5+ years experience in visual design communications, marketing services, and social media content management. 2+ years experience in freelance design and social media consultation.

Languages: Portuguese (Fluent), English (Native).


Education

Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Arts in Communications: Visual Design Emphasis
3.90 GPA
; Program: GPA 4.00

Provo, UT Apr 2021

  • Edwin O. Haroldsen Magazine Journalism Award, 2021
  • Scripps League  and N. LaVeral Christensen Scholarship for Print and Digital Journalism Recipient 2020
  • Academic Merit Scholarship Recipient 3+ years
  • College of Fine Arts and Communications Dean’s List of Honor Students, 2019
  • English Symposium, 3rd Place Editorial Award Winner for “Hope for Healing: Solutions to the Myths Surrounding Suicide,” 2019

Skills & Certifications

  • Adobe Creative Cloud Experience: Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere Pro, Lightroom.
  • Social Media Management and Data Analysis Training: Completed 2019.
  • WordPress 5 Essential Training through LinkedIn Learning: Completed Jan 15, 2021
  • Google Ads Search Certification: Completed Dec 15, 2020
  • Google Ads Display Certification: Completed Dec 16, 2020
  • Scheduling apps and analytics experience including: Bazaarvoice and Social Commerce, Later, Meta, Todoist, Basecamp, Preview.

Work Experience

DIGITAL DESIGNER AND SOCIAL CONTENT ART DIRECTOR
Thirty-One Gifts

Columbus, OH | July 2021-Present

  • Concepting and execution designer for multimedia marketing campaigns across multiple platforms including internal and external branding design for social, web, and email.
  • Creative direction and execution of events and company program branding.
  • Consumer-facing social media design including campaign branding and motion graphics animating in stories, posts, videos, and reels.
  • On-set art direction and styling for social media content (reels, posts, stories, etc.) and general marketing photoshoots of product collections.
  • Content from the last 6 months surpass historical social milestones across all metrics through content transformation, trend strategy and analysis.
  • Consistent growth across Facebook (900K > 950K), Instagram (100K > 112K), Pinterest ( 2.0 > 2.4M monthly views, 92.7K followers), and YouTube (40.4K subscribers)
  • Video views from <10K to 250K+ | Record shares, engagement, and reach.
  • Increased reach by 35.3%(FB) and 20.4%(IG) in 5 months.
  • Social is now the leading traffic driver across digital and direct efforts.

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
David M. Kennedy Center For International Studies

Provo, UT  |  Feb 2020 – May 2021

  • Engaged with international community sharing educational and informative content to increase global and cultural awareness.
  • Curated UGC based content highlighting educational and cultural experiences abroad.
  • Designed interactive social media campaigns for 5 social platforms.
  • Generated adapted international studies content for remote learning in order to increase engagement in spite of travel restrictions. 
  • Increased social media reach to 40,000+ in 3 months. 
  • Launched new social media platform and developed engaged following of 1000+ within 2 months.

DESIGNER
Journalism Research and Innovation Project

Provo, UT  |  Jan 2021 – May 2021

  • Collaborated with team of researchers, editors, reporters, and documentarians to create educational and informative multimedia content.
  • Designed, illustrated, and typeset 10 interactive articles for print, digital, and web distribution in under 3 months
  • Created data visualizations and infographics to clarify and expand research data. 

DESIGNER AND DIGITAL ILLUSTRATOR
BYU School of Communications

Provo, UT | May 2020 – Dec 2020

  • Collaborated with team of researchers, copywriters, editors, lawyers, and educators to outline the complexities of media law and establish new teaching methods during global pandemic.
  • Coordinated coursework transition to digital platforms for remote learning environments.
  • Designed infographics and digital illustrations to facilitate remote learning experience.
  • Typeset interactive course booklets and materials in digital and print media formats.     
  • Produced digital illustrations and layout designs for 2 teaching platforms including 12 interactive .pdfs, 14 digital presentations, and a variety of printed, educational materials to facilitate online and remote learning

FREELANCE EVENT BRANDING AND DIGITAL DESIGN SPECIALIST
BYU Counseling And Psychological Services

Provo, UT  |  Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

  • Designed campaign art for digital and social media platforms to market available resources to students
  • Collaborated with psychology professionals to represent diversity awareness within design and marketing.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS DESIGNER
RainSweet, Inc.

Salem, OR  |  Sept 2017 – Aug 2019

  • Facilitated rebrand to create a consistent visual display across all company platforms including print
  • Coordinated corporate experiences for visitors, clients, and employees to build brand loyalty 
  • Produced 75+ visual and written communications of new procedures and company policies on operations, safety, and maintenance to increase employee safety while utilizing vector illustrations and infographics to inform and educate employees with language constraints.

RESIDENT ASSISTANT
Heritage Halls

Provo, UT | Aug 2018 – July 2019

  • Facilitated social, academic, and personal adjustment for 75+ students to university life through open communication, unique and inviting campaigns, and outreach programs.
  • Managed event and activity coordination to create engaging experiences for residents including event experience strategy; event identity branding; publicity and marketing materials concepting and execution; and decor and entertainment budgeting and organizing.

EVENT COORDINATION ASSISTANT DESIGNER
Danner and Soli

Salem, OR  |  Jun 2015 – Aug 2015

  • Coordinated services for events, such as decor, displays, catering, and transportation for crew.
  • Monitor activities to ensure client satisfaction and resolution of any problems that arise. 

MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT COORDINATOR
Johnson Family Orthodontics

Salem, OR  |  Mar 2013 – Aug 2015

  • Established and maintained cooperative relationships with representatives of community, consumer, employee, or public interest groups, through social media presence and marketing campaigns. 
  • Maintained and updated WordPress website regularly.
  • Trained and directed workers engaged in developing and producing marketing material. 


Volunteer Work | Interests | Additional Achievements

  • Started @springandhoney, a design, illustration, and hand-lettering instagram account in 2020.
  • Volunteer Press for the Utah Cold Case Coalition “Day in the Desert” Search for Susan Powell, 2019
  • Completed an LDS Church service mission in Brazil Porto Alegre South, Mar 2016 – Aug 2017
  • Received Miss Olympian title in the 2015 Mr. and Miss Oly Pageant at Sprague High School in Salem, Oregon after individually raising $12,000 for Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in 9 months. The Oly Pageant is a year long fundraiser in benefit of Doernbecher Children’s Hospital. The pageant started in 1997 in loving memory of a former Sprague student, Jessica Stanford, who was treated at Doernbecher while she fought cancer.