Resume

Who I am

  • A relentlessly user-focused creator of findable, usable, readable, and accessible content.
  • A curious word nerd with agency, enterprise, and editorial experience.
  • A strategic thinker and persistent what-happens-next? asker.
  • A constant collector of new skills and tools.

Where I’ve been

Hilton

Manager, Content strategy and design (2022 – )

  • Lead a team of full-time and contract content designers specializing in user experience across web and mobile platforms
  • Maintain and socialize content design style guidance and best practices


Lead content strategist (2020 – 2022) 
Senior copywriter (2017 – 2020)

  • Led content strategy and content design for a web project migrating luxury hotel sites to a new platform, creating “bespoke” websites at scale
  • Lead a fully remote team of writers in the US and UK
  • Managed content creation and editing for more than 6,000 hotel websites 
  • Develop style guides, taxonomies, training materials, and guidelines for content maintenance
  • Write UX copy for internal and customer-facing web and app interfaces
  • Work alongside Agile product and development teams

Sullivan Branding

Communication strategist (2016 – 2017)
Digital strategist (2014 – 2016)

  • Facilitated audience research and developed messaging and creative strategies 
  • Wrote B2B and B2C campaigns for social, web, print, online display and email
  • Led internal culture committee
  • Curated and contributed content for agency storytelling initiatives
  • Created content calendars and implemented community management and customer care workflows
  • Reported and analyzed traffic and engagement

Memphis Flyer

Freelance columnist (2016 – 2020)

  • Contributed a widely shared and read monthly back-page column
  • Covered a range of topics from local politics to culture, tech, and sports

Entercom

Digital content specialist (2013 – 2014)

  • Managed social, email, and web content for four radio stations, each with a unique audience persona
  • Aligned digital campaigns to on-air content and advertising with earned, owned, and paid media

University of Memphis

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (News/Editorial)

  • Society of Professional Journalists
  • Daily Helmsman newspaper staff