Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Project management specializing in online creative production, deployment and tracking to support advertising campaigns. Ability to create order from chaos. Highly detailed, effective communicator able to organize, streamline and beautify almost anything. Music Pusher.

Work History

• The Walt Disney Company
• Interactive Producer
• September 2004 to Present

• Interactive project manager and production artist, responsible for production and deployment of most Walt Disney World online advertising, as well as various other Disney Parks, Brands, Resorts and events. Established proven efficient workflow processes for newly formed interactive production department. Work with the art director's team to ensure proper development of creative concepts. Manage and maintain ongoing relationships with various ESPs, media agencies and production vendors. Responsible for all department creative assets, from project inception to completion, delivery and archiving. Test all emails and ensure proper rendering across platforms. Deployment of flash creative through a variety of ad servers and rich media vendors.

• Haunted Audio Recordings
• Owner
• June 2009 to Present

• Digital electronic music label. I started this partnership with two associates as a digital music label, with a focus on collaborations, including live shows and eventually releases on vinyl and licensing music for broadcast.

• Systems Research Group
• Graphics Specialist

• Graphic creation, Flash animation, Actionscripting, html/css, 3d modeling and texturing, Authorware for military training modules. Interpreted a variety of written and oral instructions and applied to the project content. Converted oral presentations and handwritten notes into full-fledged training modules. Wrote scripts and storyboards, and generated detailed content for online training and distance learning. Created multimedia presentations for web and cd-rom.

• The ABN Group
• Advertising Manager

• Managed company-wide print advertising schedules including budgeting, typesetting, design, production, and placement. Solicited bids for printing and managed production budgets. Managed marketing for 20 year old music festival, including contest prizes, travel arrangements and advertising budget of $30,000. Wrote press releases for distribution to local and national media. Wrote copy for advertisements, catalogs and radio spots. Generated various print materials.

• Grand Designs
• Owner

• Freelance graphic design for web and print. Set up and maintenance of websites for a variety of non-profits and community organizations.

• Presentations South
• Art Director

• Generated large-scale graphics and coordinated all graphic production for high-volume exhibit house, with as many as 30 projects at once. Clients included Disney Quest, Florida Game and Wildlife Commission, and Citrix as well as various museums, exhibits, kiosks and tradeshows.

Education

• University of Central Florida
• Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Advertising & PR
• 1989 - 1990

• Florida State University
• Associate of Arts
• 1986 - 1988

• Activities and Societies: Study Abroad Program, London, Summer 1987 Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority