Web design, videography, photography, graphic design

Business Owner

Essington Creative
2020-Present

At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, my position was eliminated at my prior employer as part of a bankruptcy and I found myself filling out countless applications with no end in sight.  I decided to take advantage of the situation and started my own business venture. 

With Essington Creative, I currently offer web design using WordPress, videography, photography and graphic design, as well as consulting.   

My business's website, including more examples of my work can be found here: https://essingtoncreative.com/

Media Specialist

Murray Energy Corp.
(2014-2020)

As the Media Specialist for Murray Energy, it was my responsibility to handle the company’s creative requests ranging from video, photography, web design and graphic design. In addition I also setup equipment for company meetings, dinners and fundraisers and operate the audio and video aspects of the equipment at these events.

As the company’s sole photographer and videographer, specifically, I captured and recorded content for training purposes, sponsored events and for sales to help educate customers on the  process of mining coal. I archived and distributed content to the company's mines, sales staff, management and news outlets when requested. 

In 2017, I was involved with a small team to build a broadcast studio in the company's St. Clairsville, Ohio office.  The studio was used for live interviews with major news networks such as FOX, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, C-Span and others. I prepared the studio for broadcast, helped get talent ready and was the camera operator during live performances.

As the Media Specialist, I helped manage internal meetings and events with audio and video equipment. I transported and set up audio and video equipment at the company's different locations for various meetings. 

Director of Internet Operations

West Virginia Media Holdings
(2010-2014)

As Director of Internet Operations, I managed six websites on both the news and sales sides of the company. With news I worked to improve quality and traffic of our websites, mobile apps and social media. For sales, I worked with staff to help monetize our sites, apps and social media platforms. I designed web banners for clients and I was the sole trafficker/designer of web advertising for the company. I built and managed unique pages on the company’s sites and mobile applications to offer something different than the competition.

I managed our sites and mobile applications through various content management systems and introduced unique ways of covering stories such as live blogging and live chats. I spearheaded sales opportunities and ways to grow the on social media with sponsored contests and studied what worked and ways to improve.

It was a given that multiple projects would be managed in this position, some being day-to-day operations and some projects with a long-term goal. I’ve worked both with teams and alone on projects individually for each of the company’s markets and on company-
wide projects.

With West Virginia Media I helped consult on various ideas/projects with both news and sales and how to best accomplish tasks. Working in a position that dealt with an evolving medium, I always made sure I was on top of the current trends and changes of internet advertising and digital media. If there’s something I don’t know I take that as a challenge to learn and grow upon.

The websites under West Virginia Media included WTRF.com, WOWKTV.com, WBOY.com, WVNSTV.com, StateJournal.com and
WVIllustrated.com.

Web Producer

West Virginia Media Holdings
(2009-2010)

Before being promoted to Director of Internet Operations, I served as one of the two company-wide web producers for news. Duties included maintaining news, weather and sports content on our websites; writing news content, proof-reading content while keeping with best SEO-practices and AP Style writing. Duties also included graphic and web design.