- Responsible for managing and partnering across disciplines within Targus and external suppliers to ensure design assets are delivered with quality, value, and on-time.- Works in collaboration with Global Product Managers, Product Marketing team and the other design leaders to generate creative design proposals.- Drives research activities and effectively translates customer needs into actionable design requirements.- Develop packaging construction that will house the products in the retail environment.- Review samples from the production team in Asia and external print vendors to ensure quality control and make judgment calls to print quality when at on-site press checks.- Run team meetings with the overseas production team to go over deadlines, upcoming projects, and schedules.

Small freelance firm focusing on design, layout, and typography. Sourcing and creating art for art for print production, apparel and publication.DT Design provides:Brand development and advertising design. Developed brand strategy and production.A creative medium for apparel, dealing with small and large vendors.Bringing print advertising and product concepts from start to finish.

- Responsible for creating, checking and preparing all files for consistency and conformity to the brand identities before going to clients or vendors.- Supported the creative team by designing materials based on brand and style guides.- Worked with copywriters to align visual design with the copy.- Provided prepress expertise to construction and development of collateral material.- Coordinated projects with product managers and designers using the Wrike workflow system.- Executed marketing campaigns for clients from concept to production.

- Provide mentorship and technical support to the graphic design team of 6 designers.- Personally manage and design key projects and artwork for marketing, including, but not limited to: displays, planograms, and point of sale programs.- Work daily with the Design Project Coordinator to ensure the designers are on track for all deadlines.- Coordinate and approve artwork provided by the overseas design team of 6 production artist.- Perform quality control checks on first-ship samples and production packaging artwork and by creating templates for all production design deliverables.- Develop workflow and standard operating procedures to increase efficiency.- Recruit, hire, and provide training to help on-board new graphic designers and develop each designer's skill set.- Manage the in-house photographer and digital archivist to keep the product library database to ensure all necessary product sheets and product photos are up to date.- Strategize workflow with the reprographics team and ensure in-house packaging samples are to specifications as well as preparations for customer meetings.- Maintain the highest level of design and quality standards while pushing the team to do the same in a positive and collaborative team environment.

- Develop packaging for a wide array of products such as home goods, toys, and electronics.- Develop style guides for in-house brands as well as maintaining brand identity for current product divisions.- Work with brand managers in developing artwork for products from concept to production.- Create in-store layouts for sell though through mediums such as planograms, end caps, and pallets.- Assist in developing skill-sets for fellow team members.- Troubleshoot and solve technical issues with packaging, printing process, Adobe based software, and hardware.

- Managed email blasts and online promotional campaigns and improved click through rates by using MailChimp.com analytics.- Collaborated with the marketing coordinator to create an online presence through social media outlets, such as Facebook and MySpace.- Managed Amazon Vendor Central with CMS uploads to their image database and supported the sales force with presentation requests and access to the product archives.- Prepared and archived image libraries by inserting metadata to be optimized with SEO web services. - Created collateral material for marketing presentations, mailers, promotions, graphic displays shop in shop stores, tradeshows and sales meetings.- Designed and laid out quarterly catalogs, including image retouching, placement, and thumbnails.- Performed quality control checks on artwork and packaging with overseas vendors.- Developed new packaging concepts to optimize product placement and to lower production costs.- Designed and maintain costume-packaging standards for mainstream distributors such as Spencer’s and Party City.

• Coordinate with the creative director in designing new concepts for product packaging, display presentations and in-store merchandising.• Design catalogs, brand guides, brochures, sell sheets and other marketing collateral for presentation.• Create design layouts, graphic ideation, and shape design for handbags for Kitson.• Design new concepts for jewelry and accessories for Disney Couture, Warner Brothers, Playboy, Spencers, Kitson and in-house private labels.

• Collaborated with product managers in designing new products and product lines for vendors such as Target, Office Depot, and Linens and Things.• Created and manipulated patterns for both the Magic Cover and Contact Brand product lines.• Lead artwork developer for new stationary product lines, includes such licensing vendors as Garfield and American Chopper, to produce fun and youthful merchandising.• Designed and produced product packaging, ranging from labels to P.O.P. display headers and clamshells.• Performed pre-flight checks and troubleshooting for errors of all design files to be expedited to press.• Designed apparel graphics using style guides and licenses from companies such as King Features, Disney and Warner Brothers.• Handled color separations for screen-printing using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.• Created illustrations for stationary, patent designs, and various projects, using style guides as well as taking creative freedom within project guidelines.

- Created graphics and logos for various clients for projects ranging from advertisements, posters and business cards.- Worked in digital editing of images and typesetting for various companies while maintaining efficient deadlines for pre-press and printing.- Experienced in offset printing, match printing and film development for pre-press printing for large-scale projects.

- Assisted the professor with lectures and assignments done in the digital lab including demonstrations and projects.- Taught digital arts programs, such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to students with class sizes averaging 25 students.- Interacted with students in discussions and class projects as well as meetings held during office hours.