Clearly, my cool factor peaked at 4

Skills
Strategically focused creative with a passion for brand building
Excellent presenter and client partner
Kool-aid drinker and culture builder
Love to mentor as much as be mentored 
All the necessary Adobe programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Ridiculous knowledge of artistic media & mediums

Nuggets
There isn’t a room in my house that doesn’t have a DIY piece or project.
Most are 90% finished. Rarely do they hit 100.
My chef husband and I write menus and design restaurant concepts. 
We have a draw full of fully baked restaurant concepts ready to go. 
I have tattooed my friend’s husband; I am not a tattoo artist.
Don’t believe in favorite colors: it’s bias.
Full-fledged Halloween nut.
Incorrigible shower singer.

I’m organized, think logistically and am PM minded. That left and right brain balance keeps me moving forward. It’s a skill I find rare in creatives and have come to embrace and love in myself.

I don’t know how to sit still. My idea of downtime is DIYing, photographing food, painting or chasing two crazy boys. Oh and I co-own a restaurant with my chef husband. So that’s a fun little creative playground.

Come on over and grab a bite to eat and let’s talk ads.

Experience

  • Leading creative on SharkNinja and FedEx accounts. Worked to build out our Dynamic work stream to create a large volume of strategic and crafted social content capable of producing work for over 60 projects at a time. Manage and mentor a department of teams.

  • Help lead a large volume of social projects and productions for The Home Depot. Manage and mentor teams. Concept and CD productions.

  • Oversaw and managed JR teams. Worked as CD on a website and brand launch for Shaw, a pro bono campaign for Mercy Care and for YellaWood’s largest campaign launch to date. YellaWood, Mercy Care, Woodruff Arts Center, Shaw, Mitsubishi Electric, LaRosas

  • Layout for 6th quarter Art Directors. Taught fundamentals of art direction, pulling concept through visuals, AD specifics for various media, agency basics for ADs.

  • Carnival Cruise Line, Arnold Worldwide

  • CarMax, Samsung, Crocs, Nationwide Insurance

  • Southwest, Ace Hardware, LL Bean, Caesars, HomeAway, Lennox, John Deere

  • American Airlines, SuperMedia, Discover Network

Education

  • The Creative Circus

    ART DIRECTION 2008 - 2010

  • Santa Reparta School of Art Florence

    PRINTMAKING & INDEPENDENT STUDY 2007

  • Georgia State University

    BFA Drawing & Painting 2007

Some of those DIYs, food pics and too much Halloween decorating…