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San Diego, CA, US

Vista, California, United States

• NewRocket builds software solutions for businesses. Hired to a division of NewRocket focused on building world-class employee-facing portals for Fortune 500 clients, academic institutions, and government agencies.
• Contributed to development of >20 portal projects using JavaScript/ES5/ES6+, Node.js, AngularJS, HTML, and SASS, with workloads typically ranging from 2-4 concurrent projects.
• Served as lead developer for six portal development efforts with responsibility for managing small development teams to ensure delivery on tight deadlines. Oversee sprints, design handoff, implementation, user testing.
• Build APIs for NewRocket’s mobile products and contribute to development of multiple product features, enhancements, and refactoring efforts.
• Collaborate with design teams to ensure requirements are within budget and feasibility, and translate Figma designs to pixel-perfect implementation.
• Consult clients on implementing best practices for portals.

United States

• Lead total redesigns of websites, implement using modern tools and platforms including HTML, CSS, Javascript, Wordpress, and SEO; improve user experience and site stability, and introduce enhanced functionality related.
• Contribute to art direction and marketing strategy for large regional fine art gallery; lead digital and print design, work directly with leadership on marketing development, and oversee improvements to outreach and.
• Create original artwork and designs, develop branding, marketing collateral, digital elements, promotional material, web content, and direct mailers, and work with stakeholders to ensure alignment with style.
• Manage social analytics including reposts, comments, click through rates, and leads to optimize effort and spend throughout marketing campaign lifecycle; updated campaigns according to social media analytics to improve.
• Partner with independent visual artists and musicians to provide graphic design and promotion services; develop collateral including websites, social media marketing and promotions, wordmarks, posters, business cards.

San Diego, California, United States

- UI/UX Prototyping, Flow and Design using Figma- Working with Stakeholders and Development teams in an Agile environment- Brand Development, Design of Lead Generation Assets

La Jolla, California

• Manage operations for design, engineering, and installation of sets, props, and set dressing for various large-scale productions; scenic elements have been featured in hundreds of critically acclaimed Broadway plays.
• Partner with teams of Designers, Contractors, Technicians, Installers, and Project Managers, ensure total understanding of expectations, blueprints, and scale models, and contribute to project meetings to plan, update.
• Develop and deliver training to new production personnel, focus on artistic techniques, proper tool usage, job safety procedures, and related government regulations; able to develop impactful personnel that improved.

Art History & Museum Studies

Associates Of Fine Arts, Fine Art

Front-End Development, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia And Information Resources Design