Experience / 30+ years
Built in
chapters.
Creative leadership. Publication design. Photography. Film. The tools changed; the job stayed the same:
Find the idea.Make it clear.
Make it matter.
At a glance
30+years shaping visual communication
30designers led across multiple markets
Leadershipincluding interim communications direction
Full rangedesign · publication · photo · film
Multimedia Specialist · Graphic Designer
Kansas Health Institute / Topeka, Kansas
One person.
A lot of ways
to tell the story.
I lead visual communication across reports, information design, presentations, photography, film and digital work—turning complex public-health ideas into materials people can understand and use.
Creative Services Manager · Niche Projects Manager
Missouri Lawyers Media / Topeka Capital-Journal
Scale the work.
Keep the standard.
I led creative services across multiple publications, locations and markets, then moved into hands-on development of specialty publications and revenue-generating magazine products.
30designers led across multiple locations
Multiplepublishing markets
Centralizedcreative production systems
Owner / Publisher · Director of Niche and Editorial Production
fyi-Jonesboro / Log Cabin Democrat
Build the publication.
Then build
the operation.
I founded an independent arts-and-entertainment publication, then directed editorial and niche production across newspapers, magazines and specialty products—connecting the creative idea to staffing, budgets, production and distribution.
Design Editor
Jonesboro Sun / Jonesboro, Arkansas
The newsroom
made the instincts.
Daily deadlines sharpened the fundamentals: find the idea fast, establish hierarchy, make the page sing and get it out the door. I supervised news design, helped lead a newspaper redesign and extended the work into magazine and specialty publishing.
Dailyeditorial judgment under deadline
Majornewspaper redesign
Award-winningpublication design + presentation
The throughline
Senior enough to see the whole system.
Hands-on enough to build it.
University of Arkansas
Coursework in fine arts, graphic design and photography
Recognition
State, regional and national publication-design awards