Founded by Amy Vargas and myself, First Come Love, Wedding & Event Planning has quickly grown to be a leader in the San Diego wedding industry, planning & coordinating nearly 100 weddings a year. I serve as Creative Director, assisting couples with the visual elements and details of their wedding . I also handle all of First Comes Love’s marketing needs including logo & branding creation, print advertisements & collateral. As a wedding planner I help our clients put together their dream wedding. I rely on my chief skills of organization, direction, and problem solving to execute each event smoothly.

As one half of the design team, I shared responsibilities for all in-store collateral, signage & promotional material, as well as all local & national digital and print advertising for 130 Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes restaurants nationwide. I developed the visual identity for
our new restaurant concept, Souplantation Express. I also instituted a new organizational system for our images that has streamlined production. In addition to my design responsibilities I managed our Digital Marketing Agency & our four company websites.

Filled newly created position to assist and execute the re-branding of Anacomp, a 1000+ employee international Business Process Management Solution company. With this shift, all marketing materials and design responsibilities moved in-house under my direction. As Art Director and sole designer, I created or redesigned all branding and collateral including marketing materials, trade show booths, and the Anacomp web site. On-going projects included the concept, development, and execution for print ad campaigns, HTML e-mail campaigns, and new collateral. Through the years I enthusiastically took on additional marketing responsibilities such as managing Google Ad Word campaigns, SalesForce.com accounts, and coordinating trade shows.

Handled all aspects of visual representation of HydroDynamics’ multiple brands including logos, business cards, print ads, banners, flyers, clothing, packaging, catalogs, presentations and decals. I also served as in-house photographer shooting both product and riders to be used in catalogs and various print media.

Managed and coordinated a production department of seven designers who would layout and design each paper daily. As Art Director I developed and designed all special covers and doubletrucks. Responsible for payroll for department, hiring of designers, discipline and other supervisor duties as needed.