Student Marketing Manager

Working for SUAAB is probably the best job I have ever had…especially considering my last job was cleaning the Student Union and setting up tables. Now I get to make posters and flyers and whatever the hell else needs to be done to market SUAAB events. Graphic Design is most definitely my forte, and it’s really fun for me.

That said, I will proceed to vent my frustrations with people. Specifically, those who can’t make their minds about when an event is going to happen, and those who don’t tell me when they change things. I finished the SUAAB Events Calendar for the fall over two weeks ago. It still hasn’t been printed though because I keep having to make miniscule changes to it whenever one of the dozens of people working in student affairs decides that a video game competition would be better at a later date. I don’t mind perfecting my work, but these people that keep asking for changes don’t understand how much of a hassle it is to open, change, and save a 3ft x 1ft, 300 dpi image when I have 4 other posters that I’m supposed to make by the end of the week!

Well, enough of that. I love this job. It’s pretty much what I want to do with my life: Marketing and Graphic Design.

AutoBiography

I was born October 1st of 1987 in Mobile, AL and promptly moved to Pensacola, FL a month later. It was here that I broke my femur in a go-kart accident on my fourth birthday at a place called Fast Eddy’s. Fast Eddy now has more secure seat-belts…or so I hear. I lived in a small brick house in Pensacola with both of my parents for about 5 years, until my sister, Felicia, was born in 1992. They say she has ADD. I think she’s just making up for my lack of energy.

We moved to Baytown, TX after my sister was born and continued to move around the greater Houston area once every year for the next 10 years. My parents got divorced when I was in the second grade, while we were living in a trailer park in Alvin. I’m pretty sure my mom started smoking that same week. Everything else is pretty boring up until my high school graduation.

I graduated valedictorian from Crosby High School, class of 2005. I wasn’t entirely sure where I wanted to go to college until I found out that I had a full ride scholarship to the University of Texas at Dallas. I like Dallas, but there’s something about the air here that makes my allergies go berserk during the summer. I guess I’m just used to the polluted air and acid rain that Houston is constantly bathing in.

Now I’m in my fourth and final year at UTD, going for a BA in Arts & Technology. I doubt that’s gonna get me very far…hopefully my graphic design portfolio will impress some local marketing firm just slightly more than some other guy with the same exact autobiography as me.