Resume

Software Skills

After Effects

Premiere Pro

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Audition

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DaVinci Resolve

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Photoshop

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Illustrator

work experience

 
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American Fidelity Inc.

Multimedia Design Specialist | January 2019 - Present

My role is primarily responsible for creating realistic and stylized multimedia content to support any and all marketing efforts across the entire organization.

These duties include end-to-end live and animated video production, and producing hundreds of custom video requests from our remote sales staff located across the United States.

  • Completed many full-pipeline film productions, both on-set and on-location across the country using RED cameras and other advanced video equipment.

  • Achieved the goal of increasing our yearly video views across the entire organization by 30%.

  • Re-imagined and modernized our corporate animation style to include character animations using After Effects and DUIK Bassel.

  • Integrated and advocated for introducing a Lottie workflow for animations, including assisting the development team in implementing them to our website.

  • Managed tight deadlines and unexpected projects with fast turnarounds, while communicating production progress across all internal and external stakeholders.

 
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Bigwing Interactive

Content Marketing & Video Strategist II | March 2016 - December 2018

My role was to manage and develop strategy for video production, content marketing, and social media campaigns for clients as both a lead and support specialist.

These duties included full-pipeline video production, organic social media and advertising campaigns, as well as creating content marketing strategy, blog writing, and email marketing.

  • Launched and managed BigWing's digital marketing video service line, and strategized with clients.

  • Managed the entire video production process: script copywriting, pre-production, on-location shoots and post-production including motion graphic creation.

  • Generated $50,000+ revenue in new video business in 2018.

  • Collaborated with content marketing, social media management, search engine optimization and programmatic advertising teams to cohesively integrate video marketing into the client's overall campaign.

 
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Pluralsight (formerly Digital-tutors)

Product Marketing Manager & Copywriter | July 2014 - January 2016

Created new product marketing strategies for Sales Enablement and B2B, clarifying customer communication through writing and editing articles, landing pages, video scripts and storyboards.

  • Grew Pluralsight's Creative YouTube channel engagement by over 30%

  • Targeted individual users through diverse social marketing campaigns via Facebook, driving users to follow our page and sign up for our services.

  • Wrote content marketing articles for the B2B market, informing users about the benefits of our services.

  • Managed the production of Pluralsight's Creative newsletter with more than 200,000 subscribers.

 
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Digital-Tutors

Production Manager and Jr. Motion Graphics Designer | July 2009 - July 2014

Throughout my time in this role I played a major part in improving our video output from 12 courses released per month to over 35 courses released per month, an increase of over 200%.

  • Managed the entire production pipeline for the website, with over two years of flawless daily releases.

  • Edited and fixed video issues for a team of over nine authors, reducing their production time by 20%.

  • Kept over 10 terabytes of video and course data organized and easily accessible.

  • Ensured error-free copy on all video introductions, titles, descriptions and course information.

  • Worked with content acquisitions to help our contract video authors deliver the best video content quality possible from all across the globe.

  • Edited hundreds of hours of video content in After Effects and Premiere Pro, from splitting and combining video files to resolving errors.

 

Education

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University of Central Oklahoma

B.A. Strategic Communications | Fall 2009 - Fall 2014

The Strategic Communication degree teaches to research, develop and communicate effective written/electronic/graphic messages for target audiences. I learned a blend of advertising and public relations to prepare for leadership opportunities in the fields of communications relating to: advertising agencies, PR firms, corporate communications and non-profit organizations.

 

MOSTLY IRRELEVANT BUT SOMEWHAT INTERESTING QUALIFICATIONS

  • Won an Oreo stacking contest at my local Kmart in 1997

  • Awarded “Most Dependable” by my H.S. football coach 2 years in a row

  • Self-taught unicyclist

  • Watched Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in theaters four times during it’s initial theatrical release