About

Freelance Visual Designer | Marketing
ATKCO, Inc., 2019 – present

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create marketing assets to promote company brand; create landing pages for various courses and events
• Assist is creation in automated online marketing campaign(s) using email mailing lists and other forms of social media to promote brand.

UX Design Intern
Oracle, April 2018 – May 2019

Duties and Responsibilities

• Used agile/sprint methodologies while working within established design framework to create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for software UI.
• Responsible for Sketch component library; created, edited and organized more responsive assets, resulting in expeditious creation of design specs & prototypes by UX team.
• Primary designer for software feature, Timesheets. Periodically tasked with updates to the main interface design of the feature as well as other settings and UI features with in Prime and other Oracle platforms.

Digital Engagement Specialist
U.S. Navy, Sept. 2009 – Aug. 2016

Duties and Responsibilities

• Documented military operations through photography/videography, and interviews.
• Created logos & graphics, and magazine-style newsletters, using modern layout & design methodologies.
• Create strong online presence by strategically using social media to educate and bring in to focus purpose of the Navy mission in Europe & Africa; resulting in audience growth on social media from 13,000 followers to over 300,000 during three-year period.

Interactive Digital Media
Drexel University, bachelors in science
June 2019 [GPA 3.65]

• Project-based learning in range of disciplines: User Experience & User Interface; Web & Mobile Development; Information Architecture and Content Strategy; Project Management; Digital Design Tools

Public Affairs & Digital Media
Defense Information School, certification
June 2010 [GPA 3.7]

• Training in public affairs; written, photo and broadcast journalism; graphics; electronic imaging; broadcast systems maintenance; video production and visual information management.

Liberal Arts
Schoolcraft College, associates in arts
June 2008 [GPA 3.3]

Detroit, Michigan

Louisville, Kentucky

United States

• Mount Washington, Kentucky
• Philadephia, Pennsylvania
• McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey
• Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
• Clearwater, Florida
• Michigan (various)

Overseas

• Naples, Italy
• Guam, USA

Africa

• Ghana
• Morocco (various)

Asia

• Pattaya City, Thailand
• Hong Kong, China
• Philippines (various)
• Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Europe

• Barcelona, Spain
• Bruges, Belgium
• Dublin, Ireland
• Prague, Czech Republic
• France (various)
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• London, England
• Berlin, Germany
• Italy (various)

Traveling, reading, building Legos, going to the movies, playing video games, enjoying the occasional cigar and scotch, spirit tastings at distilleries

Dark Knight trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rocky series, The Shawshank Redemption

Altered Carbon, Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Friends, Game of Thrones, Haunting of Hill House, How I met Your Mother, Lost, Planet Earth, The Simpsons, Supernatural, The Witcher

Assassin’s Creed series, Batman: Arkham series, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Final Fantasy VII, God of War (2018), Legend of Zelda (NES), Mass Effect series, Metal Gear Solid series, Resident Evil series, Super Metroid

“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate
A poet, a pawn and a king
I’ve been up and down and over and out
And I know one thing
Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up
and get back in the race”

– That’s Life (Frank Sinatra)