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Education
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Issey Sherman

Cincinnati

Summary

Dynamic professional with experience in event planning and execution, honed at King Arthur's Court Toys. Proven track record in creative art direction and social media marketing. Adept at relationship building and management, innovative thinking/problem to enhance customer/client experience and achieve business goals. Variety of artistic abilities such as digital art and design using Procreate and Canva, creative writing used for websites, in-store advertisements, and more, as well as a passion for working with physical mediums such as painting, drawing, face painting, and collaging.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Merchandise/Shipping Manager

Freekbass
10.2025 - Current

Organize and oversee all e-commerce merchandise orders for Freekbass, handle inventory, create shipping labels, pack orders, mail orders, and occasionally run in-person merchandise sales at events and concerts.

Manager

King Arthur's Court Toys
10.2021 - 01.2026

Assist customers, restock inventory, register transactions, create marketing materials for the store, such as designing and drawing monthly stickers, conceptualized, budgeted, planned, and ran multiple events, worked and communicated with brands, performed basic sales data analysis, ran and created social media content, wrote copy for the majority of webpages, trained new employees, introduced and performed face painting at birthday parties, and worked on a variety of other creative projects and campaigns such as the birthday castle experience, new wish lists with personalized art done by me, art for digital gift cards, website headers, marketing emails, assisting with facilitating the Crossroads gift drive in Christmas 2024, and more.

Sales Associate/Customer Service Representative

Wendigo Tea Company
07.2023 - 01.2024

Worked both independently and with others to set up, run, sell, and break down booths selling tea at various local markets such as Findlay and Hyde Park farmers market. Handled cash, merchandising, and occasionally worked on social media and creative marketing projects. Involved various quick thinking/problem solving for unpredictable environments and situations with weather etc.

Assistant Extracurricular Teacher

Acting Skills for Life
09.2021 - 04.2022

Assisted in teaching second-sixth grade students in an after-school acting program. Responsibilities included: leading group activities with students, preparing curriculum for class, keeping attendance, and editing the final performance video.

Education

High School Diploma -

Clark Montessori
Cincinnati, OH
05-2023

Skills

  • Verbal and written communication
  • Event planning and execution
  • Digital drawing techniques
  • Creative arts direction
  • Marketing and promotion strategies
  • Teamwork and collaboration

  • Social media marketing
  • Visual merchandising
  • Creative problem solver
  • Customer service
  • Relationship building and management
  • Public speaking

Accomplishments

  • Took on conceptualizing, planning, budgeting, managing, marketing, and running events at King Arthur's Court such as kids book clubs, a summer kick-off week, princess tea parties, and more. Some events were done independently, and others involved working with my team to lead the project to success. I was able to learn from and improve these events each time as it was a brand new venture for the store and brand as a whole. The most recent success was the Princess Tea Parties that we hosted in 2025, an event I conceptualized and then collaborated with a coworker to execute.


  • Rewrote copy webpages on Kingarthurstoys.com as well as added new ones, photographed and drew art and visuals for the website, and was involved in the task of launching our current ecommerce system for giftcards and wishlist's


  • Began designing and drawing the monthly sticker for King Arthur's Court in February 2025


  • Analyzed sales data on Lightspeed POS and Microsoft Excel to assist in product decision making and collaborated with the head buyer to learn and grow these skills


  • Attended meetings with representatives from various vendors companies to be able to better contribute to related projects


  • Experienced working with various nonprofits and charities such as Asianati for my senior thesis in high school, Winning a grant for Cincinnati Animal Care in 2023, Assisted in facilitating a Christmas toy drive at King Arthur's Court with Crossroads Church, and assisted in event planning for Spencer School and Sands Montessori


  • Added face painting services as an add-on for King Arthur's parties by teaching myself and marketing for the service


  • Created fast-paced yet quality art for the Wishlist's at King Arthur's, as each list receives a personalized webpage on https://kingarthurswishlist.company.site/products/birthday-wish-lists


  • Planned and helped facilitate a 2-week writing course for my fellow students alongside two teachers at Clark Montessori that included communicating with and then taking field trips to the Art Academy, Elementz, The Mercantile Library, meeting with the city Poet Laureate, Yalie Saweda Kamara, and The Tome bookstore.


  • Self-Published 3 books


  • Hosted book signings at Joseph Beth Book Sellers


  • Wrote and Recited my graduation commencement speech


  • Performed and placed in Elementz Echo poetry slam competitions


  • Featured for interviews about my writing on WCPO9 and Local12 news


  • Written purchase orders and communicated with companies about them

Interests

  • Crafting and DIY Projects
  • Creative Writing
  • Blogging
  • Participating in fundraising events
  • Social Justice
  • Animal Care
  • Youth mentoring/Working with children
  • Drawing and Painting
  • Researching a variety of subjects ranging from popculture interests to social and psychological topics
  • Public speaking


Timeline

Merchandise/Shipping Manager

Freekbass
10.2025 - Current

Sales Associate/Customer Service Representative

Wendigo Tea Company
07.2023 - 01.2024

Manager

King Arthur's Court Toys
10.2021 - 01.2026

Assistant Extracurricular Teacher

Acting Skills for Life
09.2021 - 04.2022

High School Diploma -

Clark Montessori