Working on large-scale structures, public spaces, and public furniture.

• Mig welding
• Tig welding
• Metal fabrication (grinding, cutting, assembly)
• Basic woodworking (cutting, staining, routing, sanding)

Working the weekends to make some extra cash to fund my personal project expenses.

JDB Media is the LLC that I worked under for freelance photography projects. These projects were primarily hospitality-focused: restaurants, bars, and hotels. Also many projects in product, event, nightlife, and portraiture.

• Photographing plates and drinks for the website, social media, and menus
• Designing menus and advertisements
• Serving drinks, food, and good times!

• Photographed and modeled various apparel, soft good, and hard good products for social media and website
• Designed graphics for social media and advertisements

• Designed graphics, patterns, and textures for clothing for various clients
• Designed flats in adobe illustrator for outdoor and recreational fashion
• Conducted research for the design team at an Outdoor Retailer trade show
• Photographed design studio for the design studios website and social media
• Created mockups and assisted in the company's social media accounts

The Commons was a group of students who were thrown in a hypothetical start up to get real-life experience in the world on entrepreneurship. Our team was working towards creating eco-friendly uniforms for companies with a large employee base, to help them be more green and in turn help the world. Here is how I contributed to my group:

• Helped identify our target user and how to design for them
• Researched competing companies and networked with their employees
• Researched possible material options
• Created and fabricated prototypes
• Designed and created our website
• Distributed, documented, and presented our prototypes in action
• Presented our business and product in front of over a hundred business professionals and potential investors

Traversing the business and environmental cases for packaging sustainability, strategies for optimization, design considerations for recovery, and key concepts for sustainable sourcing.

An overview of how the materials used in packaging can affect human health and the environment, with an emphasis on how companies can take action to choose safer materials.

Understanding the diverse family of bio-based and biodegradable plastics. This course covers sourcing and end-of-life considerations for bio-based and biodegradable plastics.

A comprehensive exploration of the role of plastic packaging as an ocean pollutant and how packaging and waste systems can be designed to mitigate or reverse the impacts of ocean pollution.

Exploring the critical problem of food waste and the role that effective packaging design and optimization can play in preventing food waste.

A deep dive into the most important considerations for setting effective sustainable packaging goals that drive change internally and with supply chain partners.

This provides a robust introduction to Responsible Forest Management strategies and the most important considerations for sourcing both virgin and recycled content responsibly.

This course examines the new space of reusable and refillable primary packaging, with insight into how companies can experiment with various reuse models.

A foundational course that explores the basics of composting, the current state of composting infrastructure, residential and commercial access, as well as best practices for compostable packaging design, labeling, testing, and certification.

An introduction to the emerging chemical recycling technologies for plastics, with insights into how these technologies intersect with packaging and the mechanical recycling system.

A course that educates on the quickly growing field of e-commerce, focusing on the sustainability considerations and implications for packaging.