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Experience

My talents and experience span a wide range across the graphic design and creative management fields, and my ability to effectively breakdown and translate complex concepts into visually compelling information has made me a recognized leader in the marketing, communications, and government industries. As an award-winning creative leader, my talent for unifying corporate branding, creating fresh and engaging marketing campaigns, and bolstering corporate awareness, have helped many companies gain traction in a very competitive market. I'm always looking for the next challenge, so how can I help you?

Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.

Work

2018 - Present

Senior Director of Marketing and Branding

Buchanan & Edwards

McLean, VA

  • Leads the Marketing Department and oversees all branding marketing activities. Estab-lishes and executes the corporate marketing and branding vision and associated activities at all levels of the organization. Oversees the brand planning process inclusive of the def-inition of target customers, in concert with BD and Operations Leadership, and develop the strategy for penetration.

  • Leads the development and refinement of the brand messages and creative designs and drives cross-functional collaboration across the organization in the creation and future leverage of brand messaging. Leads  customer-facing communication approaches and is the primary point of contact for external partners, facilitating a strong working relation-ship and proper representation of Buchanan & Edwards.

  • Mentors contributing members and junior marketing resources, assisting in the execution of their duties upon request, ensuring professional growth, and preparing them to take on larger and more complex tasks as individual contributors.

  • Establishes company branding building strategies across all functional areas and within customer segments. Developes, in concert with BD and Ops leadership, go-to market campaigns, monitors strategy performance, and makes updates or improvements as need-ed to achieve the goals of each campaign.

  • Works closely with Account Leadership to increase brand demand and augment market-ing plans. Develops, deploys, and enhances strategies across the corporate website, social media, and digital/print campaigns.

  • Collaborates closely with Human Resources to develop effective recruitment approaches to attract a highly skilled and competitive workforce to Buchanan & Edwards by leverag-ing the overall brand identity and focused campaigns across social media, website, and print materials.

  • Acts as the organizational lead for Public Relations, working with external vendors, to gain traction in media outlets that play a major role in furthering brand awareness efforts and the corporate and senior executive level.

  • Stays informed of industry best practices and emerging strategies that maintain brand and marketing strategies at a high level and ensure a competitive edge in brand awareness. 

2017 - 2018

Associate - Multimedia Lead Designer

Booz Allen Hamilton

McLean, VA

  • Support Transactional Team design and development requests for internal training modules

  • Work with clients and stakeholders to produce all phases of video and animation productions

  • Manage external print production and various other service-based vendors

  • Uphold a high level of quality in designs as directed by the Booz Allen design process and style guides

  • Design motion graphics and animation templates for quick turn projects that require high quality and large distribution

  • Create corporate and client print collateral to include ad slicks, publications, brochures, and fact sheets

  • Design and format presentation graphics for high visibility briefings and training

  • Create infographics that effectively convey complex information in an easily understandable format

  • Assist and direct mid and junior level designers on design standards and aesthetics

  • Perform quality assurance checks on print and digital designs to ensure standards are upheld

2015 - 2017

Creative Production Team Leader - Analyst

Cubic Corporation

Alexandria, VA

Provide creative direction for a nationwide campaign to develop, design, produce, and deliver the customized FBI/NRC Crisis Response Tool (CRT) for all power plants located in the United States, by providing team management, design inspiration, quality control, opportunity reviews, and implementing new innovations.

2007 - 2015

Creative Director

A-T Solutions/PAE

Fredericksburg, VA

Head of creative design initiatives leading strategic vision, corporate communications, new business development, and department growth and development. Designing and managing cross-platform digital media and marketing projects, budgets, and department productivity to support various business units within the company structure. Key role in ground up development with both visual and written strategic corporate directives, to rapidly grow business and penetrate key markets.

2006 - 2007

Senior Multimedia Designer

CorpComm, Inc.

Fredericksburg, VA

Led major design campaigns for both government and private sector initiatives, while managing and growing internal marketing requirements to meet corporate goals. Established an internal training and recognition program to promote cross-training employees and recognize employee accomplishments. Participated in thought leadership efforts to grow business development and market brand awareness. Met with high ranking clients to establish creative service needs and identify solutions for optimum desired results.

Education

2005

VIRGINIA COMMONWEATH UNIVERSITY

Communication Art and Design

Emphasis - Kinetic Imaging

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Richmond, VA

2003

Germanna Community College

Education and Learning

Associates in Education

Fredericksburg, VA

Accolades

  • Washington Executive 2020 Pinnacle Award Finalist - Marketing Executive of Year | DC/Metro Region

  • DOS Award and Letter of Recognition for Accounts Receivable Branch (ARB) Program

  • Government Communicators Award for Video, Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP-J) (2006)

  • Government Communicators Award for Video, Distributed Learning System (DLS) (2007)

  • Letter of Recognition, Mobile Counter-IED Training (MCIT) Development Lead (2007)

  • Letter of Recognition, Exceptional Work Contributions (2008)

  • Letter of Recognition, Exceptional Work Contributions (2011)

  • Letter of Recognition, Company Solutions Room Museum Establishment (2011)

  • Gold Award, League of American Communications Professionals, The A-T Connection Newsletter (2012)

  • Silver Inkwell Award, International Association of Business Communicators- DC, The A-T Connection Newsletter (2013)

  • Letter of Recognition, SPADAC/GEOEYE Predictive Analytics Overview Video for First Responders (2013)

  • Nomination, Team Player of the Year (2013)

  • Stevie Award, The A-T Connection Newsletter (2014)

  • Letter of Recognition, Exceptional Support of the Weapons Technical Intelligence (WTI) Training Curriculum (2014)

  • Letter of Recognition, Office of Bombing Prevention (OBP) MJIEDSP Video for First Responders and Stakeholders (2015)

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