Education

Master of Fine Arts Degree
in Graphic Design – 1992
from Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA

Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
in Graphic Design and Art History – 1989
from Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL

Experience

Director of Marketing
Flat Earth Networking/Flat Earth Music, Nashville, TN
January 2011 to present

Manager of Creative Services/Web Designer & Editor
General Board of Discipleship, Nashville, TN
August 2006 to December 2010

Manager of Creative Services
Corrections Corporation of America, Nashville, TN
December 2002 to August 2006

Design Director
Belmont University, Nashville, TN
September 1999 to December 2002

Design Director
EdgeNet Media, Brentwood, TN
1998-1999

Senior Art Director
McGee Best Frank & Ingram, Nashville, TN
1996-1998

Assistant Art Director
Steve Diggs & Friends Advertising/PR, Nashville, TN
1993 to 1996

Adjunct Instructor
Watkins College of Art & Design, Nashville, TN
Grambling State University, Grambling, LA

Honors and Activities

Nominated for a Grammy Award
Packaging category, 2004

Nominated for a Dove Award
Packaging category, 2004

Four Addy Awards
Nashville Advertising Federation, 1996-2001

Two Citations of Excellence
Nashville Advertising Federation, 1995, 1998

Best of Show
Two First Places
Second Place
Two Third Places
TCPRA Awards, 2002

Skills/Proficiencies

Software
Expert with Macintosh Operating System, Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver), Fireworks, Quark Xpress, Coda, MAMP, ,BitNami, WordPress, Joomla, HTML, CSS2 & CSS3, XHTML & HTML5, and is currently learning jQuery, Javascript and PHP

Creative Management & Process
Web development, coding, art direction, photo direction, concept development (visual, marketing and writing), pre-press, production, creative pitches, managing in-house and freelance designers/illustrators/photographers

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Art History, Computer Studio ! & !!, Graphic Production, HTML/CSS