Resume
Certificates
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CIG - Certified Interpretive Guide
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LNT - Leave No Trace Certifier
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WRF - Wilderness First Responder
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CPR/WAT - Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training
Work Experience
November 2022–Current
October 2021–March 2022
Wildlife Viewing Design Specialist | Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Developed content for engagement with online visitors from infographics, wildlife illustrations, educational materials, and nature journaling examples while promoting wildlife viewing ethics. resources. Promoted the ColoradoBirdingTrail website to build up users by exploring sites and sharing bird species findings along with creating content related content for viewers.
March 2022–October 2022
April 2021–October 2021
Park Ranger | Boulder County Parks and Open Space
Patrolled all the parks throughout boulder county from the less-visited on slow days to the busiest of parks on the weekend assisted with managing parking, roadblocks, and as an on-trail resource. Hiked and biked the trails while engaging with visitors about plants, wildlife, roving interpretation, and created and executed pop-up interpretation programs, while assessing parks and open space rules and regulations. Self-managed patrols and assistant other Ranger on calls when necessary, assisted visitors with first aid resources, and developed a welcoming community for all users in parks.
Fall 2020
Teachers Assistant | Red Rock Community College
Taught lesson and engaged with students for Orienteeing and Routefinding class, basics of compass reading, traversing the backcountry and topography map reading and navigating.
June 2020–November 2020
Maintenace Technitian | CPW - St. Vrain State Park
General maintenance of the park, park services, and a friendly face/park ambassador. Working with heavy equipment, various power tools, maintaining the grounds with riding mowers or tractor/implement, utilizing inground irrigation system or tanker trailer to maintain grasses and trees watered. Minor trail maintenance mitigating falling tree (clearing and disposal) maintenance campground and camp service building. Utilizing critical thinking while on rounds and while using the equipment. Use various vehicles throughout the day including F-250, Chevrolet C5500, ATV, Mule, Riding Mowers, Tractor (small john deer 930, big john deer 4066R)
May 2015–April 2020
Designer + Art Director | Cohn Marketing
Developed branding, identity marks, collateral, both off-screen and digital, along with full advertising campaigns from concepting to production roll-out, for diverse industry clients.
Skills: Design confidence and maturity, efficiency, total team collaboration, love for mentorship, brand identity and brand development, behavioral change campaigns.
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Client List: City of Black Hawk, CDOT, Serramonte Mall, Wood Development, Lurch Bates, Urban Villages, Functional Remedies, The Clinic, Seed and Smith Dispensary, Condit, Five Point Development, One Daytona Development, Downtown Superior, Galleria Dallas and Visit Aurora.
July 2014–April 2015
Sr. Art Director | XL Edge
Developed communication collateral, and branding with focus on diverse audience for larger retail brands.
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Skills: Resourcefulness, rapid design execution, delegation, working lean and fast. FIrst real role as a design leader, (not successfully, but learned a lot about empathy and teamwork).
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Client List: Kroger, Food4Less, Kings Soopers, Ralph’s, Jägermeister, Comfort Baby, Laura’s Lean Foods.
April 2011–July 2014
Art Director | Heinrich Hispanidad
Developed behavioral change campaigns and branding focused on diverse audience and general market clients.
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Skills: Leadership, First real agency job, split my time between creating campaigns, mostly for behavioral change clients in the Hispanic/Native American sector with a copywriter and account supervisor. In the general market lots of branding and b2b campaigns.
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Client List: CDOT, Wells Fargo, Kroger, Hilton, IMA Financial, Merrick Bank, Macy’s, Bloomingdales, PostNet, Humana, WYDOT, Slammer Baseball Clinic.
January 2011–April 2011
Design Intern | Sukle
Skills: Full immersion into a creative environment, creative concepting, working with a copywriter, team ideation, conceptual approach, non-traditional tactics and executions.
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Client List: Denver Water, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Good Times Burger
May 2010–August 2010
Intern + Freelance | Ripcord
Current
Red Rocks Community College
Certificate in Park Ranger Technologies Natural Resourece Interpretation
Education
December 2010
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (RMCAD) | Denver, CO
Bachelors in Communications Design
May 2006
Amarillo College | Amarillo, TX
Associates of Applied Science in Graphic Design
Passions
Design for Good Sewing Pies Plein air painting
Disc Golf CafeRacer Bikes Everything Nature
Mountain Biking Random Knowledge/Documentaries
True Crime B-Movie Horror Music from the 2000s
Birding Everything Design