Bentonville Merchants Inc. is primarily a sales and marketing company. My job with them started as a freelance gig doing packaging design and branding for a few of their clients. Since then I have become a full time employee and their senior creative director.

Most of our clients are factories, inventors and entrepreneurs who are trying to land a spot on the shelf in Walmart or Sam's Club. Because we have such a wide range of clients and products my job is very broad. A lot of what I do day to day involves designing packaging and in store displays for our items. Many of our clients do not understand the American consumer market and so they come to us to help them with their design needs. For this reason, I am often doing branding and product development for many of our client's items. At Bentonville Merchants there is nothing that is out of our ballpark. My responsibilities are to meet every design need that our clients come to us with whether it be branding, web design, display design, in store signage, packaging, product development or presentation design. There is nothing we will say no to.

Some of the clients that I have done design work for:

Mossy Oak Outdoors
Vidi Action Cam
Impact Gel
Daplie Cloud
Cube
Barra
Ozark Trail
Black Web

I currently as an associate digital designer for DaySpring. Essentially, my job is to create content for their social media marketing and their new “Share Platform” called the eCard Studio. I have been in charge of building up a diverse library of shareable images. Along with this, I have been in charge of managing/organizing freelance work and writing up creative briefs.

For 3 years I worked as a designer for the JBU Music & Theatre department. In this job I was responsible for all of the design and advertising material for recitals, plays, music performances etc. On a daily basis I worked on designing posters, programs, advertisements and web banners. I also worked with preparing files for press and managing the printing process.

For one summer I worked at a desgin firm in Bentonville, AR called Adair Creative Group. I was hired as a designer, and my tasks ranged from designing magazine ads, to workbooks, to logos and everything in between. I worked closely with the head designer and assisted in designing various print and digital files. We worked with clients like Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Shiloh Christian School and Mercy Hospital. I was able to assist with design changes and updates on many large scale projects, as well as take on a few of my own smaller projects.

This past summer I was able to travel to Budapest, Hungary where a team of 10 designers and photographers spent 2 weeks working closely with an organization called Youth With A Mission. Our goal for the trip was to connect with the YWAM base in Kyiv, Ukraine and work on a re-branding and advertising campaign. For two weeks our team collaborated and created a new, unifying brand as well as various advertising materials such as banners, posters, postcards, T shirts etc.. Throughout the process I was put in charge of two big parts of the project. The first was designing a series of postcards to advertise different parts of their ministry, and secondly I was assigned to gather all of the files and set them up for print. Essentially everyone would bring their completed design files to me and I would check them for errors and make sure they were press ready.

Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic & Web Design + Minor in Photography from John Brown University in Siloam Springs, AR