Casey Crary Email & Phone Number

Lead a team of eight designers (directly supervising five), providing art direction, mentorship, coaching, and graphics quality checksDesign top-tier proposals for critical, multi-million dollar pursuits with high visibility in the Midwest region and firmwideTrain and develop staff in both technical and soft skills; facilitate firmwide trainings for nearly 70 designers across the companyOversee the design team’s workload and continuously evaluate and balance the distribution of work based on skillsets, interests, and availability

Greater Chicago Area

• Design offering memorandums ranging from 10-100+ pages for commercial properties• Create and edit vector graphics including maps, site plans, infographics and icons• Edit and re-touch photos for use in offering memorandums and marketing graphics• Produce marketing materials such as flyers, booklets and HTML emails• Prepare files for print and communicate with print vendors• Coordinate photography with external vendors

Greater Chicago Area

Bolingbrook, Il

- Managed the design of all print projects including catalogs, mailers, flyers, postcards and trade publication ads across five divisions- Designed and coded HTML emails and web banners for multiple divisions- Edited and filed all product images and maintained image library- Shot and edited product photos in-house when necessary- Updated and maintained brand standards for five divisions across print and web media- Communicated with print vendors to get estimates, provide print-ready files, and make approvals

-Experience in marketing collateral, identity, social stationery, newsletters and advertisements-Work collaboratively with clients to create print designs, concepts and layouts-Communicate with print vendors and prepare final files for printing

-Designed layouts, spreads, and pages for Dream of a Nation, a book published in Fall 2011-Created graphs, visuals and charts to accompany essays -Conducted photo research, gathering, and outreach for use in the design

-Created and edited package design to maintain brand identity and standards-Design brochures, posters, direct mail and other miscellaneous marketing materials both internally and for private labels-Prepared final files for print and release artwork to print vendors

-Designed ads for businesses for publication-Assisted with photo shoots-Assisted with layouts and page design