Education

Bachelors of Arts in Mass Communication. Emphasis in Media Narrative
North Greenville University, Tigerville South Carolina. 2008

Advanced Education: Certificate of Photography
Miami Ad School @ Portfolio Center for Art Direction, Design & Photography, Atlanta GA. 2011

Experience

Communications Director, Graceland.Church New Albany Indiana — 2019 - Present

• Lead a team of five staff to run all social media, multiple weekly live streams, all internal and external communications including design, print, web, and digital media (photography, videography, podcasts, etc.), public relations, and local community engagement and online presence.

• Create and manage budget for multiple internal organization divisions.

• Ideate, create, develop, and implement marketing strategies for multiple internal organization divisions while staying under one cohesive brand.

• Ideate, create, develop, and design overall and internal departments brand.

• Ideate, create, and develop new products for organization such as web products, digital media products (podcasts, photography, videography).

Adjunct Professor, Boyce College Louisville KY — 2023 - Present

• Adjunct Professor in the communications department of Boyce College.

• Professor of Video Basics course.

• Professor of Fundamentals of Graphic Design course

Owner, Paul Riley Photography — 2009 - Present

• Connect, network, and create new relationships that lead to new clients.

• Ideate, produce, and create products for clients such as photography, videos, communications and marketing strategies, internal processes and documents, and web sites and assets.

• Create and manage budget for business as well as client jobs.

Visual Storyteller, First Baptist Church Clarksville TN — 2013 - 2014

• Ideate, produce, and create stories to build brand loyalty.

• Develop and budget new products such as videos and photography for organizational communication and brand expansion.

• Gather and edit written stories from organization members.