Experience

Martin Aquatic Design & Engineering

• United States
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President & Creative Director

  • Apr 2013 - Present

  Orlando, Florida Area Leader of Martin Aquatic Design & Engineering, overseeing all projects and new business development.

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2013

  As the Chief Operating Officer for Aquatic Design and Engineering. I over saw the re-development of all internal systems and procedures. The redevelopment of these systems included the evaluation of the production process, human resource development, and business development processes. As the creative director, I oversaw this department as well.



Naive Clothing

• Founder

  • Sep 2003 - Nov 2009

  Orlando, Florida Area At 19 years old, I founded Naive Clothing. As an independent clothing company we were able to be carried in retail stores in 7 states, take part of national music festivals, sponsor a series of bands, and sell in over 20 countries via our online web store.



District Lines

• Cofounder

  • Jan 2007 - Oct 2008

  Orlando, Florida Area An online e-commerace store founded in 2007 that specialized in catering to bands, record labels, boutique clothing brand, and YouTube artist. As the cofounder of the company I oversaw the development of the website, the e-commerence backend, and recruited the initial client roster.



Merchspin

• Co-owner

  • Dec 2006 - Oct 2008

  Orlando, Florida Area As a co-owner and director of sales for Merchspin I helped the company grow by over 200%. During that time our operation grew from one manual press by adding 3 automatic printing presses. Additionally we moved our operations from a 2500 sq warehouse into a state of the art 14,000 sq warehouse that combined the Merchspin and District Lines operations.



Discovery Church | Orlando, FL

• Director of Lighting and Set Design

  • 2003 - 2006

  In three years while on staff as a lighting tech, I was promoted to the roll of set design in my final year on staff. While over seeing the lighting department we purchased and installed multiple moving head fixtures and upgraded our equipment. I operated an whole hog 1000 light board. Our stage had over 100 fixed lights and multiple moving head fixtures for the weekly services. We held 4 weekend services, two sunday night services, and 2 week night services which I oversaw from a set… Show more In three years while on staff as a lighting tech, I was promoted to the roll of set design in my final year on staff. While over seeing the lighting department we purchased and installed multiple moving head fixtures and upgraded our equipment. I operated an whole hog 1000 light board. Our stage had over 100 fixed lights and multiple moving head fixtures for the weekly services. We held 4 weekend services, two sunday night services, and 2 week night services which I oversaw from a set design and lighting operations stand point. I also installed, designed, and programmed Discovery's largest off site production at Olympia High School where we had over 60 moving heads for the Christmas Eve service. This set and lighting plan was designed and installed within 48 hours and we had a production at the end of that week. Show less



RELEVANT Media Group

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing Intern

  • 2003 - 2003

  Responsible for new subscriber communication and providing support to the traveling festival staff.