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Career Highlights | Art Direction

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Discipline Creative Direction
Progression Content Creator → Art Director
Chapter 02: Featured Work

CAREER OVERVIEW | CREATIVE PROGRESSION

Where Story Became Strategy

What began as an instinct for filmmaking evolved into a career shaping products, brands, and visual identities. Across design, photography, film, digital experiences, and 3D visualization, each role expanded the same creative practice: finding the story, building its world, and giving it a form people can see.

Dec 2020 | Sep 2021

Maxshine

Marketing | Product Design

A hands-on role spanning brand design, product development, packaging, digital campaigns, web design, and experiential marketing.

Sep 2021 | Apr 2024

Grandma Lucy’s

Brand Content | Digital Design

A deeper study in making a brand feel human through graphic design, photography, film, e-commerce, and visual storytelling.

Nov 2024 | Present

SafeSmart

Content Creator | National Art Director

Creative direction, filmmaking, web strategy, campaigns, and 3D visualization brought together as one connected creative system.

NATIONAL ART DIRECTOR

SafeSmart Access

In 2024, I joined SafeSmart as Art Director to transform a fragmented creative presence into a connected system for education, sales, and growth. I rebuilt SafeSmart’s digital platforms, reshaped content and brand communications, and introduced cinematic 3D visualization that allows customers to see complex access systems before they are built. The result is a clearer brand, a stronger customer journey, and creative work directly supporting multimillion-dollar opportunities that has assisted in growing the company over 60% YoY in sales.

Digital Audience 300%+ Social Growth
Retail Transformation $200K Peak to Nearly $1M Annually
3D Sales Enablement Supporting Over $10M+ in Deals

Featured Projects

Bell Helicopters MV-75 access-system visualization
01 3D Visualization Sales Enablement

Bell MV-75 Project

A cinematic visualization system created to place a proposed access design inside its real-world environment before manufacturing began.

Contribution Art Direction | 3D Visualization | Animation | Proposal Design
Result Supported a $3M+ Project
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SafeSmart brand and creative system
02 Creative Direction Brand Systems

Brand Transformation

A complete creative overhaul that transformed disconnected materials into a clear, consistent, and recognizable American brand presence.

Contribution Brand Strategy | Creative Direction | Content | Collateral
Result 300%+ Social Growth
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SafeSmart website design and digital-platform transformation
03 Digital Strategy Web Design

Website Transformation

A redesigned digital ecosystem that made complex access solutions easier to understand, navigate, compare, and purchase.

Contribution UX Strategy | Information Architecture | Design | Development
Result Retail Growth to Nearly $1M Annually
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CREATIVE MARKETING MANAGER

Grandma Lucy’s

In 2021, I joined Grandma Lucy’s as Creative Marketing Manager, directing graphic design, photography, videography, and e-commerce across the brand. Over nearly three years, I built creative systems that strengthened brand consistency, expanded product education, and supported measurable growth across Amazon, direct-to-consumer channels, YouTube, and more than 700 retail locations nationwide.

E-Commerce Growth 10% Increase in Revenue
Audience Engagement 20% Year-Over-Year Growth
Retail Expansion Across 700+ Stores

Featured Projects

Lucy's Kitchen educational training video series
01 | Educational Content

Lucy’s Kitchen

An educational video series created to make product training clearer, more useful, and more engaging for retailers and customers.

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Grandma Lucy's Colorado geo-targeted advertising campaign
02 | Paid Social

Colorado Campaign

A geo-targeted advertising campaign designed around Colorado’s outdoor identity rather than the brand’s traditional coastal aesthetic.

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Grandma Lucy's retail expansion content
03 | Sales Enablement

Retail Expansion

A coordinated content package developed to strengthen retail presentations and support the brand’s largest distribution opportunity.

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CREATIVE MARKETING COORDINATOR

MAXSHINE DETAILING

In 2020, I began my marketing career at Maxshine Detailing as a Content Creator. Within two months, I was promoted to Marketing Coordinator, expanding my role across product development, packaging, advertising, web design, event coordination, and digital content. The experience taught me how every creative decision contributes to a larger, unified brand story.

Digital Growth 30% Increase in Revenue
Product Development Best-Selling Product
Experiential Marketing 200+ Event Attendees

Featured Projects

The Reaper automotive polisher by Maxshine
01 | Product Development | 2021

The Reaper

An industry-first seasonal polisher developed from initial concept through final production.

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Detailers After Dark automotive web series production
02 | Branded Content | 2021

Detailers After Dark

An original web series built to connect product education with automotive culture.

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Maxshine Cars and Coffee automotive event
03 | Experiential | 2021

Cars & Coffee

A first-of-its-kind Maxshine event shaped from promotion through on-site execution.

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