A local marketing junkie, I employ my craft aiding clients in integrating various marketing techniques into their media mix.

Drawing from an undergraduate degree in design from Illinois State, I honed my skills as an art director for CS&A Marketing and Communications (a national business to business marketing agency) creating everything from corporate identity and brochures, direct mail and websites to commercials and multimedia projects. Currently focusing on a master's in communications, I am researching into what it takes to influence the decisions of the millennial generation.

"My clients know the subject matter the best. They are the experts. My job is just to disect their message and figure out the best and most effective way to communicate it. That's where the creativity comes in."

Today, I am not only creating award-winning designs for Illinois State, I also focus on helping clients integrate new technologies into their media mix. "Whether that's texting, social networks, e-mail, websites, or traditional snail mail, each audience has their own prefered method of communication and we have to be prepared for all of them."