Craig Hurt Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Originally hired as temporary support for marketing staff on medical leave. Contract extended as a result of the quality of work and my ability to assimilate within the corporate culture. Support over 50 national offices with marketing and graphic design services. Brought on board full time in March 2015.• Produce various promotional brochures, email blasts, magazine ads, and web graphics• Schedule out-of-state photography projects• Branding of current marketing tools and collateral pieces• Photography retouching and updating assets corporate website• Creating engaging tract videos using Adobe Premier and Adobe Rush• Managing and implementing our email marketing campaigns for large tract land sales2018-PresentAmerican Forest Management Entertainment Committee VolunteerPart of the team that organizes social activities for the ±50 employee Charlotte office. Monthly breakfasts, holiday gatherings, corporate softball team, quarterly birthday gatherings and after work social activities.

Matthews, Nc

Marketing consumer products for trade shows, creating web assets and developing packaging.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Part-time instructor, teaching classes in Graphic Arts Imaging and Image Manipulation. In-depth review of the workings of Digital Photography and Photoshop.

Waxhaw, Nc

Developed and maintained my own business. Have developed projects for packaging, logo design, trade show/collateral materials and various print production services. Worked with iFi Systems to develop imagery for their corporate web site as well as provided high resolution vector illustrations for use on large format printing pieces.

Ft. Mill, Sc

Senior Graphic Design and Management professional. Highly creative leader with top-flight interpersonal and communication skills. Proven ability to lead a dynamic creative team. Managed the creative team that supported 3 corporate divisions.• Implemented & directed creative development production process from concept to production, including production schedules, job trafficking, budgeting, and approval processes.• Sr Designer and served as liaison between sales/clients and production staff.• Sourced and directed outside vendors for translations of Spanish, French and Korean creative projects.• Proactively developed and effectively manage timelines.• Created annual budgets including personnel, capital expenditures, project assumptions and supply inventory.• Worked cross-functionally and met regularly with all levels of the organization including ownership.• Led and mentored creative staff through oversight and one-on-one critique of their work.• Experience working across a variety of mediums, including traditional and digital.• Ability to take on a variety of roles including manager, CSR, designer and QA.• Active participant in corporate motivational programs as speaker, coach and team lead.• Developed production processes and tracked usage for silkscreen production department.• Managed and implemented monthly web banner creation along with product imagery for online catalog.• Created and expedited purchase orders for outside vendors.• Led and initiated weekly production meetings.

Charlotte, Nc

Ran the day-to-day operations of one of Charlotte, NC's first Service Bureaus. Providing RC paper and film output from digital files along with many other pre-press services. Also, managed the in-house design center for the media manufacturing division. Was originally hired as graphic designer/illustrator and was promoted from within.

Charlotte, Nc

Designed audio/video cassette packaging. Was also lead illustrator both traditional and digital for catalog work. Met with clients and senior management to set production schedules and provide updates on production. Developed strong production skills within the 300,000-500,000 weekly cassette production schedule. Helped develop and implement corporate design QA procedures.

Bachelor'S Degree, Creative Arts

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