Started as a production artist. Learned everything the hard way. Worked my way up through senior designer and art director to production manager — all at the same agency, which either means I was really good or really comfortable. Clients included Holiday Inn Hotels, Coca-Cola, Murray Biscuit Company, InterContinental Hotels Group, and DuPont. Big brands, tight deadlines, zero shortcuts.

Traded the agency for a home office. Logo design, catalogs, websites, trade show materials, email campaigns — if it needed designing, I designed it. Built long-term relationships with Torrco, Milestone Science, MBC Interactive, and a donut company in Kansas City that I still think about.

Joined a small manufacturing company and promptly got involved in everything. Packaging across six brands. Trade show materials. Influencer strategy, web tools built with AI that became the most visited pages on the site. A drag-and-drop lab layout builder. E-commerce across four platforms. A 100th anniversary kit. Also somehow became the marketing department — planning campaigns, growing organic audiences across email, social, and digital without spending a dime on paid media. It's a lot. I like it that way.