Jessica grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and spent six years in the U.S. Navy as a Radar Technician and Combat Systems Supervisor aboard the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. She managed mission-critical radar systems, led a five-person technical team, and was responsible for $8M in specialized combat system electronics. She earned a Navy Achievement Medal for her work, but what she really discovered during those three deployments was her love for leadership, problem-solving under pressure, and making sense of complex systems.

After the military, she did what many veterans do: figured out what "civilian life" actually meant. That journey included a stint in apartment leasing and marketing in Atlanta, launching an award-winning children's boutique in Georgia (Georgia's Children's Boutique of the Year, 2017), and eventually building a portrait photography business that grew to serve over 600 clients. What started as a jab at entrepreneurship revealed a genuine talent for marketing strategy, brand building, and client relationships.

That discovery led to a deliberate career shift—earning a BS in Marketing as a first-generation college graduate, then diving into corporate marketing roles that combined her technical military background with her self-taught digital expertise. She's currently finishing an MBA in Project Management (graduating May 2026) because apparently she likes academic punishment and professional credentials equally.

Today, Jessica leads marketing operations across multiple brands in hospitality, retail, and e-commerce. She builds full-funnel strategies, implements AI-driven workflows that actually save time (not just add complexity), manages cross-functional teams, and has a particular gift for walking into marketing chaos and building systems that make sense. Her superpower is pattern recognition: she spots connections other people miss, executes faster than most people plan, and has an unusual ability to translate technical jargon into language normal humans understand—probably a holdover from explaining radar systems to officers who just wanted to know if the thing worked.

She's based in Signal Mountain, Tennessee (just outside Chattanooga), after relocating from rural Georgia—a move that restored her faith in reliable internet and proximity to good coffee. The area offers the perfect balance: enough nature to take long walks without sitting an hour in traffic, enough civilization to get decent takeout, and the fastest internet in the country.

When she's not buried in analytics, rebuilding website navigations, or coaching marketing teams through Yet Another Platform Migration, she's reading marketing research reports like normal people read novels, walking the riverwalk while mentally reorganizing content calendars, binging true crime podcasts (because marketing strategy and murder investigations require similar investigative skills), and working through her third iced coffee of the day. She's also a regular contributor to Chattanooga Moms Blog and occasionally hosts their annual events, which means she's fully accepted her fate as a local.

Favorite foods:
Fancy coffee (decaf these days—adulting is brutal), Indian food, anything buffalo flavored, and dessert. Always dessert.

Favorite Martini:
Sour Apple or Lemon Drop (the unofficial drinks of Leo women everywhere)

Hometown:
South Bend, Indiana

Currently calls home:
Signal Mountain, Tennessee

Zodiac:
Leo (which explains the leadership thing and the coffee consumption)

Myers-Briggs Type:
The rare INFJ (strategic, pattern-obsessed, and definitely overthinking this bio)

Enneagram:
Type 3 (achievement-oriented, competitive with herself, possibly too many tabs open right now)

Currently reading:
A textbook, industry reports, and 4 half-finished novels that bounce between Hallmark romance and murder (no in-between, apparently)

Ask her about:
The first time she saw real-life pirates (yes, actual pirates), the last place she traveled to, why women should rule the world, or the best coffee shop in Chattanooga