access.





Education

LinkedIn Learning:   Continuing education in user experience, content marketing, design techniques, social media tools, applications refresher courses, and related topics.
- Learning Tree IT Training:    Project Management emphasis.«  Industry Specifico   Industry-specific training tailored to client needs, including state and federal government requirements.
- Western Kentucky University   BA, Photo Journalism with an emphasis in editing and graphic design


Skills

-  Visualizing products, potential challenges, and variations before production begins
 - Revitalization of existing aesthetics and style
 - Creative problem-solving
 - Design Scholar with meticulous eye for detail
-   Methodical project documentation


Application Proficiencies

-  Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition, Premier Pro, Lightroom, etc.)
-  Procreate illustrations
- Articulate 360 course design (Primarily using Storyline)
-  Vyond Animation Studio
-  Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, etc.)
-  Various Web Development interfaces based on client needs
-  Various Social media platforms and management tools