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• Honed critical thinking and problem-solving skills by working with a variety of project managers to produce consistent creative
• Executed hundreds of print design projects, ranging from logos and identity packages to direct mail and point-of-sale marketing pieces
• Led print layout and design direction of all in-house and elite agent projects
• Key communicator on a strategic marketing and communications team of 12
• Worked closely with in-house copywriter, web designer and videographer to ensure cohesive marketing across all mediums
• Served as in-house photographer for a variety of custom shoots

• Delegating the daily tasks of the art department including training employees and managing freelancers to make sure proofing and production stays on a tight schedule
• Established corporate identity standards that are applied to all aspects of the company including aesthetics as well as procedures
• Designing product templates and coordinating printed pieces as well as POP displays and tradeshow booths
• Generating promotional materials such as catalogs, product sheets, postcards, industry publication ads, website, email blasts, rep kits and other business collateral
• Researching the most effective use of vendors and other resources to complete each project
• Responsible for print bids, preparing and sending the files to print and overseeing press checks

• Worked closely with the creative director to take projects from conceptualization to print. Compiled client presentations and made revisions as needed.
• Projects included variable direct mail pieces, business collateral, brochures, outdoor advertising and website layout.
• Knowledge of the printing process including preflight, digital variable printing, print specs and press checks.

Our family still has a fully functioning printshop and I continue to enjoy silkscreening when the opportunity arrises. This is where I first found my love for taking an idea and seeing it through to the final, printed product. Ladd Ink is where I started developing my knowledge of the printing process as well as learning the administrative side of a small.