Nashville, Tennessee, United States
I build clarity, systems, trust, and momentum across 30+ years of communication design, music, consulting, nonprofit leadership, marketing, operations, and AI-enabled workflow. I believe life is UX. Business meetings, songwriting, conversations, and executive reports all create an experience. Understanding needs, identifying friction, and communicating effectively are what help move things forward. While my path has not been a straight line, it has always had a clear thread. Music, design, development, and operations all depend on building trust, working with integrity, thinking critically, and solving problems in complex environments. A degree in Communication Design, with a focus on graphic design and advertising, gave me the foundation: design principles, clear visual communication, and concept-driven strategy. An unexpected dive into the music business kept building on that foundation. Songwriting, touring, and producing taught discipline, collaboration, adaptability, audience connection, and a keen business sense. That clear thread has been woven through very different work: strengthening a nonprofit through operating systems, partnerships, marketing, and public communication; organizing complex, high-volume project communications into stakeholder-ready reports; building a self-directed music career across songwriting, touring, production, and artist development; creating foundational systems for a music-publishing startup; designing visual communication across corporate, music, nonprofit, entertainment, and small-business environments; and interviewing employees and contractors to identify pain points, communication gaps, operational friction, and opportunities for efficiency. I’m drawn to work without a ceiling: roles, consulting projects, collaborations, and music opportunities that make room for creative contribution, meaningful incentives, and the ability to help people, teams, and organizations grow.
Built a 25+ year self-directed music industry career spanning songwriting, touring, production, artist development, music direction, performance coaching, publishing, artist consulting, and independent business operations. Secured a major-label recording contract with Lava/Atlantic Records and a publishing deal with Old Bank Music after years of independent artist growth, networking, showcases, recording, promotion, and live performance. Performed nationally and internationally as a guitarist, vocalist, and music director for major-label and national touring artists across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, including Jessie James Decker, Secondhand Serenade, Teddy Geiger, Karissa Ella, Jackson Harris, and others. Appeared on MTV’s You Hear It First, Today, Ellen, CBS, The CW, VH1, CMT, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Nickelodeon, and HBO. Wrote, produced, engineered, and collaborated on songs released globally, with placements across television, film, sports, youth media, advertising, and retail platforms, including CMT, Discovery Channel, A&E, ABC, NBC Sports, Nickelodeon, MTV, PGA Tour Entertainment, MuchMusic, American Idol, and NBC Universal. Consulted artists on songwriting, performance, brand development, production, royalties, licensing, publishing, interviews, and career advancement while managing budgeting, taxes, insurance, contracts, scheduling, and clients.
Created in-house and freelance work across corporate, music, hospitality, nonprofit, publishing, entertainment, and small-business environments, using user-experience-focused thinking to shape messaging, visual communication, and audience engagement. Combined design execution with client consultation, concept-driven strategy, project organization, vendor coordination, deadline management, and practical problem-solving across long-term freelance and contract relationships. Applied typography, layout, photography, visual hierarchy, color theory, desktop publishing, prepress, photo editing, print production, and advertising fundamentals to create clear, emotionally resonant design.
Performed, toured, and supported Jessie James Decker across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia as a guitarist, vocalist, and music director. Appeared on The Today Show, Ellen, CBS Early Show, The CW, VH1, MTV’s Alexa Chung, and CMT Campfire Sessions, as well as many in-studio and remote radio performances. Performed at major venues, festivals, arenas, stadiums, and live events including The Ryman, Stagecoach, Grand Ole Opry, Kadena Air Base Okinawa, The Roxy, Dallas Cowboys Stadium, and SaskTel Centre.
Supported a complex project-cost recovery effort by organizing high-volume project communications and technical records into timelines, reporting tools, and stakeholder-ready materials. Reviewed and organized over 28,000 emails across a 14-month analysis period, defining data-extraction needs, constructing timelines, and identifying recurring issue patterns to support project-record analysis. Created over 30 major project-analysis deliverables, including monthly narrative reports, theme-and-trend reports, master chronology reporting, staff-effort tracking, overage-timing summaries, and Excel-based issue tracking. Built a structured Change Estimate Hours workbook tracking 50 unique Change Estimates, 131 evidence records, 44 main report rows, and 25 issue/question flags through a five-step workflow. Utilized Microsoft 365, AI-assisted synthesis, manual review, and critical thinking to translate unfamiliar construction/project-cost material into clear, evidence-based stakeholder reports under deadline pressure.
Directed development, operations, marketing, partnerships, donor stewardship, volunteer workflows, and public-facing communications to strengthen and revitalize a 66-year-old nonprofit literacy organization. Scaled donations from 43,348 books/media items in 2024 to over 100,000 in 2025, with unique donors growing by 65% through stronger visibility, outreach, and retail activity. Designed operating systems for bookstore execution, volunteer roles, donation intake, sorting workflows, customer/donor interaction, and daily open/close standards. Led marketing, social media management, campaign materials, bookstore advertising, and public-facing communications. Advanced partnerships with schools, nonprofits, local businesses, and community organizations to expand visibility, programming, and community reach through marketing materials, social media, and networking.