Corey Knapp Email & Phone Number

Monroe, Va, Us

Microsoft (MSA)● Proficiently employs Adobe Suite, Articulate 360, and Microsoft Office Suite to design, execute, and implement digital design elements/media.● Conducts regular design reviews and provides constructive feedback to team members.● Designs custom icons in adherence to brand guidelines, ensuring a cohesive and recognizable visual language.● Applies graphic design expertise to create visually compelling and learner-friendly course materials.● Performs regular audits of existing courses, identifying areas for improvement in visuals and interactivity.● Evaluates use cases and accessibility compliance to provide user-friendly results to a diverse audience.● Ensures consistency in fonts, colors, and overall design aesthetics, enhancing the brand's visual representation.● Solves problems through collaboration and innovation, and exercises sound business judgment in assessing and prioritizing multiple competing opportunities.● Appropriately handles sensitive, confidential materials and respect and maintain confidentiality of sensitive organization topics and issues.● Effectively communicates to project team and stakeholders to achieve business objectives with efficiency, transparency, and collaboration.● Creatively conceptualizes, communicates, and prototypes design projects from beginning to end.

● Administers diverse design services for clients across industries to include logos and brand identity development, as well as motion graphics and social media campaigns with a focus on brand communication and digital marketing.● Consults with clients on diverse projects to include illustrations, layout design, print collateral, digital design, presentations, icons, typography, billboards, vehicle wraps, packaging, and videos.● Engages clients and maximizes satisfaction by gathering requirements, establishing scope, and managing project milestones with Asana.● Refines websites to ensures eye-catching user interfaces (UI) with user-centered design and web responsiveness.● Improves social media traffic through engaging video content, animations, and thumbnails.● Targets designs based on desired audience, scope, and goals.● Delivers quality, cohesive designs ready for deployment with necessary documentation for successful implementation.● Distills complex features and content into simple visual elements.● Follows and applies brand standards for consistency across visual designs.● Applies color theory and composition techniques to construct appealing designs for the target audience.● Enhances existing artwork, as well as photo editing.● Applies animation techniques to create dynamic motion graphics.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Project Management Institute● Achieved business objectives through collaboration and consultation to align on project deliverables and timelines, while managing multiple projects, and implementing new techniques and solutions for workflow and process improvement in development of high-priority courses with interactive multi-media content.● Worked closely with product owners to execute on high quality design and layouts for app content and motion graphic videos.● Leveraged existing brand guidelines to evolve ways in applying those guidelines to designs.● Iterated and problem solved to produce the best possible visual outcomes.● Established templates and guidelines that helped teams execute on certain work faster, while maintaining a high visual/design standard.● Remained up to date on the latest graphic design trends and applied to presentations.● Conceptualized, presented, and created design assets to include icons, graphics, motion graphics, interactive course templates, and interactive games while meeting section 508 accessibility standards, brand standards, and design best practices.● Developed easy to follow brand guides and trained other designers on techniques and best practices to ensure cohesive results and streamlined processes.● Utilized typography, color theory, and layout design best practices to create compelling designs.● Used interactive design elements to create more engaging user experience and template design.● Mentored junior designers and provided design guidance to improve standards of overall team output.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

● Initiated designs through collaboration with Marketing Team to enhance visual communications while maintaining brand identity, aligning with new design trends, and integrating new technologies and techniques● Implemented engaging and cohesive content that led to success across three organizations while delivering projects with speed and accuracy, utilizing layout and design skills through Adobe Creative Cloud, design trends, and best practices● Innovated new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications while integrating feedback, understanding campaign strategy, and driving deliverables consistent with brand standards.● Employed design fundamentals for typography, composition, layout, and color in design work.● Completed final touches for projects such as image sizes and font selection.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

● Advised and collaborated with subject matter experts (SME) across all departments to develop and maintain curricula.● Proposed and revised over hundreds of engaging course graphics, illustrations, and photos for exclusive use within online Learning Management System (LMS) while delivering knowledgeable recommendations on course design, delivery options, and technological use to department chairs.● Enhanced curriculum content for over 80 courses through graphs, charts, infographics, animations, and voice-overs, which resulted in effective and professional data presentation for department chairs and K-12 instructors.● Planned and monitored implementation of technology-based learning programs.

Bachelor'S Degree Of Studio And Digital Art, Graphic Design

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Graphic Design