Michael Gary Email & Phone Number

Plantation, Florida, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

• Creating user-centered, end-to-end solutions for Meta Business Suite, particularly focused on making the platform more accessible for mid-sophisticated users
• Designing flows and experiences that simplify and distill down complex actions into usable flows and interfaces
• Resolving ambiguity and driving clarity of plan, strategy and vision on key company priorities with globally distributed product managers, engineers, researchers, content strategists and data scientists
• Contributing to high-level strategic decisions with the product and executive teams
• Owning the end-to-end design across multiple features and projects, working collaborativelywith cross-functional partners from concept through completion and future iterations
• Roadmapping, sizing and sequencing work streams and projects to ensure alignment withstakeholders on deliverables and timelines

Redmond, Washington, US

• Redefined the navigation and search experience for Nintendo.com with a user-centered approach, modernizing the site experience to reduce user friction while meeting stakeholder and business needs
• Created and refined new global navigation and search interaction models, from initial wireframes to finished UI, building a more intuitive and relevant user experience with the flexibility to address changing business.
• Marketing design lead for high business priority products and campaigns including Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary and Holiday Gift Guide, ensuring visual cohesion, brand consistency.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders and external agencies on large scale microsite experiences, from brainstorming to final QA, ensuring sites were user-centered and on brand
• Produced a wide range of marcom creative including microsites, product pages, on-device news and store page assets, multi-language display ad suites, social assets and emails
• Evangelized the power of user testing, prototyping, and data to help validate and inform design directions

Seattle, WA, US

• Redefined the storefront experience for Travelocity, Orbitz and Wotif, introducing brand distinction and differentiation while improving the overall user experience
• Designed and defined progressive web app product experiences throughout the funnel, including storefronts and loyalty products, from initial wireframes to finished UI
• Created a new search wizard design and interaction model that was scalable across brands
• Redesigned the global navigational experience across brands, reducing complexity and improving relevancy for users
• Created a modular framework to enable the incorporation of brand content, creating distinction at scale
• Mentored and developed junior creatives and new team members, with a focus on empowerment toeventually take on greater ownership of projects and/or problem spaces

• Led innovative marketing design initiatives that met KPI’s and scaled globally
• Concepted, tested, and formalized design methodologies for global marketing communications that were designed to continuously evolve while reducing inefficiencies
• Collaborated with developers, designers, and stakeholders across teams globally to produce scalable design solutions that improved user experience, performance, workflows and turnaround time without sacrificing.
• Created a new design system and toolkit for the global email program
• Brainstormed and rapidly executed new creative concepts and directions against quickly evolving, key marketing initiatives
• Provided thought leadership on the direction and growth of the global creative studio team, ensuring alignment on strategic priorities and a focus on innovation

Seattle, WA, US

• Concepted and designed global marketing and event-triggered emails, using responsive design to create scalable templates and modules that ensured visual consistency across key markets and LOBs
• Led the design of the responsive Global Email UI Toolkit, establishing the core visual style for all emails globally
• Strengthened the email-to-site experience by developing new visual content for all emails, ensuring brand consistency while enhancing the customer experience
• Concepted design innovations, keeping the email program modern and built for the future
• Provided global email design support, sharing best practices and making design recommendations for all regions
• Designed various digital and print creative, including banner ads, business cards and original illustrations

Shanghai, CN

• Concepted and designed the overall visual identity of communication materials
• Concepted and led the design of the university’s viewing book
• Designed collateral including business card, postcards, bookmark, and more

• Clients: Dos Equis, Amstel, Newcastle
• Collaborated on the creation of promotional campaigns, from concepting and designing core visuals to approving final mechanicalized art for release
• Created POP signage, including mass displays, price cards, shelf talkers, and display enhancers
• Designed presentation and sales tools, including PowerPoints and sell sheets
• Designed adhoc creative including emails, event signage, and labels

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

• Clients: Donna Karan, David Yurman, Alexander Wang
• Collaborated on the design of banner ads and emails
• Completed image retouching on product photography

New York, NY, US

• Clients: American Express OPEN, NYU Shanghai, Scholastic, New York Jets, NFL On Location, Wild Turkey Bourbon, Marks Paneth & Shron
• Designed and produced emails, websites, online banner ads, and direct mail pieces
• Concepted and designed logos, packaging, and collateral
• Concepted, wrote, and storyboarded TV spots
• Contributed ideas during brainstorming sessions, participated in client meetings, and assembled presentations for current and prospective clients

Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

• Clients: Donna Karen, David Yurman, Dunhill, Calvin Klein Jeans, Marc Jacobs, Juicy Couture, Tory Burch, Vichy, Nowness, La Perla, and Americana Manhasset
• Designed promotional emails
• Completed image retouching on product photography
• Collaborated with the creative team on site redesigns and the design of an in-store touchscreen display
• Concepted ideas for various client pitches

New York, NY, US

• Clients: Major League Baseball, Weight Watchers, Kohl’s, Mastercard, Women’s Professional Soccer
• Created content and concepts for iPhone apps and ambient & digital ad campaigns
• Collaborated on the design of web banners and Facebook icons & forms
• Lead a team that created an advertising campaign for a new, internally generated web site
• Assisted in designing a presentation for a new business prospect
• Won an internal poster design contest

• Designed and produced wallpapers and editorial story graphics for Marvel.com
• Collaborated on interface design, image selection, and graphic production
• Prepared over 500 comic book covers for use in online and print catalogs
• Prepared and integrated images within a content management system