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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Greater Pittsburgh Region

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Senior Visual Designer
• Develop and nurture brands, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications for all internal and external clientele.
• Evaluate trends, assess new data and keep up-to-date with the latest marketing and design techniques.
• Assist clients in establishing HCI standards, usability consultation, and rapid prototyping digital products.
• Create and implement personalized web interfaces, workflows, and feedback driven models.
• Direct brainstorming meetings and creative sessions, and all client meetings.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Responsible for all custom web graphics both internal and external facing.
• Managed and migrated multiple Microsoft Azure baked Wordpress site instances in addition to content updates and supplemental visual asset creation.
• Worked directly with enterprise level teams to implement changes and updates to pages, content, and tie-in with marketing & social media efforts.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Responsible for owning and evolving the evo-me brand, brand guide, and all print & digital dependencies. This is including but not limited to: Branding standards, website, collateral, internal assets, video production.
• All iOS UI prototypes and UX process flows, the constant shifts and all the rapid changes that may come with prototyping for agile teams. Ability to communicate these ideas cleanly and effectively using both.
• Design and write original content for all social channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.), for application microsite, and supplemental landing-pages.
• Fitness/Health community and events engagement, researching, leveraging, and managing social and industry mediums to engage in local and national events, also designing and producing all event-specific marketing assets.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Design and maintain the face of all forward facing web application interfaces and supporting digital/print assets.
• Collaborate with and manage a small team of designers and developers overseas ensuring marketing alignment, brand retention, and timely project completion.
• Work with our localized development team to support the Mindmatrix brand through all channels.
• Develop marketing materials for internal and external use.
• Develop event / trade show collateral and align with corporate marketing or current campaigns.
• Write and check content for social media, corporate webspace, digital and print materials.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Overhaul / Redesign of premiere product UI/UX (6-12mo project completion/per product)
• Digital/Print Marketing and Social Media Strategy development and implementation.
• Wordpress company site consultation, UI/UX design, management/internal support, and training specialist.
• Content creation for multiple platforms both mobile, web, and print.
• In-House advertising for small business platform based applications.
• Building out, testing, and managing custom reports via Crystal Reports.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Determine proper social strategy, implementation, and execution, reach optimization, metrics tracking and reporting.
• Content management and development for all social channels including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Analytics and reporting utilizing Radian6, SocialBro, and RavenTools software suites.
• Social strategy development for B to B business, roadmapping, trending, and complete competitive analytics.
• Drive social efforts between departments including: Public Relations, Community Outreach, and Corporate Communications.
• Understanding of corporate regulatory limitations and legal boundaires that intertwine with banking/investing industry social space.

Downtown Pittsburgh Area

• Landing Page design and implementation for multiple in-house clients.
• Worked with Project Managers to develop inter-company communications for new and existing software/hardware.
• Clients included The Art Institutes, Brown Mackie College, South Univeristy, Argosy University.
• Worked with network and infrastructure teams to contruct and develop web tools for a 14k+ userbase.
• Shot company photography, and also developed technical systems documentation for end user clients.

• Graphic Design Extern
• Worked with Creative Teams to come up with design solutions for clients in print, multimedia, and web.
• Clients included Tippmann Paintball, PPG Paints, Royal Caribbean, Boy Scouts of America.
• Worked with in-house Production Team to prepare and create print ready material.
• Shot photography and video for numerous in-house productions.

• Served as an Intern / Creative
• Worked with Creative Teams to come up with design solutions for clients in print and web.
• Clients included Del Monte, Together Pittsburgh, Heinz, Kings Family Restaurants.
• Collaborated with account management in dealing with job pricing.
• Directed and shot photography for numerous products.

Pittsburgh, PA

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