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8x8Social Media Manager
May. 2025
Current AgencyChief Executive Officer
May. 2025
NO MAKEUP MAKEUPSocial Media Manager
Feb. 2024 - Apr. 2025
RE/MAX Alliance - Virginia Beach, VADirector of Marketing Services
Dec. 2022 - Nov. 2023Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States• Spearheaded tailored, high-impact agent farming campaigns, resulting in substantial sales growth. • Oversaw the creation, management, and optimization of integrated OOH, print, social, and web marketing campaigns for both the company and individual agents. • Undertook visual design, copywriting, and web dev tasks, ensuring strict adherence to corporate branding guidelines, Equal Housing guidelines, and tone naturalization for connection with target audiences. • Cultivated an extensive repository of online reviews, elevating the company’s reputation.
Marika CreativeChief Operating Officer
Jun. 2021Orange County, California, United States• Envisioning and co-creating outstanding 4-6 figure major creative ad campaigns that yield 3-10x ROI on average. • Assisting Creative Director with competitor analysis and tracking cutting-edge ad trends and creative techniques. • Managing and enriching client relationships and team communication with fair leadership objectives in mind. • Utilizing the agency’s network to curate models, props, wardrobes, locations, and equipment within budget. • Directing production teams and adhering to tight deadlines for full quarterly media shoots.
CHEFMASTERGraphics & Packaging Manager
May. 2020 - Oct. 2022Fullerton, California, United States• Spearheaded creative projects that won product onboarding with a large global retailer. • Strategized social media campaigns and achieved organic growth from 67k followers to 73k within a year.. • Directed and managed teams of freelance content creators and influencers to create strategic UGC content. • Engineered designs for product packaging, company trade booth, and print and web marketing collateral. • Refreshed company’s identity on all channels including packaging, print, web UI/UX, and social.
FreelanceProduct Photographer & Stop Motion Artist
Apr. 2020 - Aug. 2021Santa Ana, California, United StatesI freelance as a visual content creator for primarily CPG food brands. I specialize in a bright, colorful, sunlit studio style that's great for social media and ad use.
FacialworksArt Director
Aug. 2018 - Apr. 2020Newport Beach, CA• Rebrand company’s identity and all collateral including packaging, print, web, search, social media, and internal assets • Work alongside Marketing Director to shape marketing and social calendars and monthly campaigns • Plan, copywrite, and manage daily Instagram post and story content at least 4 weeks in advance using Planoly • Manage active social media community (14.3k followers) and interact with customers as the brand on Instagram • Design and produce print, web, email, and video campaigns to drive traffic to retail spas and online store • Oversee branding integration, mural design, and merchandising design in launching new retail locations • Redesign and set up the e-commerce website on Webflow • Photograph products and models receiving services for e-commerce, lifestyle, ads and press kits • Art direct and source necessary freelancers for quarterly marketing shoots and specialized illustration artwork • Create logos and microidentities for seasonal campaigns • Organize the company cloud asset management system
File BrandContent Producer
Feb. 2018 - Jun. 2018Greater Los Angeles Area• Photographed and retouched social media product photos for high-caliber retail companies including Devotion Nutrition, Realgood Pizza, Oats Overnight, and Bloom Brand (Instagram followings ranging 18k-170k followers) • Spearheaded visuals for Devotion Nutrition's rebrand launch, which doubled organic Instagram engagement from 1.2% to 3.33% in just 1 week. • Designed an Instagram 30-day feed to be visually cohesive to drive engagement with consistent and relatable aesthetics. • Organized production schedules and prop budgets in order to efficiently meet deadlines.
Fovitec (USA) International, Inc. (dba fovitec.com)Creative Photographer Assistant
Apr. 2017 - Dec. 2017Irvine, CA• Retouched product photos for e-commerce shopping listings on Amazon and Shopify. • Designed e-mail newsletters via MailChimp and infographics to promote sales and new products to customers. • Designed, pre-pressed, and coordinated production for product packaging, company business cards, and customer service cards for perfect color and resolution printing. • Maintained the photo studio and equipment and inventoried props to preserve a clean shooting space.
Canon USATraining Assistant
Mar. 2017 - Aug. 2017Costa Mesa, CA• Assisted with training workshops held at the Canon Experience Center as a hospitable aid and host to guests. • Conducted guest check-in, photographed events, and assisted guests with questions about Canon gear to be an ambassador for the Canon brand.
Biola UniversityStaff Photographer for Biola Athletics
Aug. 2016 - Dec. 2016La Mirada, CA• Photographed and edited photos on the same day for weekly sports games on campus, including soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball, and tennis to post in a timely manner on social media after the game. • Photographed and retouched headshots and game-day awareness photos for social media and website use.
The Salvation ArmySocial Media Intern
Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2016Long Beach, CA• Photographed and managed visual content for the Caring Magazine Instagram to create a positive, cohesive feed for 3 months. • Ran social media analytics meetings every month to refine the marketing strategy. • Coordinated posts and researched captions for optimal engagement.
Biola UniversityGallery Graphic Design Intern
Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2016• Designed postcards and created branding for art exhibitions to advertise the art shows visiting the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery at Biola University. • Photographed individual artworks with studio lighting to display in the annual catalog. • Laid out a print catalog book to summarize the gallery artists and shows of the year.
UC IrvineProduction Designer
Jun. 2015 - Feb. 2016Irvine, CA• Used Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and After Effects to animate out sketches of economic diagrams for UCI Professor Peter Navarro's macro and micro economics online classes.
Biola UniversityDesign Editor of The Chimes newspaper
Sep. 2013 - May. 2015La Mirada, CA• Utilized InDesign to format articles and produce the weekly campus print newspaper. • Collaborated with a staff of 20 editors, writers and photographers to manage written and visual content according to deadlines. • Delivered digital layouts ahead of deadline in order to get a head start on the next week’s designs frequently.
Saddleback ChurchGraphic Design Intern
Jun. 2011 - Aug. 2013Lake Forest, CA• Production designed pamphlets, bulletins and signs to inform a weekly congregation of 17,000+ people of church news. • Pre-pressed artwork for accurate mass printing and color reproduction.
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