Belouga.org / The WhaleTale Foundation - Education Equity | Strategic Consulting

Currently, I am serving as a Strategic Advisor focused on ideating and implementing the partnership between Belouga.org and 501(c)(3) organizations to drive education equity via access to digital tools that promote high-quality learning journies focused on exploration, collaboration, engagement, literacy, mentorship, and community.

Belouga connects students globally, increases empathy, and provides engaging educational content for students & teachers.

Uplifting Strategies - MarComm & Development Agency

Highlight: Increased the acquisition price of Closing Attorney by 15% by leveraging interactions with lenders, agents, brokerages, and past clients to join email newsletters and social channels.

Highlight: Developed app for the same client to bridge communication with Gov. Server APIs to automatically submit PT61 Form Data and eliminate ~40% of data entry.

Highlight: Designed a workflow and trained an offshore team to execute in eliminating a ~20-day backlog of orders with the final product ensuring that every order is set up the day it comes in.

- Developed websites and MarComm infrastructures to enhance client organic reach.

- Created data-driven marketing campaigns to grow newsletter subscribers by ~32%.

- Managed content pipelines and release calendars to coordinate outreach campaigns.

- Produced collateral, blogs, digital graphics, ads, social media posts, and video content.

- Created newsletter campaigns and content to increase website traffic by ~60%.

Atlanta, Georgia | Capitol Building | Senate Office

Honored in GA Senate Resolution 591 (2013), I worked at the Secretary of the Senate office to help oversee Senate and House documents, bills, and resolutions through the legislative process and help provide public access.

Our team worked to interface with the public, prepare and distribute reports on the ongoing status of legislation, and act as the liaison between those on the rostrum, elected officials, media, lobbyists, and the Secretary of the Senate office during the convening of the session.

Early Entrepreneurship, Georgia Southern University, and Model UN

In high school, my entrepreneurial spirit, strategic mindset, willingness to learn new skills, and creative energy met in a whirlwind of activities.

Music was a big influence in my life and a large creative outlet.  My schedule involved:

• Playing the Bass Guitar for our school's Jazz Band every morning.
  
• Symphonic Band twice a week (where I played Trombone)
• Weekly Trombone Practice
• Marching Band Practice twice a week
• Youth Group Music Practice (bass)
• Praise Band Performances at Youth Group (bass)
• Marching Band Performances and Competitions / Parades
• AP Music Theory Class - Theory
• AP Music Theory Lab - Performance
• Church XStream Touring Group - Band Practice (Bass / Trombone)
• Sunday Praise Band Performances
• CLASS ACT - High School Performing Arts Group Twice a week (Bass Guitar)
• CLASS ACT - Regional School Performances (Bass Guitar)
• I played Bass Guitar in a Touring Rock Band
• I recorded multiple albums with 100's of shows

Music was a passion.  But to succeed, I had to be able to learn, adapt, and market the product.  I eventually learned to make my own websites and graphic designs to promote my music endeavors.

This eventually led me to learn 3d Modeling, Animation, Adobe Creative Suite, film editing, and so many more tools from emerging tech.

I transferred this passion into music beyond self-promotion.  In my junior year of high school, we filmed a documentary series throughout the entire marching band season, covering camps, practices, performances, competitions, and messages for the next classes of students. 

We sold the documentary to parents and students and had a nearly 100 percent success rate.  It gained local earned media coverage and spawned requests from other schools for similar production.

Upon graduating high school, I set out to Georgia Southern University.  I continued to play music in bands and occasionally toured and played shows.  I recorded multiple albums and music was still a creative outlet.  I joined the Southern Jazz Band and somehow got recruited into a short-lived sport that would have me - Rugby. 

I eventually discovered the Model United Nations program and became enthralled, applied, and was awarded a new focus - this was another place where my creative strategic thinking could shine and a team of peers who were hungry to collaborate and learn.

Model UN taught me the importance of preparation, being well-rounded, being able to write and speak persuasively, and the ability to lead a team towards a common, uniting purpose.

During my time in the Model UN program, we won numerous competitions - in fact, we won 1st place for position papers and first place as a team of delegates.  I also received the highest honors as an individual delegate. 

It was at the yearly competition in New York City, where I felt most successful as a leader and most alive as a strategist, that I decided I would move to NYC and make my mark.