I'm a content strategist who is also a communications designer. Some people use “communications designer” interchangeably with communications director; sometimes creative director; often dual UX, UI designer. I've fulfilled each of these roles, often concurrently, while working on various projects throughout the years.

None of those job titles, though, encapsulates the gist of communications design, which is about thinking about content and its presentation as single, albeit multi-tiered, whole. Meaning, rather than as “content and its presentation,” as simply as content: all of it content — the words, the visuals, the layout, the medium — conceptualized then developed into the final message.

I combine such tenets of communications design with those of storytelling to fashion interdependent characters — again, words, visuals, layout, medium — that collectively invite comprehension and engagement.

That’s my forte and overarching interest. But I've worked with traditional, departmentalized production workflows, too — where one person or team decides strategy, another message, another then writes the words, another creates the visuals, and another lays it all out within the chosen medium. As a seasoned writer, editor, graphic designer, web and email HTML author, and desktop publisher, I can step in wherever needed along a departmentalized ideation-to-production continuum.

I have the experience to supervise teams. But I most enjoy getting my hands dirty with details of helping create campaigns that work.