Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

In graphic design school I learned to simplify things. I like art, campfires, and computers. I have a creative and imaginative mind allowing me to create and design in unique ways. I was tricked into visiting The Portfolio Center, a graduate school for graphic design. I was so impressed by the work and an inspiring talk from Hank Richardson, the president of the school, that I enrolled the following semester where I became a student of Media Architecture (now called New Media).

I have been fooling around on computers since I was 10 years old. Plugging phone lines into modems and getting myself in trouble became quite a hobby. I played computer games and became part of online communities. I taught myself to build my computers and use photoshop to create my own graphics. I built websites and even started making my own climbing videos, just to learn how to use the latest programs. It was these pictures, websites, and videos that I used as a portfolio to apply to the Portfolio Center.

Interestingly enough I did not end up creating a portfolio at The Portfolio Center. A job came up at the National Outdoor Leadership School that I could not pass up. One portfolio short of a graphic design job, I packed up and moved to Wyoming to work in a basement cleaning gear for wilderness medicine classes.

I absolutely love campfires. The most honest and fun social gatherings have taken place around campfires. You get mesmerized by the glow and warmth of the fire. I love being outside, climbing rocks, exploring canyons and forests, and sleeping under the stars. This is why I moved to Wyoming. A year after cleaning gear a job opened up within NOLS that seemed to be a culmination of everything that I have worked towards and love. It was a creative and technical job that dealt with getting people outside. I applied and became the Social Network Engineer for NOLS.

Work History

• National Outdoor Leadership School
• Social Network Engineer
• Febuary 2009 to Present

• -Planning next steps for nols.edu site and potential uses of new media
  -Edit and create nols.edu webpages using HTML, CSS, and Javascript
  -Aggregate and promote media relevant to NOLS and the industry
  -Write and edit weekly e-newsletters to 55,000 alumni and prospective students
  -Manage and nurture all major social networks with over 20,000 members total

  Follow this link for a more detailed look about what I do for NOLS:
  http://thewildfirecompanion.com/2009/08/nols/

• Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS
• Data & Logistics Assistant
• September 2007 to Febuary 2009

• -Attended In-town Leadership seminar
  -Worked with Clark Lacy on Data Merging Project
  -Entered over 8000 students into WMI Database
  -Responsible for timely repacking of 50 gear sets

Education

• Portfolio Center
• Graphic Design, Media Architecture, Graphic Design
• 2005 - 2007

• Woodward Academy
• High School Diploma
• 1995 - 1999