Experience
FirstBank Mortgage Mortgage Marketing Specialist
SEP 2024 — JUL 2025
Brand Awareness & Custom Marketing: Spearheaded brand awareness initiatives by developing and executing marketing strategies that spotlighted mortgage loan officers, showcased home lending products, and promoted exceptional client experiences. Designed customized branded materials-including print flyers, social media graphics, event signage, direct mail, rack cards, website enhancements, and other creative assets-to support loan officer initiatives and campaign objectives, leveraging AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and enhance targeting and personalization. While always prioritizing privacy, compliance, and brand identity standards.
CRM Management: Oversaw the customer relationship management platform Total Expert, to maintain marketing communications, support lead acquisition, execute targeted campaigns and monitor client journeys through data reporting and analytics. Managed all print and digital assets, utilized TE email campaign builder to produce a weekly partner newsletter with key interest rate updates, market trends, and industry news & highlights. This widely read newsletter reached over 15,000 top real estate agents across the Southeast, achieving an average 54% open rate.
Social Media: Managed social media content calendar for loan officers using SocialCoach, AI tools, and automation platforms to execute strategic campaigns that increased visibility, improved SEO, and positioned loan officers as trusted local mortgage experts. Redesigned content categories to boost engagement and value-resulting in a 22% rise in paid participation and 12% follower growth.
Loan Officer Support & Training: Provided comprehensive support to loan officers through webinars, personalized training sessions, and instructional how-to videos-ensuring they remained proficient with the latest tools and system resources. Led onboarding sessions for new loan officers and associate team members, introducing them to the full marketing toolkit, available assets, and technology stack.
Mortgage Investors Group Sr. Creative Director
JUL 2001 — JUN 2024
Brand Development: Led the development and ongoing evolution of the company's brand to ensure a cohesive, recognizable presence across all marketing channels. Expanded the brand to foster stronger audience connections and build long-term relationships with clients and partners, including the major rebrand project in 2019. This initiative drove higher brand awareness, increased engagement, and improved customer sentiment-ultimately leading to a measurable rise in meaningful conversions.
Graphic Design & Content Creation: Directed the creative team in developing content strategies and producing impactful visuals that fueled successful marketing campaigns and reinforced brand identity across loan officer and corporate initiatives. Delivered clear, timely messaging tailored to audience funnel stages-ensuring relevance, engagement, and adherence to brand, compliance, privacy, and security standards.
Asset Management: Audited and updated 200+ marketing assets annually to reflect industry trends and creative direction, ensuring brand consistency and regulatory compliance-contributing to a 20% reduction in asset revisions and faster time-to-market for campaigns.
CRM Development & Management: Spearheaded all content, asset development and system integrations for Total Expert. Designed and managed a wide range of deliverables-including print materials, social media content, digital assets, landing pages, and custom emails. Leveraged platform tools to strengthen partnerships, optimize data use, enhance client experiences, and maintain consistent, compliant messaging. Utilized CRM tools to drive a 350%+ increase in refinance loan volume during the 2003 boom by presenting personalized loan scenarios that clearly illustrated cost or incentive savings, prompting borrower action.
Social Media & Email Design: Designed custom social media and email templates to enhance brand visibility, provide value, and maintain consistent messaging. Strategically structured content-from subject lines to personalized CTAs-to align with campaign goals, boost engagement, and drive measurable results, including a 200% average increase in conversion rates, higher open and click-through rates, and follower growth.
Signage & Vendors: Designed, produced, and managed all corporate and loan officer signage needs-including branch locations, MSAs, real estate offices, promotions, co-branded initiatives, and events-while maintaining strong vendor relationships to ensure seamless coordination and high-quality execution of outsourced projects.
Education
Applied Science & Commercial Graphics Associates Degree and Film Production Certificate
Trident Technical College
Final GPA: 3.8
Dean's List: Summer & Fall Term 1997 & 1998
Focused Studies: Graphic design, marketing communications, photography, page layout and film production
Worked on multiple independent film projects & commercials
Completed Career Advancement Program prior to graduation
Special Skills
Brand development, increased recognition and strategic awareness
Graphic design including impactful & transforming visuals and deliverables
Content creation guided by data-driven insights & AI to enhance SEO and elevate brand visibility
CRM Management, including client data optimization, workflow automations, print & digital asset management, and audit report processing to provide enhanced client & partner relationships
Adobe Creative Suite: Specializing in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Premier Pro, Media Encoder, Lightroom, Adobe Express, Acrobat and more
Applications: Canva, Microsoft Office Suite, Presentation Slide Decks, Total Expert, Google Ads, Experience.com, Asana, Monday.com, Elementor, Squarespace, SocialCoach and more
Web development, HTML coding, digital design, email building and creative copy-writing
High-quality video production and editing, including animation and motion graphics
Ability to work in fast-paced, high-stress environments with quick turnaround times
Collaborative team player with strong communication skills and a dependable work ethic
Key Achievements
FirstBank Mortgage
Created and managed largest partner email campaign, Rate Recap, exceeding industry open rate by over 30%
Redesigned and organized content for SocialCoach, social media automation platform, creating 200+ custom assets to enhance engagement and boost follower growth
Delivered personalized training to loan officers and associates on new tools and systems, reducing setup time by over 75% through improved workflows and streamlined processes
Mortgage Investors Group
Successfully led the brand refresh in 2019, leading to a significant increase in brand recognition within the first year
Played a key role in business growth by developing promotional materials that elevated awareness for branch openings and product launches
Led the design and rebranding of the website relaunch in 2007 and 2012
Employee of the Year Award, 2004