Summary:  A digital artist who has produced illustrations, web sites, and graphic design, specializing in visual communication theory.

Work Experience:

On Site Companies, St. Paul, MN.  December 2018 – Present

Marketing Manager

  • Manage all marketing.
  • Achieved a 1:7 ROI on PPC spend
  • Maintained a 6% average CTR on Google PPC
  • Create marketing plan.
  • Managed social media presence via Hootsuite
  • Create and edit video
  • Design all print and digital marketing collateral.
  • Write and execute marketing plan
  • Write copy
  • Web design
  • Manage website with WordPress
  • Create email blasts
  • Implementation and maintenance of CRM Claritysoft
  • Technologist: oversee technology for company and primary interface for outside IT company.

The Newsleaders of Sartell-St. Stephen & St. Joseph                        November 2017 – December 2018

Graphic Design and Marketing

  • Layout of two weekly papers in InDesign
  • Designed ads for local business clients weekly
  • Managed social media presence on Facebook & Twitter via Hootsuite
  • Created marketing email blasts in MailChimp and landing pages in WordPress

Leedstone, Melrose MN July 2017 – September 2017

Web Production

Temporary position working on ecommerce site, www.muddyandinca.com.  Duties included entering new SKUs into the Magento CMS, taking photos of product, and graphic design of banners for website. 

Stearns Bank, Albany MN July 2016 – July 2017

Social Media and Online Marketing

Duties: Create and post content on social media, design and deploy landing pages, create whiteboard videos in After effects, monitor social media analytics and generate reports.    

Baker White, Ramsey MN October 2015 – July 2016

Graphic Designer

Duties: Develop and deploy graphics for a variety of brands of eliquids.  Design and develop websites for a variety of brands of eliquids.  Design various logos, flyers, posters, and other collateral assets for a variety of brands of eliquids. 

Minneapolis Media Institute, Edina MN June 2010  – October 2016

Adjunct Instructor June 2010 – June 2012

Program Chair Visual Arts June 2012 – January 2015

Adjunct Instructor January 2015 – October 2015

Duties: Develop and teach classes on a variety of topics including drawing, graphic design, and web design, and UI/UX design.  Develop curriculum for visual arts programs, both the animation and game design program and the graphic and web design program, teach design classes, manage teachers, run meetings.

Freelance Designer, Foley MN  January 2015- present

Duties: Design and build web sites, flyers, logos, and other needs for a variety of clients. 

Cartoonist , Foley MN October 2002 – present

Fun Factory  June 2011 – Present

Freaks N Squeeks   October 2002 – Present

GraphicSmash (defunct)  September 2003 – July 2007

Duties: Creating content for webcomics company, GraphicSmash, writing scripts, coloring comic pages, and other art duties for web-published content.

Write and create art for daily comic strip, self-publish paper and ebooks.  Design and build websites for content delivery.    

Education:

Masters of Arts: English

St. Cloud State University May 2010

Bachelors of Fine Art: Comic Illustration

Minneapolis College of Art and Design May 2003

Memberships:

Interactive Design Foundation August 2015 – Present

Skills:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Light Room, Adobe Muse, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects, color theory, drawing, illustration, graphic design, visual storytelling, desktop publishing, typography, UI/UX design, usability testing, web design, html, css, animation, Mac OS, Windows OS, iOS, MS Office, iWork, iPhoto, WordPress CMS, Magento, writing, saxophone, bass guitar, acting, public speaking, teaching, management, curriculum development.