Work
Same pattern,
every time.
Hired for one thing. Ended up doing three others. Left it better than I found it. Here's the record.
Web & Marketing
The day jobs.
Current
SC Broadband
Marketing Representative, Cedar City, UT
My business card says "Marketing Representative." Strategy, web development, SEO, and brand architecture for a fiber cooperative serving 30,500 members across two states all sit on me. Built the dual-brand strategy from scratch. Launched SEO and content from zero. Won four Best of Iron County golds.
SEO Design Chicago
SEO Specialist
SEO Specialist at SEO Design Chicago, a Chicago digital marketing firm. Agency-side SEO across client accounts: technical audits, on-page work, content strategy across a portfolio of sites.
Truvy
Senior Director of Marketing, Draper, UT
Health and wellness company in turnaround mode. $2.5M budget. Fifteen people across marketing, art, design, events, and PR. Moved NPS from 35 to 60. Increased brand recognition 33%. Six months. Long enough to prove the model. Short enough to know the company wasn't where I needed to be.
MCC Apparel / H.M. Cole
Creative Director
Dan McConkie hired me for photography and graphic design. Within months I was pulling data, building reports, running analytics, and influencing sales tactics. $90K budget. 120% sales increase. His reference letter says it better than I can: "We kept handing him hats and he kept wearing them."
AllenComm
Technical Writer / Lead Copywriter
Started as a technical writer. Ended up designing the SPTS online training program. 50,000 teachers completed it across the country. Won four awards. My supervisor's reference letter said I showed "some of the highest levels of creativity and productivity in my 20-year career." The car gets the awards. I got the check and the story.
Vitality Medical
Copywriter
Copywriter at Vitality Medical, a Salt Lake medical equipment e-commerce supplier. Product copy in a regulated category, where the words have to track product specifications instead of pushing on therapeutic benefits.
Writing & Photography
Before it was a business.
Iron County Today
Staff Writer & Photographer
First real job that mattered. Covered news, politics, lifestyle, obituaries. Built the digital presence from nothing. Grew the online following 200% in six months. Won Utah Press Association Awards, though the awards went to the paper, not to me. I've always been the gas and the engine. The car gets the awards.
Standing Rock
Photojournalism, 2016 to 2017
Filed dispatches from the camps in sub-zero wind, press badge from a FedEx in Bismarck. Some of the most important work I've done. Not for the portfolio, but for the reminder that showing up matters more than having a plan.
Mt. Rainier
Expedition Photographer, SummitClimb
Published expedition photography with full credit. Field notes written at 12,000 feet in a tent that smelled like wet Gore-Tex and instant coffee. The best stories happen when you're too tired to make them up.
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