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Résumé

Creative Director + Brand Builder

San Diego · Remote · Available to travel

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5 current roles

Now

  1. Jul 2026 – Present

    Brand Manager

    Turning Point Ministries · Passages

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    • Lead brand and creative direction for Passages, the next-generation ministry of Dr. David Jeremiah’s Turning Point Ministries.
    • Set the creative roadmap ahead of launch across shows, guests, editorial themes, travel-led stories, campaigns, and journals.
    • Choose and invite guests, write scripts, and edit video, selecting the footage and cuts for each piece.
    • Plan how social media will be managed and posted.

    Brand management · Creative roadmap · Talent relations · Scriptwriting · Video editing · Social media strategy

  2. Nov 2025 – Present

    Creative Director

    USA Streetlifting · National

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    • Promoted from regional creative leadership to Creative Director of the national organization.
    • Lead national brand direction across identity, competition creative, event communications, and content.
    • Hire and manage photographers and designers; work with the president and handle all design.
    • Managing the national rebrand with a contract designer.

    Brand direction · Rebrand · Design systems · Hiring + team management · Executive partnership · Event campaigns

  3. Nov 2025 – Present

    Creative Director

    Phoenixeer · Contract

    • Lead creative direction for a calisthenics brand across identity, content systems, campaigns, and brand expression.

    Brand identity · Content systems · Campaigns

  4. Jun 2025 – Present

    Founder + Owner

    Verus Coffee

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    • Built a private-event coffee experience from the ground up: brand, service design, content, and client experience.
    • Shape each service around the gathering, from C-suite meetings to estate dinners.
    • Find, pitch, and sell to prospective clients, building outreach in Apollo.io.
    • Hired a designer to bring my logo concept to life.

    Founder · Brand building · Sales + business development · Client pitching · Service design · Client experience

  5. Aug 2024 – Present

    Creative Producer + Director

    Freelance

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    • Brand strategy, creative direction, and production across lifestyle, consumer, fitness, technology, and retail.
    • Clients include Off Road Gear Guys, Leeway HQ, Gather25, Hold the Rope, Logos Lab, Johnny’s Kicks, and Blueprint Creative, including work for Bose.

    Brand strategy · Creative direction · Production · Client management

2020 – 2025

Before

  1. Jun 2025 – Oct 2025

    Creative Director

    Road Armor

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    • Led creative direction for the automotive brand across photography, print, sales collateral, and events.
    • Pitched social activations and an approach for the brand on social media.

    Creative direction · Photo direction · Print + sales collateral · Events · Social pitches

  2. Nov 2023 – Mar 2025

    Art Director

    VML · U.S. Navy

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    • Designed signage and graphics for the Strike Group’s VR modules on a 50-state national tour, building on the creative director’s designs.
    • Designed the winner badge and Cannes entry deck for the team’s Subreddit Hunt campaign (Cannes Lions Gold and Silver, 2025).
    • Co-concepted two Snapchat recruitment lenses with 8.8 million combined reach.
    • Helped shape the U.S. Navy × SneakerCon pitch across product concepts, copy, packaging, and presentation.

    Integrated campaigns · Experiential design · Social AR · Award entries · Pitches

  3. Sep 2022 – Nov 2023

    Art Director

    The Integer Group / TracyLocke

    • Designed integrated campaigns for Neutrogena, Aveeno, OGX, Maui, Rogaine, and Band-Aid.
    • Designed web, email, retail, and digital work for Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS.
    • Designed pitch work to re-sign Neutrogena and for Band-Aid.

    Integrated campaigns · Retail marketing · Shopper marketing · Pitch design · Web + email

  4. 2022

    Art Director

    RBA

  5. 2020 – 2021

    Design Lead

    Blueprint Creative

Education + skills

What I bring

Education

B.S. Graphic Design · Liberty University

Key skills

  • Creative direction
  • Brand strategy
  • Brand identity + systems
  • Integrated campaigns
  • Art direction
  • Content strategy
  • Creative production
  • Video + social direction
  • Experiential design
  • Creative operations
  • Team leadership + hiring
  • Agency, in-house + founder experience