Alison Bjertnes Email & Phone Number

Wading River, Ny, Us

Hauppauge, New York, United States

Create and oversee all marketing collateral. Provide internal divisions with design standards, tools and guidance on communicating corporate image, branding, and identity. Oversee the design and production operations of all visual elements including publications, infographics and social content as well as other platforms that are deployed over digital, interactive and print, ensuring they meet the Marketing Manager’s vision and the corporate design standards and identity. Stay current on the latest design trends in the industry and brings those ideas to the CMO and Marketing Managers for their consideration. Ensure regulatory review processes are followed for the creation of all marketing pieces. Warrant that final copy is thoroughly reviewed to limit errors prior to production. Monitor projects and timelines. Manage a network of vendors, freelance artists, web video designers and designers to utilize for project support.Management of the Graphic Design Team. Delegate activities to members of the Graphic Design Team ensuring the team is at full workload capacity and project timelines are met. Provide training for the Graphic Design Team so they have the tools and skills required to produce varied high quality marketing materials. Manage the day-to-day functions of the Graphic Design Team, ensuring all corporate policies are adhered to.

Hauppauge, Ny

Design and develop new product packaging, print and online advertisements, social content, product and company brochures/catalogs, marketing and sales kits.

Long Island, Ny

Graphic design and illustration: social and web content, logos, brochures, packaging, business cards, flyers, ads, invitations, labels, postage stamps, stationary, magazine/publication layout, merch - just about anything!

Long Island, Ny

Perform essential classroom responsibilities in schools within the districtMaintain district and individual schools’ educational and behavioral guidelinesPresent educational material utilizing diverse teaching strategies to accommodate diverse learning stylesDevelop and maintain beneficial relationships with students, faculty and administrators

Long Island, Ny

Complete layout and design of monthly 48 page publication (including front and back covers and 44 interior pages). Design ads for clientele when requested, layout and design plain-text press releases into visually appealing articles, and correspond with contributing editors, advertisers and printers to assure that each month’s issue is relevant to current events and engaging to the reader. Consistently updating/revising aspects of publication to make readability and graphic elements excel. Press Club of Long Island 2013 First Place Winner for layout design in the Visual-Photo Essay category (Belmont Stakes spread in July 2012 issue).

• Designed and developed comprehensive lists categorizing over 300 projects which included updating project statuses daily and relaying information to other offices within the company through emails and conference calls and keeping up to date with prototype, tooling and revision costs for each project.• Contributed to updating company Sharepoint list, working with a project manager from our other office, with current statuses, pricing, and time lines with access to all employees.• Participated in seasonal team meetings, arranging samples to be available for the sales team by either providing mock-up samples made in house, or relaying needs and setting up schedules with factory in Hong Kong to assure projects would be ready in time for meetings and trade shows throughout the year.• Responsible for designing packaging, logos, brochures, business cards, flyers, ads, and web site designs. Printed and built mock up packages of all kinds which clients used for selling to buyers, trade shows and presentations.• Managed large projects from start to finish (from a blank "canvas" to packing up and shipping to a client).• Helped direct other employees to proficiently complete jobs quickly and correctly.• Managed several large presentation projects for important clients from beginning stages to end stages (designing and executing presentation boards, building requested props, and following through with exactly what the client desired).• Multi tasked between projects and tasks to get several jobs accomplished each day.• Corresponded with factories in Hong Kong in order to satisfy clients’ needs, and corresponded with clients in countries including Brazil, Holland, Canada, China, and Mexico.

Responsible for designing packaging, logos, brochures, business cards, flyers, ads, and web site designs. Printed and built mock up packages of all kinds which clients used for selling to buyers, trade shows and presentations.

Southampton, Ny

• Designed ads utilizing the corporate branding and style guidelines to be placed in several weekly publications with constant tight deadlines.• Laid out real estate advertisement window signs for office windows.• Photo retouched several photos of homes and employee portraits.• Designed fliers, newsletters, promotional signs, T-shirts and other corporate media needs.• Constant daily communication with several of the hundreds of company real estate agents regarding advertising requests/requirements, photo retouching, coordinating photo shoots with photographers and assistance in setting up ads in company online ad module.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Childhood Education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Graphic Design