Experience
Creative Director
• Leads global creative services team for $100m firm, reporting directly to the Chief Marketing Officer.
• Collaborates daily with global marketing team to support strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations.
• Contributes to annual budget planning and business strategy discussions, including corporate messaging.
• Directs customer, partner and prospect communications, including emails, monthly magazine and newsletters.
• Performs analysis of competitor branding and product user interface design.
• Reports on design and design technology trends to marketing and product management.
• Manages vendor relationships worldwide.
• Collaborates daily with global marketing team to support strategic initiatives and day-to-day operations.
• Contributes to annual budget planning and business strategy discussions, including corporate messaging.
• Directs customer, partner and prospect communications, including emails, monthly magazine and newsletters.
• Performs analysis of competitor branding and product user interface design.
• Reports on design and design technology trends to marketing and product management.
• Manages vendor relationships worldwide.
Senior Designer
• Acted as the creative lead for all internal and external engagements.
• Lead all design activities, working with account managers to fill all clients’ design and front-end requests.
• Created branding, graphics and HTML for private resort clubs within the parameters of company’s web-based product.
• Collaborated with sales and marketing of Clubessential and Chronologix (subsidiary), to develop all digital and print advertisements.
• Successfully redesigned and implemented a web-based online booking application which maximized design flexibility in existing and future products.
• Lead all design activities, working with account managers to fill all clients’ design and front-end requests.
• Created branding, graphics and HTML for private resort clubs within the parameters of company’s web-based product.
• Collaborated with sales and marketing of Clubessential and Chronologix (subsidiary), to develop all digital and print advertisements.
• Successfully redesigned and implemented a web-based online booking application which maximized design flexibility in existing and future products.
Proxicom/Dimension Data
Designer
• Designer for large portions of client engagements, including lead designer of branding and websites for ExxonMobil Chemicals, Grolier/Baker & Taylor, Gr8ride.com, NPD and Renault.
• Worked daily with clients using a strong knowledge of graphic design principles, a command of design applications and the ability to effectively translate client’s needs to visual solutions.
• Developed design concepts and client deliverables using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, Premiere, AfterEffects, Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Director, HomeSite various HTML editors and all Microsoft Office applications.
• Created engagement specific designs, including extensive work with content management systems (BroadVision and Documentum) and multi-lingual web sites.
• Worked extensively on proposal development for clients such as Amerada Hess, Nike, McNeil/Tylenol and Nissan using Flash, Microsoft PowerPoint and various print-design programs.
• Mentored production artists and collaborated with other designers.
• Worked daily with clients using a strong knowledge of graphic design principles, a command of design applications and the ability to effectively translate client’s needs to visual solutions.
• Developed design concepts and client deliverables using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PageMaker, Premiere, AfterEffects, Acrobat, Macromedia Flash, Director, HomeSite various HTML editors and all Microsoft Office applications.
• Created engagement specific designs, including extensive work with content management systems (BroadVision and Documentum) and multi-lingual web sites.
• Worked extensively on proposal development for clients such as Amerada Hess, Nike, McNeil/Tylenol and Nissan using Flash, Microsoft PowerPoint and various print-design programs.
• Mentored production artists and collaborated with other designers.
Production Artist
• Worked closely with professors to create online classrooms.
• Gained detailed knowledge of HTML, Microsoft Front Page, Adobe Acrobat and proprietary online education applications.
• Illustrated business and financial concepts for professors’ materials, and converted various instructional mediums to web formats.
• Maintained and redesigned several of the Graduate School’s Distance Learning & Instructional Technology web pages.
• Gained detailed knowledge of HTML, Microsoft Front Page, Adobe Acrobat and proprietary online education applications.
• Illustrated business and financial concepts for professors’ materials, and converted various instructional mediums to web formats.
• Maintained and redesigned several of the Graduate School’s Distance Learning & Instructional Technology web pages.
Education
B.A. Studio Art
