Companies
In the past 6 years, I’ve held leadership positions at two startups:
Sextons Creek Productions
- Driving Productions division growth from 3 employees to 18 employees in 3 years
- Onboarded and trained new creative team and account manager employees
- Oversaw strategic consulting and goals & objective planning with new clients
- Launched new design briefs and campaigns as creative team lead
- Executed on partial CMO role for outsourced retainer clients
- Managed creative teams and account managers integration during company merger
- Facilitated client board meetings
- Managed contractor and vendor relationships
- Lead rebrand, brand hierarchy, business development, and brand solutions for all clients, B2C, B2B, and Non-Profits
- Oversaw strategic communication plans for new releases
- Oversaw strategic development and executive assignments for marketing campaigns
- Collaborated with Government Relations and Business Services department heads
Sextons Creek Productions started as a AV production and design firm. It grew to become one of three divisions of the Sextons Creek company (Productions, Government Relations, and Business Services). The Productions division merged with a medium sized marketing and advertising company in 2018.
Reformer House
Reformer House is a company I started as a co-working and creative agency hybrid with the vision of providing resources for creatives to achieve work-style reforms.
- Directed annual marketing goals and objectives for clients
- Initiated monthly account reviews with retainer clients
- Oversaw all creative work for video production, web development, graphic design, and brand identities, participating in execution where necessary.
- Managed co-working facility for member contractors
- Provided resources for generative creative community to achieve work-style reforms.
- Catered white label services to other creative and marketing agencies according to their taste
- Provided Brand Solutions and outsourced CMO consulting through this company.
- Provided meaningful employment, valuable creative opportunities for contractors, culture care events, gallery collaborations, and scholarships and career growth opportunities to up-and-coming artists.
Enneagram Type 5
StrengthsFinder Top 5: Relator, Intellection, Learner, Belief, Self-Assurance.
VIA Top 5: Creativity, Judgment, Curiosity, Perspective, Love of Learning
MBTI: INTP
ABOUT
I’m husband to my lovely wife, Joie, and proud father to our 6 kiddos living here in the midwest. I grew up with free reign of my family’s home video camera, shooting funny movies and animating shorts and stop motion videos with my sisters and friends. I got a few photography certifications right out of high school and then I briefly attended IWU and studied design and alternative process photography there… which I absolutely loved (it being one of the only schools left with fully functioning dark rooms at the time). I worked part-time as an interiors and architectural photographer, traveling regularly and the rest of my professional energy building portrait and video freelancing with a local creative community.
I took a position with a faith-based non-profit as their creative director for 3 years. Then, with the help of a mentor and my dad, simultaneously launched Reformer House (a co-working creative agency) and started work as VP of Productions at Sextons Creek Productions. We grew the productions division over the period of 4 years and then I moved over to Reformer House full-time in 2020. In 2024, I joined the team at Marion Design Co.
I am obsessed with storytelling, still infatuated with film and alternative process photography, and I'm a typography-nerd. Please reach out if you have any questions or could use any more specific examples of work, and thanks for your consideration.