at UST Global
Kansas City, Missouri Area
at UST Global
Kansas City, Missouri Area
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2009 — Present (1 month)
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2001 — Present (8 years )
Freelance design and consulting company, / thirtytwo (slant 32) was created to help smaller brands with a multitude of design services: print, interactive, online marketing, websites, micro-sites, presentations, identity design, campaign messaging and original photography. I interacted directly with clients, managed new business relationships, managed time lines and scope, produced, developed, and implemented.
Currently slant32.com is the archived portfolio of work created during active client interaction. New updates reflect personal projects not for profit.
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 5 months)
Managing an interactive team to help solve Transformational Design needs. Strategic Think & Do-Tank collaboration, Person-Centric research/solutions, and compelling insights.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2007 — June 2007 (6 months)
While at TMPDM I created numerous visual solutions for clients, helped develop internal branding campaigns, and participated as an industry expert on visual communications to both internal and external clients. I interacted with all levels of the organization to benefit the core TMPDM brand and corporate message.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2006 — January 2007 (1 year )
Responsible for all things related to interactive technology as it related to clients both external and internal. Creative and technology solutions were recommended, prototyped, developed, tested, presented and created. Types of work/projects included website architecture, SEO analysis, dynamic presentation creation, content management development, interactive branding, word-of-mouth campaigns, new business, and client retention.
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
2002 — 2006 (4 years )
Creative and visual lead for hrblock.com, taxcut.com & most internal online H&R Block properties. I re-desigend hrblock.com through three tax seasons, taxcut.com through two (one year was a minor update). Responsible for massive A/B testing initiative, working closely with internal IT and SEO resource, tightly connected to copyrighting team and executive management. Smaller design and creative consulting assignments varied across the entire corporate organization (occasionally including individual branch locations).
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
Interactive creative resource for internal application GUI design, internal promotional branding prototyping, video and Flash integration, application design, and micro-site creation and execution. Worked with the internal marketing department to help solve for online solutions and consistent corporate messaging. Heavily integrated within the IT department.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year )
Web production and interactive design. Mini Flash application and animation creations. Website and micro-site pitching. Traditional identity design recommendations. Internal branding concepts and implementation. Original photography creation.
(Aviation & Aerospace industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Allowed access to the worlds largest clean-room, I was the head photographer and digital designer for Swales Aerospace. I shot original photography of the FUSE satellite, EO-1 satellite, and multiple shoots at Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Island. Multiple micro-sites for internal NASA teams were developed, original flight patch designs, brochures and Flash applications.
BFA Advertising Photography , Digital Media, Print Design, Interactive Design, Multimedia Design, Photography, Fine Art , 1995 — 1998
Accepted into Honors Show (Cancer Series) 1997 - Junior Year
Fine Art , Painting, Photgraphy , 1994 — 1995
Stephanie Ann Roper scholarship recipient, 1994
1990 — 1994
Interactive Multimedia, User Centered Design, Classic Auto Restoration (specifically Classic Porsche's), Search Engine Optimization, Analytics Reporting, High Quality Digital Photography, Silver Based Photography, Bill Doak
PCA, LSSA