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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Experienced communication designer successful at translating ideas and information through a variety of print and digital media focusing on strategic internal communications, cultural transformation, change management, and client services.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Hands-on designer, problem solver and strategic consultant driving the creative process for Fortune 200 clients. Act as the primary liaison between the ROI client and design team to accurately interpret the project.
• Conceptualize creative and technical deliverables to accomplish internal communication plan initiatives.
• High attention to content layout and quality standards to meet design guidelines for international brands while continuing to identify ways to communicate with multi-cultural employees.
• Evolved into project manager role working along side the account manager to deliver communication services over a one-year project timeline for a major automobile manufacturer.

Pleasanton, CA

• Member of a full service marketing team responsible for the photography and creative input for a 400-page construction products catalog.
• Integral member of the creative services team who championed the product catalog initiative, a driver of consistent online sales.
• Overcame complex challenge to incorporate the company’s brand image into construction product catalog.

San Francisco, CA

Member of a creative team working with a copywriter and art director to design consumer-facing product packaging.Solved complex packaging challenges to meet clients’ merchandising needs through structural innovation.Collaborated with the Creative Director to develop graphic communications that enhanced product sales and reinforced the clients’ brand image.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Key executive hired to start a creative studio and build a cohesive brand. Served as a creative design leader with a $500M budget, directing a team of five creative professionals.
• Spearheaded the design, content, and production of quarterly catalogs that were instrumental in establishing the company’s competitive differences during international conferences.
• Consistently met 60-day catalog production schedule; photographed 500 products; collaborated with a technical writer to design, print, and ship product catalogs to Europe, meeting conference deadlines.

Dallas, Texas

Start-up design firm provides creative services to advertising, business consulting, transportation, and non-profit organizations. Drove business development initiative to identify companies’ creative challenges and offer solutions that addressed brand concepts across a broad array of print and web media.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Collaborated cross-functionally with sales and marketing executives to lead the creative strategy for print advertising, web design, external and internal communications, presentations, and trade shows.
• Provided design services to high-profile accounts, including Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and several large public agencies.Led planning meetings with key executives to set creative strategies that met company.
• Managed two creative professionals whose expertise included proposal writing and project administration to ensure that delivery timeframes for client projects were met and exceeded.