Experience 2016 · present

Experience.

Ten years in marketing, the last four focused on SEO. From high-school competition and in-house internships through a client-facing agency.

01 · Roles

The chronology.

Jun 2025–Present

Senior Account Strategist, Content & SEO

Directive · Newport Beach, Remote (San Diego) Full-time · Promoted from Account Strategist

Senior Account Strategist (Jun 2026 – present), promoted from Account Strategist (Jun 2025 – Jun 2026). Client-facing role running content + SEO strategy for five B2B programs in cybersecurity, HR tech, observability, legal tech, and marketing tech. Mid-market through enterprise.

  • $70K+ MRR / $840K+ ARR managed solo across the book.
  • Q1–Q2 2026: 100% KPI attainment across all accounts, both quarters (3 of 3).
  • Featured case (cybersecurity SaaS): +45% MoM organic clicks from a comprehensive schema rollout. Single-variable test, no new content.
  • Featured case (legal SaaS): organic drove 362 influenced demos in six months, 29% of all demos and the largest single channel. The results led the client to move budget off a 3-year incumbent paid-media relationship into a $150K organic engagement.
  • Featured case (creator-tools SaaS): inherited the account and grew it into an $18K MRR program, then a sitewide schema rollout and stale-date cleanup drove LLM-referred traffic +353.5% MoM (about 11x in two months) and organic subscriptions to a record 2,548/month, the highest since Oct 2024.
  • Featured case (creator-tools SaaS): self-initiated 929-page programmatic SEO audit using a custom AI-native scoring methodology. Keep / Improve / Consolidate / Kill, bucketed into 45 topical hubs.
  • Piloting Directive's GEO playbook: retrofitting client content for LLM/AI-answer visibility, tracked in Scrunch AI.
Ahrefs SEMrush GSC GA4 Looker Studio Asana Scrunch AI Claude Code
Aug 2023–Jun 2025

SEO Manager

Fusion92 · Chicago, Remote Full-time · Promoted from Specialist

SEO Manager (Aug 2024 – Jun 2025), promoted from SEO Specialist (Aug 2023 – Aug 2024). Led SEO strategy for Fortune 100s and SMBs across education, hospitality, finance, and B2B commodities.

  • State-sponsored financial services provider: +20% organic sessions, +61% organic conversions, +38% keyword visibility YoY (blog strategy + Core Web Vitals work with dev).
  • National swim school brand: +12% YoY organic traffic, +60% keyword rankings, +56% SERP results (full site redesign + GBP optimization + schema rollout).
  • Boutique event design firm: 32 newly-optimized pages launched in a full-site redesign.
  • Portfolio of 10+ vacation brand websites: ongoing SEO management for consistent YoY ranking and traffic growth.
  • Global food ingredient manufacturer: 12 custom SEO reports (one per business unit) for international strategy.
  • Built dynamic Looker Studio dashboards; monthly C-suite reporting.
SEMrush Ahrefs Screaming Frog GA4 GSC Looker Studio WordPress
May 2023–Aug 2023

Marketing Intern

Singular Genomics · La Jolla, CA Internship · Genomics platform

Summer internship at a genomics platform. WordPress SEO, LinkedIn + Twitter content, HubSpot lead scoring + funnel routing, and a sales-deck redesign for brand consistency.

WordPress HubSpot
Jan 2023–Apr 2023

Marketing Intern

PorchLight Realty · San Diego, CA Internship

Built and ran Instagram for a new brand from scratch. Filmed and produced all content. Multi-platform analytics for campaign decisions; SEO + UX optimization on the existing site.

Instagram GA WordPress
May 2022–Aug 2022

Employment Branding Intern

DISH (now EchoStar) · Denver, CO Internship

Designed a new 30-page career site (wireframed from scratch) to lower bounce rate and streamline applicant flow. Produced and edited promoted social content.

  • 175K+ people reached on promoted social.
  • +40% Instagram followers.
Figma DISH internal tools
Jan 2021–Dec 2021

Social Chair

Sigma Chi · San Diego State University Volunteer leadership

Elected Social Chair of the SDSU chapter. Planned and ran every chapter social event for the year, managed the Instagram account, and led a philanthropy week.

  • Managed a $50K social budget across the calendar.
  • Led a philanthropy week that raised $68K for cancer research.
  • Chapter took Chapter of the Year.
Instagram
02 · Also

Education

  • BS, Marketing · 2019 – 2023 · 3.5 GPASan Diego State University.
  • Pre-college · DECAChapter president in high school. Senior year, took 1st in two state-level events (a marketing communications roleplay and a 15-page integrated marketing campaign) and was a finalist at nationals.

Certifications

  • GoogleGoogle Ads Search Certification.
  • SEMrushLocal SEO Course.
  • SEMrushSEO Fundamentals Course.
  • SEMrushTechnical SEO Course.
  • SEMrushMobile SEO Course.
03 · Also

Speaking

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