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United States

World-Wide

Design of corporate/brand identity, business packages, postcards, flyers, CD covers, email blasts, and all forms of marketing material for large and small businesses worldwide. Photograph fashion, portrait, product, and architectural subjects as well as photo retouching & manipulation. See samples of my work at www.Brooke Ernst.com

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Manage and facilitate all internal and external design. Strategize company & departmental growth with client retention, while maintaining a trusting, supportive department culture.External Clients: Build design department from the ground up. Manage all client relationships. Provide designer assignments as well as work hands-on. Develop and define brands from concept to final product that ensures company vision. Each client ranges in industry, company size, and project type. Increased department profitability year-over-year.Internal Design & Marketing: Developed complete company re-brand, creative voice, and all brand standards. Oversee and create all design assets, messaging, email campaigns, online advertising, promotional designs, sales material & outside advertising. Developed social media strategy, content creation, and manage scheduling. Personally write over 75% of blogs, oversee and conduct all product photography.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Gaming corporation that owned and operated 3 Las Vegas casinos. Oversaw the in-house agency that provided all design for each casino. Worked with all venues to meet their advertising and collateral needs. Designed all casino promotions and collateral for restaurants, shows, hair salon, hotel and other entities. Managed project scheduling and saw each job from concept to completion; making sure all creative met the needs of the requesting department and that each upheld the integrity of the brand. Absorbed many marketing responsibilities including: social media strategy/content/interaction, online & print media plan/buy, marketing strategy, direct mail & email calendar as well as oversaw all vendor relations (printers, web development, retargeting, PPC, SEO, & PR). Achievements: • Fully rebranded the Plaza Hotel & Casino in 90 days during a $35 Million renovation.• Re-branded the Las Vegas Club Casino to better fit their customer.• Solely completed 175-225 jobs each month.• Laid out 25 unique, tiered direct mail offers and then translated each into eblasts & online offers monthly.• Developed tracking system for all current and completed jobs to ensure timely delivery and proper archival.• Over $100k savings each year by keeping all design in-house and by limiting labor.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

Gaming corporation that owned and operated 5 casinos nationwide. I designed marketing materials for each of these casinos. Work included print ads, billboards, marquees, on-property collateral & direct mail. I also handled all retouching and photo manipulation and photographed promotional items such as food, prizes and people.Achievements: • Saved company over $15k each year in retouching. • Helped re-brand the Aquarius Hotel & Casino.• Designed many national campaigns.

Lake Oswego, Or

Photography studio that held school district & sport league photography contracts. Also photographed senior portraits, families, business portraits and architectural areas. I was in charge of all design & advertising for in-house and outside clients. Handled all photo retouching, manipulation, and photo restoration. Designed posters, postcards, company website, order forms, CD covers, flyers, promotional material, product design and oversaw all print production.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Graphic Design

Associate Of Arts (Aa), General Studies

Activities and Societies: Yearbook Editor, Middle-School Sunday School Teacher,

Photography