Design, production and installation of environmental and informational museum graphics including permanent and temporary exhibitions, workspaces and wayfinding.

Customer-focused, collaborative environmental and graphic design, exhibition design, project coordination and management

Created engaging and accessible workplace environmental graphic design for T-Mobile headquarters, call centers and offices. Coordinated with nationwide teams and vendors to deliver visual inspiration to our work spaces.

Inspire Fire® is the leading brand consultancy to small and mid-sized businesses. Specializing in maximizing the ROI of customer connection, we play at the intersection of customer experience and emotional connection in consumer brands in packaged goods, lifestyle products, and both professional and personal service brands. Danielle works with the Inspire Fire team and our clients to bring powerful branding and design solutions to life.

Graphic design from concept to production for museums, cultural centers, academic institutions and heritage sites. Coordinated projects and facilitated productive communication between internal staff, contract staff, clients, museum affiliates, vendors and fabrication companies to meet all project deliverable dates. Notable contributions include interpretative graphic system development and design for the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center.

Team coordinator for all stages of discovery, development, evaluation, design, and installation of exhibits for national and international children’s museums. Facilitated productive client, fabricator and vendor relations via online project management system, phone calls and face-to-face interactions. Assisted in generating project time line to track progress and ensure on-time and on-budget milestone delivery.A few of my most valuable contributions to our firm: developing a cohesive file naming and management protocol for archiving exhibit graphics; designing streamlined graphic schedules; migrating all inter-office documents to Google Drive for ease of archiving, editing and collaboration; and implementing best practices within our online project management portal for both our design team and our clients.

Assisted the Exhibits Coordinator, Exhibits Technician and Graphic Artist in developing conceptual ideas for upcoming exhibits. Designed and produced graphical panels and object labels, researched content, developed evaluation, edited video/audio, procured objects and images per script specification to abide by copyright and loan requirements, installed/deinstalled exhibits, communicated with curators and collections managers on various projects, handled traveling exhibit logistics and designed and built brass mounts and case furniture.

Developed and built scale models, researched content for exhibit development and design, designed product packaging for exhibit elements, and handled collection items and entomological specimens. Additionally I wrote and submitted an application to Event Design Awards for “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration” which resulted in a Gold Medal Award to AMNH's exhibition department.

Streamlined daily operations of Academic Technology Department by prioritizing tasks and assigning projects to five Academic Technology team members, and collaborated with the department manager on long-term planning, establishing best practices and implementation strategies of university-wide technology use.

Developed and created all aspects of design and marketing for a top producing Realtor. One of my favorite tasks was minor staging and photographing listings for marketing purposes as I was able to get to know the homeowners and showcase their pride of ownership.

Owner/operator of small art gallery featuring work of local and national emerging artists and artisans. Along with day-to-day duties, I developed the branding and graphic identity, gallery design, developed and designed all advertising, and planned and executed special events.

Team lead for eLearning module design and development for a variety of corporations including Adobe, CNA Insurance and Global Crossing.

All in-house graphic design and marketing for nationally acclaimed real estate education company including: large scale special events graphics, product catalogs, product packaging design, brochures, website, forms, flyers, letterhead package and brand refinement

Art Department Intern for "Wicked" starring Julia Stiles. I painted a large set backdrop, set treatments, and a portrait of leading lady, Chelsea Field.