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Burlington, Ia, Us

Montpelier, Vermont, United States

Building and managing a team of talented multi-disciplinary designers to support a top-ranked engineering firm, driving organizational creative growth through targeted professional development plans, process trainings, and key hires.Providing creative direction and design quality control for submittals, securing $200M+ annual new work booked.Developing process workflows, best practices, and tool kits to right-size efforts, minimizing spend and elevating consistency and quality of work product.Building a new client design services program to increase available scope of services and capture new revenue stream.

Northfield, Vt

Creation of branding, packaging, and collateral for regional brands and nationally distributed products, campaign development and art direction, events promotion, and technical and editorial illustration. Highlights include large-scale installation art at the Boston Calling music festival, full wall illustrated chalkboards at Great Wolf Lodges, and commemorative art posters for the Vermont City Marathon.

Design support for sustainability programing and strategic communications for the electric utility sector.Supported emerging sustainable/connected technology companies in obtaining funding through the design of educational and promotional materials.Product development and collateral creation for a kids' energy education program.

Creation of immersive, branded experiences through signage, environmental graphics, and applied brand messaging. Development of comprehensive environmental brand guides.Concept illustration for spatial and product design.Technical documentation for full signage/graphic programs for venues ranging from boutique retail outlets to 500+ guest room resorts incorporating location planning, phasing, and technical production specifications.Design and implementation of programs and processes to stream-line application of graphics to chain locations.Production of proposals, presentations, and social media graphics.

Developed packaging and branding for seasonal and year-round product lines. Developed visual language for marketing campaigns. Developed and executed on graphic programs for numerous events. Participated in packaging redesign for several regionally distributed heritage product lines. Developed wearable merchandise for retail sales.

Burlington, Vermont Area

Created sales and marketing collateral for a large portfolio of domestic and imported beers. Developed promotional give-away items and on-premise advertising. Provided design support for seasonally rotated menus/campaigns/themes at four restaurants/taprooms. Participated in development of brand stories, visual language, and product naming.

Waitsfield Vt

Edited and maintained area-specific illustrated business maps for a network of 140+ franchises. Production of internal collateral. Preparation of print-ready files. Led rebranding initiative following the merger/acquisition of a competitor company.

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