Skills

Front-end Design: UI development, HTML/CSS architecture, UX, Accessibility, Prototyping (in the browser, or with tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch).

Knowledgable in modern JavaScript (ES6+), PHP. Frameworks such as React, Vue & some Angular.

Professional Experience

  • Karman Healthcare

    Web Designer / Online Marketer

    City Of Industry, California

    In charge of redesigning the company's website. Distilled and migrated 100+ product page data from their static Microsoft FrontPage based website. Developed new corporate site with WordPress. Used custom fields to create an easier, but customizable process for updating product content and data.

    Took product photography & videos, created ads, and handled general IT related tasks. Worked with their sales manager to crawl, scrape and scrub potential customer leads nationwide. From which fax, snail mail, and email campaigns (aweber) were created, sent, and tracked on a near weekly basis.

  • Cloud Magazine

    Designer / Front-End Developer

    Riverside, California

    Southern California based counter-culture magazine (10k /mo circulation). Started designing layouts and graphics for their editorials and advertisements on behalf of their advertisers.

    Later, managed a network of WordPress blogs & PHP powered "web 2.0" properties. Worked with founder exploring and understanding StumbleUpon and it's algorithms to spark viral traffic to our network of websites. Iteratively designed and tested viral content based themes (think icanhascheezburger) which was used to earn some of our clients over a million page views ytd.

  • Nouveau Studios

    Co-Founder / Creative Director

    Downtown LA, California

    One of three co-founders. Worked together in growing the company to include 8 employees, complete 50+ projects and earn the top 3 ranking on Yelp for Web Design in Los Angeles for nearly 3 years.

    Early roles included research, strategy, planning, design & front-end development. Later focused primiarly on creative direction, design and facilitating communication between clients and our marketing & dev teams.

  • Shout Q

    Chief Creative Officer / Co-Founder

    Los Angeles, California

    An eBay-like marketplace for brands and influencers to buy and sell shout outs. Created early prototypes and investor deck before successfully raising funding for our iOS application.

    Lead creative & strategy. Created brand identity, app icon, ui and interaction designs. Created the marketing site for the app. Utilized previous relationships with musicians to help seed our initial base of influencers.

  • Vape Holdings Inc.

    Front-End Developer / Designer

    Woodland Hills, California

    After having sold our company, to Vape Holdings Inc. our team was integrating into the day to day operations at the company. In addition to existing roles at nouveau new roles included branding, packaging and front-end development for the companies consumer products and services.

  • New Hair Institute

    Front-end Developer / Content Editor

    Los Angeles, California

    Redesigned and developed the company's WordPress website. Focus was given to content architecture, UX and user research to help create a cohesive flow to increase conversions.

    Helped aggregate various print, photo and video content for the company to post onto their website and social channels (primarily Facebook, YouTube, Reddit).

  • The Studio Brand

    Partner / Chief Marketing Officer

    Monrovia, California

    Designed the company's corporate identity, packaging and custom Shopify based website. Became an equity partner. Primarly focused on marketing and growth. Drove sales through Instagram by developing quality photos of our products, creating relationships with influencers, shout out accounts and potential customers through likes, comments and DMs. Grew account to over 6.7K+ followers organically.

    Worked closely with the CEO in strategizing growth and potentially expanding into new markets. Helped the company pivot into a successful merger with Division XII a company in similiarly burgeoning industry.

  • Division XII

    Partner / Chief Marketing Officer

    Los Angeles, California

    Stategized and designed the company's visual identity and message on the web. Lead marketing, branding and packaging for over 50+ SKUs in the companies catalog spread amongst 4 sub-brands.

    Managed several Instagram accounts, got products into the hands of influencers and photographers to help fuel the content we post onto our feeds.

Internships

  • — College Web Media
    • Walnut, California — Dedicated to serving the needs and interests of college students and the college-minded by providing a range of services and products.
    • Worked on design and front-end for their video platform ("Custom" PHP Video CMS + JWPlayer).
  • — Dim Mak Records
    • Hollywood, California — Lead street team in weekly guerilla marketing campaigns for Dim Mak's weekly event Dim Mak Tuesday's.

Education

  • — John A. Rowland High School
    • Honors, Advanced Placement, Student Council (Officer of Technology)
    • TV/Video Broadcasting Certificate — La Puente Valley Regional Occupational Program
  • — Pasadena City College
    • Curricular Focus: Photography / Film, 2D Design, Screen Printing