Jessica grew up in South Bend, Indiana, and spent six years in the U.S. Navy as a Fire Controlman aboard the USS Enterprise. She managed combat systems, led technical teams, coordinated tactical weapons systems, and oversaw $8M in mission-critical equipment across three deployments. While she excelled at the technical work, she discovered her love for leadership, training, and making complex systems actually function under pressure.

After the military, she did what many veterans do: took some time to figure out what "next" looked like. That led to launching an award winning baby boutique in Georgia , teaching herself digital marketing, and eventually building a portrait photography business that has served over 600 clients. What started as a chance in entrepreneurship revealed a genuine talent and love for marketing strategy.

That skillset became a deliberate career shift—earning a BS in Marketing as a first-generation college graduate and currently finishing an MBA in Project Management (May 2026). Today, Jessica leads marketing operations across multiple brands in hospitality, retail, and eCommerce, where she builds full-funnel strategies, implements AI-driven systems, and manages teams that don't hate their jobs. Her superpower is pattern recognition: she spots connections other people miss, executes faster than most, and has a particular talent for untangling marketing messes (the "we have five platforms that don't talk to each other" variety).

She settled in Chattanooga, Tennessee after a stint in the sticks of Georgia—a city that offers the perfect balance of small-town charm with actual proximity to civilization. When she's not digging into analytics or training marketing teams, she's reading industry research like normal people read fiction, taking long walks by the river, binge-listening to true crime podcasts, and working through her third iced latte of the day.

Favorite foods:

Fancy coffee, Indian food, anything buffalo flavored, and dessert.

Favorite Martini:

Sour Apple or Lemon Drop

Hometown:

South Bend, Indiana

Zodiac

Leo

Myers-Briggs Type

The rare INFJ

Enneagram

Type 3