Expe­ri­ence

Mar­ket­ing Coor­di­na­tor — Seat­tle Met­ro­pol­i­tan Credit Union | June 2006 – Present

Cre­ative Devel­oper — I’ve have exten­sive expe­ri­ence with and feel at home using the Adobe Suite of appli­ca­tions for cre­ative pro­duc­tion. Design­ing for print, devel­op­ing for the Web, and devel­op­ing con­cepts for and illus­trat­ing brand iden­ti­ties are among my core com­pe­ten­cies. My cre­ative skill set gives me “hands on” under­stand­ing of the cre­ative and pro­duc­tion processes and pro­vides me a unique abil­ity, built from the ground up, to man­age and coor­di­nate those processes.

Project/Vendor Man­ager & Cam­paign Coor­di­na­tor — I’ve been the PM for well over 100 projects and cam­paigns rang­ing in scale from week-long events, to multi-month coor­di­nated brand­ing cam­paigns. Each of these projects and cam­paigns has required third party ven­dor man­age­ment (print­ers, design­ers, event site hosts, etc.) and resource coordination.

Chief Edi­tor — Being the lead on SMCU’s com­pany newslet­ter for over two years, I’ve bal­anced copy­writ­ing, inter­views, design, lay­out for print, as well as multi-vendor and dead­line man­age­ment. I’ve increased the qual­ity while reduc­ing the costs of the program.

Cre­ative Direc­tor & Brand Man­ager — One of my many roles is to direct and approve all of the cre­ative that is pro­duced for SMCU and make sure that pieces are high qual­ity and brand consistent.

Free­lance Clients

Cow­girls Espresso — Sage Homes North­west — Vert­erra at Whid­bey Island — The Vil­lage at 15th

Recog­ni­tion

2009 CUES Golden Mir­ror Awards for excel­lence in credit union mar­ket­ing & com­mu­ni­ca­tions on a national level:
Radio (1st Place)
Pub­lic Rela­tions (1st Place)
GMA Golden Shoe­string (A cam­paign cre­at­ing the largest impact with the small­est bud­get) Award Video & Media Coverage

2009 CUNA Dia­mond Awards for excel­lence in credit union mar­ket­ing & com­mu­ni­ca­tions on a national level:
Pub­lic Rela­tions (1st Place)
Print Adver­tis­ing (Award of Merit)

2008 CUNA Dia­mond Awards for excel­lence in credit union mar­ket­ing & com­mu­ni­ca­tions on a national level:
Direct Mail Piece (Award of Merit)

2007 WCUL Spec­trum Award for excel­lence in credit union mar­ket­ing & com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the state of Wash­ing­ton:
Coor­di­nated Cam­paign (1st Place)

Tools

  • Adobe Cre­ative Suite 3 (Ps, Ai, Id, Dw, Fl)
  • HTML5, CSS3, Word­Press, JQuery, PHP5
  • Final Cut Pro, iMovie
  • MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point, Out­look, Entourage)

Edu­ca­tion

Pacific Lutheran Uni­ver­sity — BBA Mar­ket­ing Man­age­ment & Adver­tis­ing (Cum Laude) — Grad­u­a­tion May, 2006

A Lit­tle More About Me

I love my fam­ily, my friends, music, camp­ing, Macs, pack­ag­ing design, bar­be­quing, & a good cask-drawn ale. I also have an awe­some Boston Ter­rier puppy, her name’s Bella (no, not after Twi­light). I’m a Pacific North­west native, and I can’t imag­ine grow­ing up and liv­ing in a bet­ter place.