Who I Am
I am originally from southern California but I have also lived in Hawaii, Georgia, Tennessee, Holland and Spain. I am opinionated, stubborn and sarcastic but also open, sensitive and sweet. I drive a sports car. If I could have a super power, I would want to fly. I collect frogs - in fact one of my tattoos is a tree frog. I am marrying my best friend in March. I have an amazing family, awesome friends and also have the honor to work with some incredible people. I absolutely love Nashville but I will always be a California girl at heart.
What I Do
You can call it web content management, online marketing or interactive marketing but basically I'm the "web girl" for a somewhat random collection of companies (who I fondly refer to as my clients). This makes me self-employed, which means no paid vacation. It also means I get to work from home or anywhere with an Internet connection. I have two laptops because yeah one isn't enough. I have an iBook G4 and an HP which is pretty new thus it has Vista. I work mostly from the Mac so I guess you could say I love it more. I spend a lot of time on myspace and I check my email constantly. I also text a ton and am on call basically 7 days a week, 14 hours a day. All of my clients are somehow connected to the Christian music industry which is good because I love music and I love God and I am passionate about combining the two. I hope I will always be fortunate enough to earn a living doing something related to music.
How I Got Here
Back in 1990 (yes we have to start back there), I saw a music video by a new Christian group called dc talk. The video was for the song "Heavenbound" and I was hooked. I promptly purchased DC TALK and Nu Thang on cassette and wore them out. In 1992 I got Free at Last the day it came out - on CD. I joined the Vibe Tribe and used my pass to go backstage during the Free At Last tour in Atlanta and Chattanooga. I got to college in 1994 and began working part-time on campus in the computer lab. I learned how to make a web page and decided to make one for dc talk. Soon after, I connected with a few other creators of dc talk fan sites and we joined together to create ardent-enthusiast.com - an archive of dc talk information - along with the enewsletter dc [net] talk. Soon after the release of Jesus Freak, I met some people who worked with dc talk, and then I met Toby. He liked our site.
After graduating from college and earning a degree in graphic design, I moved to Nashville for a job at a Christian music magazine. dc talk's management hired me and my web partner to do dctalk.com. That was in 1999 and lasted for about a year. In January of 2003, I was contracted again ... this time to help update taitband.com and tobymac.com.
I never set out to do what I'm doing now. I would never have even dreamed it to be an attainable goal. I just wanted to make a web site for music I liked, and meet other people who liked it too. I look back and see how God has guided me to the exact place He wants me and I am in awe. Is it a job that is always enjoyable? No. Do I make a lot of money? No. Isn't it cool working from home? Sometimes. But mostly I feel very blessed to be able to work with artists who create art that I love, with a message that I very much believe.
