Retail First is a full-service advertising and marketing company specializing in consumer marketing, packaging, fixturing and branding within the retail environment.

• Redesign and develop direct mail pieces to be visually compelling with personalized data and interactive gimmicks• Create and design concepts for retail circular pages and collateral material• Troubleshoot complex client accounts that vary in-depth with multiple parts to create finished multi component compositions• Partner directly with sales teams for project creation, layout design, prototypes, and print production templates to ensure that projects are completed within scheduled target dates and budgets• Collaborate with creative directors, senior management, production teams, and end-clients to identify project needs to support the brands objective• Delegate responsibilities and assign tasks for client accounts to estimating team and to creative design team• Key customers include: Discover Card Financial, DICK'S, Capital One, Emmis Publishing, PubWorX, Hearst Communications, Limited Brands, Victoria's Secret, Tween Brands, Hallmark, GNC, Procter & Gamble, Direct TV, ShopRite, Citi GroupSKILLS: Adobe CC 6 (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Dream Weaver, Quark, Direct Mail, Variable Data Printing, Packaging Design, Company Branding, Brochures, Prepress, Printing, Sales Collateral

Designed Graphics material for electronics packaging, such as computer tower boxes, Laptop boxes, GPS, TV's and other small electronics.Worked closely with plant in China that produced packaging.Designed and maintained website for Canadian Line of computers.Designed marketing material for in house use and sales.