I often get surprised responses from people who find out that I can provide photography and design services. I provide photography and design services because it’s what I enjoy. I’m not trying to make a living. I am by no means a professional and have never claimed to be. I have no interest in paying Facebook to “promote” my posts about my design business. I have a full time job. Not only that, but I LOVE my job. I love the company I work for, and the people I work for. I am extremely blessed to have found my career at an early age and have been able to grow with a company as unique and wonderful as Orchard Software Corporation.
I’ve worked for Orchard for 13 years in the Product Management Department. Prior to that, I worked as an IT Administrator for a national title insurance company. My main responsibility is writing proposals along with some other administrative duties like maintaining our department website, contributing to many committees, providing technical support to sales staff and on site at industry trade shows. I’m a jack of all trades and have a very unique skill set that makes me very good at what I do. My career started over 20 years ago in graphic design. After about 15 years, I reached an impasse where I wanted to go further in my career but once you’re a staff graphic designer, there’s not a lot of room to move up. So I sacrificed my love of design to take on a product management role. In order to keep my passion for creativity alive, I picked up more freelance work like photography and design services for others.
A lot of people tell me that I do them huge favors and they’re so happy with what I can provide. I wish they knew the magnitude of what THEY provide for ME. Being creative makes me feel alive. To capture a person, an event, a theme, with colors and lines and mediums, light, and shadows…..it speaks to me on a level that I cannot achieve any other way. I can only hope that my “clients” know that they help me just as much as I help them.
