Dr. Christopher Gardner Email & Phone Number

Iowa, United States

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Iowa, United States

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Las Vegas Nv

Developed a hybrid-learning computer lab as part of the Wesleyan School in Kamakwie, Sierra Leone. The goal was to encourage autonomous learning and allow children from different parts of the world to learn from each other.

Las Vegas, Nv

Recruited to promote diversity and inclusion through establishing engaging lesson plans used for designing and initiating curriculum for students. • Demonstrated efficiency in motivating students to explore available possibilities while preparing them for both personal and professional success by integrating compelling assignments.• Excelled in establishing an innovative and inspiring curriculum that included guest speakers and subject matter experts.

Las Vegas, Nv

Employed the use of verbal and written lectures, physical demonstrations, and PowerPoint for instructing classes.• Leverage expertise in serving as a voice of the students while upholding university academic integrity standards simultaneously• Charged with promoting the success of the organization regarded as an in-house design studio for the institute.• Collaborated across divisions to ensure consistent implementation of process and policy related to student discipline, instructional support, academic programming, and co-curricular activities.

Las Vegas, Nv

Successfully managed and executed the project focused on designing and launching the www.lvsportsocial.com website from concept to completion.• Played an instrumental role in assisting Ivsport Social win a $100k grant.• Provided optimal oversight for photo and video shoots, copywriters, developers, as well as collected outside resources when needed.• Fueled business development opportunities, managed clients, and served as a corporate representative.• Drove efforts to maximize awareness, conversion, and branding through coordinating a world-class creative team to establish compelling creative and marketing campaigns.

Las Vegas, Nv

Designated to serve as Art Director for Web Development and Print Collateral while managing the Creative Department and preparing accurate reports to the COO while developing the www.excelsiormedia.com website.• Leveraged expertise in designing the look and feel while coordinating the composition, development, and deployment processes. • Boosted daily operational productivity and delivered projects within timeframes and scope through mentoring, coaching, and training employees on standard procedures and best practices. Offered exceptional support in business acquisition and account management functions.• Fostered trusting working relationships with UI and UX designers with a focus on driving the corporate, creative recommendations to inform, present and meet client needs.

Las Vegas, Nv

Acted as webmaster for the OTS department, an extension of the College of Southern Nevada high school recruitment branch. Cultivated and maintained solid relationships with financial experts, marketing executives, and senior management to create design materials such as websites, catalogs, presentations, and other marketing material for a student loan consolidation company.• Enabled providers to maintain the branded look and feel while generating template systems for the company’s vendors to ensure optimal consistency across FinanSure websites.• Acknowledged for expertise in establishing and developing the www.csn.edu/cte website.• Propelled innovation in executing technical projects through offering exceptional consultation services, website design as well as logo and flyer design. Influenced customer satisfaction score by proposing and implementing new site content architecture and navigation scheme for clients’ website redesign.

Jersey City Nj

Lead on Accoona Corp. search sites that included accoona.com, accoona.cn, and accoona.eu. Senior interactive designer/art director for re-banding and launch of seven ecommerce sites. Art directed and envisioned new look for shopping comparison site buyersedge.com.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area

Designed, developed, and art directed a bimonthly magazine called Brunswick Alive, the South Carolina Hall of fame website and kiosk, the Mark McBride for US Senate Campaign, and multiple ecommerce and entertainment websites. Art directed ebooks for Keller Williams; created advertisements as well as collateral, merchandising, fashion, political, sports, health related print material for clients that included John Deer, NASCAR, ESPN, and Cable Vision.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area

Taught graphic art classes to undergrads and offered internship opportunities at Waccamaw Media to graphic design students that turned into career opportunities.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Area

Created award winning designs for the re-envisioning of the lhwh.com, mcleodhealth.org, barefootresortvacations.com website designs; art directed various innovative print/digital advertisements for tourist industry promotional collateral.

Brooklyn, Ny

Product owner and lead on outdoor signage accounts, gastronomy advertising needs, entertainment websites, and book cover designs.

Manhattan Ny

Designed print based collateral material, logos, and worked on government websites such as cancer.gov, acor.net, and usability.gov.

Manhattan Ny

Daily duties included maintaining multiple large scale websites on a daily basis. Other duties included creating design/development for Royalty Pharma, Credit Suisse, One Main, B&H Photo Video, HealthScout, Women's Network, and Esquire.

Manhattan Ny

Created spread layouts for in-house magazine, designed CD labels/booklets/cases as well as logos for various artists.

Brooklyn, Ny

Designed subway maps for Morgan Chase, built Powerpoint presentations, developed website re-designs for various clients, as well as the first Lugh Studio website.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Created storyboards, updated stationary, designed in-house advertisements and participated on photoshoots.

Masters - School Of Graphic Design, Communication Design / Computer Graphics (Ms)

Doctorate - Graduate School Of Business And Management, Doctor Of Education In Organizational Leadership (Ed.D.)

Bachelor - School Of Mass Communication, Advertising Design (Ba)