Skills
Direction: Proactively manage creative projects while fostering team collaboration. Leverage extensive experience with multiple stakeholders to drive concept development and production. Deliver strong direction in branding, strategy, and photography under tight deadlines. Confidently present and engage with diverse clients, vendors, and internal departments.
Design: Strong sense of typography, layout, image manipulation, package design, photography retouching, printing process, color proofing, press checking, color theory, system design, digital photography, publication design and layout, all with respect to the linear process of design and print production.
Experience
6/2024 – Present • Senior Production Artist, Mars United Commerce Denver, CO
Overview of Role: My full-time role at the Mars agency began with building a new team for the newly acquired client, Tyson Foods Inc. I was responsible for creating and maintaining a production process within the client team. My hybrid role consists of fulfilling large scale production projects that are mostly take-downs from creative key visuals. These include a large variety of digital advertisements, in-store retail marketing tactics, packaging and point of sale projects. On a daily basis I submit deliverables to a large variety of nationwide vendors and clients listed here. I am also tasked with creative ideation from time to time. I have extensive experience working with Walmart and their ad generation platforms as well as experience building multiple client brand shops on walmart.com.
3/2015 – 6/2024 • Graphic Designer, Self-Employed Denver, CO
Overview of Role: I had a variety of projects through local and national clients. My main focus was large-scale production projects and photography retouching with Mars United Commerce and Pearl Izumi. At Mars I worked in a hybrid role where I built production files for print from key visuals. These included a variety of digital projects, in-store retail marketing deliverables and packaging. Some of the clients included: Walmart, Target, Kroger, Keurig-Dr. Pepper, Mars, Four Roses Bourbon, Nivea and Late July. I do some creative work as well. At Pearl Izumi I worked on all manner of traditional marketing and digital projects. I designed every email, provided support for the website & ecomm team, as well as managed the entire product photography process and multiple digital asset platforms. I laid out over 75 pages in Shopify for the company’s website. I also spear-headed the creation of a DAM in the platform Brandfolder.
9/2012 – 5/2015 • Graphic Designer, Good Sam Enterprises & Camping World Inc Denver, CO
Accomplishments: Elevated branding and marketing platform for 7 major brands within Good Sam Enterprises - Designed multiple high-level marketing pieces alongside VP of creative - Designed multiple concepts for CNBC's TV show The Profit - Redesigned entire Coast to Coast branding and Directory
Overview of Role: Provide creative solutions to all 7 corporate brands of Good Sam Enterprises, including the Camping World Corporation. Working directly with all the marketing managers to provide creative support, such as: logos, ads, flyers, brochures, direct mailers, large format graphics, media kits, POS retail materials, magazines, multi-page directories, and some online deliverables such as static emails & web banners.
12/2010 – 8/2012 • Creative Services Manager, Globus Family of Brands Denver, CO
Accomplishments: Successfully migrated all marketing project creation to an internal creative team from previous ad agency - Designed multiple high level marketing pieces alongside CEO & VP of marketing - Personally designed 5 travel books and oversaw the production of 23 annually - Developed and managed creation of a new OnDemand printing website for internal and external sales teams - Managed the travel book re-design process for all 4 brands
Overview of Role: Hired to create an internal creative process and begin producing marketing projects after the relationship with the prior ad agency was terminated. The majority of our support went to the internal and external sales teams along with delivering materials to travel agents across the world. Our creative team of 7 designers and 1 copy editor which I managed, produced over 1,700 unique projects each year. Marketing projects included: ads, sales print collateral pieces, logos, direct mailers of varying sizes, flyers, large format graphics, posters, conference materials, trade show graphics, photography shoots and video production. Along with the creation of those materials, the creative team was also responsible for producing 23 individual travel books for international distribution each year. We produced 4 international versions in collaboration with our international offices on a chosen few as well.
technology
Proficient in; Adobe CC (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Firefly, XD), Microsoft Office Suite, Asana, Shopify, Canva, Walmart Connect, Trello, Monday.com, Workfront, BrandFolder, Multiple font and ftp management programs and MAC OS
Experience with; (minimal) InCopy, Shogun, Dreamweaver / Flash, Director, Quicktime VR and Premiere
AI
I was only half-joking with my AI disclaimer at the top. I have real functional agency and client experience with AI, not just making images for concept. I also have critical thinking regarding how and when it can be useful versus when I’m actually more effective. I have a solid working knowledge of Adobe Firefly along with the AI legal process. I have an effective understanding of incorporating AI into the ad generation creative workflow as well.
Along with my traditional responsibilities I was also placed on an internal agency task force that worked directly with an Abobe team to implement new and inventive AI processes for the agency. I have multiple Adobe AI training certifications and have worked with clients on bringing real AI generated assets to market in our advertising tactics.
education
University of Nebraska at Kearney • Bachelor of Fine Arts - Visual Communication and Design
certifications
Adobe Firefly Essential Training
Adobe Firefly Tips & Productions Techniques
Ad submission training courses for Walmart & Amazon paid media
Judging
National Fraternity & Sorority Communications Awards (2025 & 2026)
PRO BONO CLIents:
Metro Partners Denver
Maxfund Denver
HOPE SHINES
References available upon request.