I began my professional career back in 2003 while still in college, doing desktop publishing for the campus paper.
While also in college in 2003, I had my first experience of working remotely for a client, creating these custom bicycle jerseys for the annual Solvang Century ride which took place in CA. I remained with this client until 2020.
Upon graduating college with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and minor in marketing, I re-located to SLC, UT with efforts of creating balanced work/recreate lifestyle.
I began working for Pearson Publishing’s education branch, doing desktop publishing for ELL workbooks used by over 3 million students in Mexico.
After Pearson, I worked freelance projects under my LLC until I was hired in 2010 by E. Excel International. At E. Excel I initially began as a graphic designer, and worked my way up to Senior Graphic Designer, then to Art Director, and eventually landing on Communications Director.
E. Excel was a great place for me to hone my design skills as I worked on a vast variety of different types of projects, ranging from campaign branding, to desktop published monthly magazines, social media adds, web design, large format stage and event branding, professional event A/V, packaging design and more.
Once I took a management position leading the creative marketing team, I began driving projects such as web development, mobile app development, conceptualizing and executing the full branding of every campaign, planning and delivering content for mobile app, web, socials, executive trainings, company wide presentations, and all official outgoing company communications. The experience was invaluable as I’ve seen behind the curtain, and I know all of the modern marketing levers to pull to keep a company humming full speed ahead.