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Woodinville, Washington, United States

Lead a team of product designers and illustrators in the creation, development and execution of multiple diverse projects ranging from children’s board games, adult party and strategy games. Work as a liaison between the design team, Creative Director, Director of Production and producers to establish a cohesive and efficient work flow.• Manage the design team; responsible for establishing annual goals, mentoring, setting priorities and problem solving. Supervise department workload, assign projects and lead weekly scrum meetings.• Art direct and design for licensed and unlicensed products, proposals and pitch boards. Conceptualize and create on-trend design directions based on research, user experience and focus group testing. • Created and implemented an effective annual review process to be used company wide.• Optimize production procedures by identifying specific milestone dates keeping projects within scheduled timelines. Develop and manage the preproduction process providing clients with error-free print production files.• Manage complex projects simultaneously under tight deadlines while maintaining the integrity and quality of each project. • Collaborate with Producers on new concepts, design directions, game mechanics and prototypes for user testing.• Establish project budgets and negotiate contracts with outside vendors.

Bellevue, Wa

Art directed a team of designers, interns and external contractors. Developed packaging, science and art educational books, instruction manuals, brand touch points and online marketing material for the SmartLab product line. • Collaborated with the Executive team on company-wide strategies and initiatives including new product ideas and custom packaging for mass market accounts. • Worked with the Creative Manager to develop an efficient approval process for the product, package and content development. Identified specific milestone dates for product strategy meetings, internal design reviews and content creation. • Art directed photo shoots for lifestyle and product images for packaging, catalogs, marketing material, instruction manuals and book interiors.• Supported the sales group with proposals, catalog design, trade show collateral, signage and marketing material.• Art directed and designed proposals for becker&mayer! including the “Uncover” series for Silver Dolphin bringing together a new cohesive design concept.

Bellevue, Wa

Art direction and design for the science and art product lines, conceptualizing, creating and maintaining the SmartLab brand for the packaging, books and instruction manuals.• Designed and implemented the new brand look for the SmartLab product line, enhancing overall sales and product placement.• Managed and produced the website redesign, introducing an e-commerce function, cross-channel brand consistency and an interactive online user experience.

Bellevue, Wa

Design lead and preproduction support for a diverse line of publications for the Juvenile book division as well as SmartLab Toys.• Art direction and design for Disney’s Hannah Montana interactive Tour Book which included 10 interactive features and custom printing techniques producing over 500K print copies.• Design and development for specialized educational book plus toy products for Scholastic Book Fair. • Assisted in the brand and design direction for Silver Dolphin’s book series: the Field Guides• Worked on numerous creative teams simultaneously for a variety of clients and target markets

Mountlake Terrace, Wa

Freelance designer specializing in logo design, branding, print design and unique conceptual proposals.

Seattle, Wa

Collaborated with the creative team on multiple projects for Pyramid Breweries and Thomas Kemper Soda.

Seattle, Wa

Experimental and unconventional design for Bumbershoot 1997, Sims Snowboards and various local clients.

Seattle, Wa

Summer internship through the AIGA Trapeze Award. Assisted the production coordinator and designers with a variety of projects.

Uss Sacramento (Aoe-1)

Managed a tech control team in high-stress operations on a fast combat supply ship during the First and Second Persian Gulf Wars. Responsible for top-secret messages, top-secret crypto materials, as well as ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication.