Resume

SPROUTED WHEAT
(Production Manager)

Wow! Sprouted Wheat has me using some dormant skills and some familiar skills to make things happen! I was asked to manage dry food production for the company, mainly to streamline processes and determine better methods for mass production. This includes changing manufacturing processes and acquiring (or custom building) equipment for the tasks. This position has required extensive research and working with scientists, consultants, current and former employees and even learning basic chemistry to understand how to improve the products. Because of my background, part of my job includes assisting the marketing department with advertising, packaging, and branding for the products.

SKILLS USED:
• Product Assessment
• Production Coordination
• External Team Collaboration (Chemists, engineers, developers, et al))
• Internal Team Management
• Research Techniques

FUN LEARNING

This is here to balance the education and the job sections.  It’s also good to know that I enjoy taking courses from places like LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, Skillshare and more.

I take online learning courses like these because it’s fun to learn more about subjects I know well and study things I’m not familiar with yet. (If you’ve got some free time, you should try out a course or two and see for yourself how enjoyable it can be!).

SKILLS REFINED:
• Technological Aptitude
• Learning
• Researching
• Teaching (see how others do it and mimic the good stuff)

STUKENT
(Product Marketing Manager)

While at Stukent, I was responsible to manage several SaaS products used by universities. This management included answering current client questions, generating leads for potential future clients, and working to develop future products. At Stukent, I also worked on internal and external events with other management teams in charge of similar software products. Using tried-and-true marketing principles and several guerilla techniques, I was able to consistently meet and exceed team goals by as much as 300%!

SKILLS USED:
• Remote Working
• Verbal Communication – Working with colleagues and clients was essential to successful management
• Written Communication – Emails and chats were used on a daily basis with university personnel
• Microsoft Office (primarily Excel, including daily use/tweaking of macros)
• CRM Software (Hubspot) was used to track and move clients and projects through each stage of the sales process

WGU (MBA)

While working full-time, I’ve been taking online courses from Western Governor’s University, hoping to finish my MBA sometime in the future.

With the changing trends in businesses, having a solid understanding of business principles has become a necessity to navigate these trends and come out on top.

SKILLS REFINED:
• Business Management
• Business Principles
• Project Management
• Time & Asset Management

CHAPTER THREE GAMES
(Creative Director)

Chapter Three was a change in so many ways from my previous career roles. I worked as the coordinator between the creatives, the admins and our customers. In a nutshell, I took the projects from a client’s idea through a creative team of artists and designers until we ended up with a finished product. This involved teams of up to 30 people on projects ranging from simple card games to complex tabletop games and related marketing pieces.

SKILLS USED:
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Writing – Short & Long Copy
• Design & Layout
• Manufacturing
• Product Branding
• Project Management
• Thinking outside-the-box (pun intended)

BYU (English & Manufacturing)

As a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, I studied both English and Manufacturing. On the English side, I was taught by renowned authors such as Rick Walton and Brandon Sanderson and on the Manufacturing side I studied with industry giants like Brent Strong.

While English and Manufacturing don’t typically go hand-in-hand, it paved the way for me to liaise between creative and manufacturing teams easily.

SKILLS REFINED:
• Writing, Short & Long Copy
• Training
• Project Coordination
• Time & Asset Management

RED C GALLERY (Gallery Director)

As the Gallery Director, I was responsible for organizing and managing all internal events (employee training, sales and marketing) and external events (community shows, classes and workshops). I was in charge of taking the ideas of employees, customers and industry experts and making them successful and profitable shows and promotions.

SKILLS USED:
• Project Management
• Guerilla Marketing
• Human Resources
• Time & Asset Management
• Creative Thinking
• Communication

UVU (Communications)

At Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, I started my college career studying Communications (Writing), but in the process was introduced to speech and verbal communication. While I kept writing as my primary focus, I learned principles of communication that I’ve used in every endeavor since then. As a fun side note, I managed to take 1st place in the Speech Invitation during my final year at UVU.

SKILLS REFINED:
• Communication, Spoken & Written
• Training
• Creative Thinking
• Time & Asset Management
• When to dig your heels in and when to just shut up and sit down

REPARTEE GALLERY & FRAMEWORK (Gallery Manager)

Being raised in an artist’s home, I was surrounded by art and creativity from the time I was old enough to speak. When the opportunity came to work on the business side of creativity, I jumped at the chance. Working with Repartee on the business side of art gave me a perspective from both sides of the design coin – the creative side and the bottom line.

At Repartee, we practiced the tried and true business and marketing model while continually jumping outside the box with new business ideas and guerrilla marketing campaigns that stretched our customer base beyond the norm…and we had a blast doing it!

Some of the greatest lessons learned at Repartee, however, weren’t from the successful promotions and home run ideas, but from those ideas that were less-than-stellar and took more work and creative thinking to pull off.

SKILLS USED:
• Teaching & Training
• Creative Thinking
• Project Management
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Product Branding
• Communication
• Sales & Customer Service
• Thinking outside-the-box