Creative Director

• Nov 2022 - Present

Reimagine and elevate the individual practice brands within the USOP portfolio across all touchpoints. Stand up processes for the growing needs of the organization. USOP is an integrated orthopedic care platform that provides the full continuum of musculoskeletal treatment to patients in the Southeastern United States. USOP has diversified orthopedic sub-specialties, ultramodern ambulatory surgery centers, fellowship training programs and comprehensive suite of ancillary services – advanced imaging, rehabilitation, pain management, urgent care, pharmacy and sports medicine. USOP is a complete provider for patients who are seeking high quality, value-based surgical care, and its sites of service currently employ over 50 physicians, and over 600 clinical and corporate staff. The organization continues to grow rapidly through its acquisition strategies and growth initiatives. Show less

Marketing Director

• Jun 2019 - Nov 2022

Marketing Coordinator

• Jun 2019 - May 2022

Creative Manager

• Aug 2012 - May 2022

While at Alabama Black Belt Adventures, I have been responsible for creating, managing, and implementing all of the print media advertising campaigns for the past two years, including advertisements appearing in Garden & Gun, Southern Living, and Sporting Classics. I also designed the marketing packages to present to the state legislatures to secure funding for the organization, and I have presented numerous reports to the Board of Directors for Alabama Black Belt Adventures. As the creative manager, I crafted and organized a Black Belt Village exhibit including over twenty-five sponsors for a statewide hunting and fishing exposition, as well as tripling the traffic for all of the social media sites, which increased exposure and funding for the organization. At Alabama Black Belt Adventures I have worked closely with the Alabama Tourism Department and various local chambers of commerce, and convention and visitors bureau to establish educational programs across the twenty-three county region of Alabama’s Black Belt. Show less

Adjunct Professor

• Jan 2013 - Jun 2019

One of the most basic and important things about being an art professor is to be accessible and to make the classroom to feel like a safe and comfortable space to share and create ideas. Art should always be approachable to everyone, not just the students coming into the class with an art background. As a professor, I try to equip my students with a sense of knowledge and ownership to ensure that all of my students feel like “art insiders” when they leave my classes. This is important when confronting the fact that not every student is going to create masterpieces in every medium they attempt to tackle. However, it is important to me as a professor to challenge them to think outside the box, and the only way they can accomplish this is in a comfortable and somewhat equalized environment. That being said, this does not mean that there is no room for friendly competitiveness and the general drive for consistent and continuous improvement. In order to facilitate this growth and self-reflection, critique is imperative in the classroom. Critiquing others’ work is a vital part of understanding how one’s peers see their ideas translate into a physical form. By analyzing and evaluating each other’s work, students are able to reflect upon their own projects in new and interesting ways. My class structure is very simple for introductory classes, with a heavy focus on technique and assigning projects that force students to challenge their preconceptions of art and specific types of art, which builds to a conceptual final. Concept is an important, and often overlooked, component of any art class. Students should understand the purpose behind their work, and they must be able to explain and discuss this purpose and all of their creative decisions for every project. I am also a proponent of using sketchbooks in every class. Sketchbooks are often utilized as busy work in studio classes, but they have so much more potential as tools for the creation and exploration of ideas. Show less

Fine Art Instructor

• Jul 2016 - Aug 2016