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San Francisco Bay Area

We partner with Fortune 100 clients to understand their business needs, explore opportunities, and craft experiences to help them reach their goals.

San Francisco Bay Area

Hired as design support and UI/UX council for the launch of the companies rebranding for their corporate site. This was a short term project.

San Francisco Bay Area

I was lead designer for Chase Auto and key contributor the rebranding launch for Chase Masterbrand to the team. Rebranding efforts included significant updates to the digital products, marketing touch points, and other efforts that were core to the platform's foundational design. that included digital products and marketing touchpoints.UX design highlights: - Developed brand style guidelines and module templates used to create marketing material that mirrored the brand… Show more I was lead designer for Chase Auto and key contributor the rebranding launch for Chase Masterbrand to the team. Rebranding efforts included significant updates to the digital products, marketing touch points, and other efforts that were core to the platform's foundational design. that included digital products and marketing touchpoints.UX design highlights: - Developed brand style guidelines and module templates used to create marketing material that mirrored the brand updates. - Overhaul of Chase Support Center to maximize the online video tutorial library, by introducing a module system that improved user performance.- Collaborated extensively with Digital Consumer Experience to enhance the quality of the public’s ads, opt-in and offer pages. Art direction highlights: - Building material for our third party partners like Aston Martin, Land Rover, and Maserati. - Create playbooks to guide creative teams and external partners to understand core brands. - Responsible for crafting and delivering digital ads, emails and landing pages. - Ensure content is cohesive and on brand with updated visual brand overhaul. - Hosted internal and client-facing creative reviews. - Helped with interviewing, hiring, and mentoring junior designers and new hires.Concept Artist: - Sketch artist to visualize experimental projects to be presented to upper managment.- Storyboard Artist for video team customer journey video creation. - Character artist for to visualize persona used in research and development. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

During this time our team was at the forefront of a complete redesign of Chase.com secure login experience. Footnote, Chase.com secure reaches upwards to 70+ million customers.Chase.com - Key contributor in establishing an updated Chase digital design language that included color, typography, layout, components, iconography and motion design. - Provided layouts and mockups focused on innovation in the payments sector of the project.JPMC.com - Redesigned… Show more During this time our team was at the forefront of a complete redesign of Chase.com secure login experience. Footnote, Chase.com secure reaches upwards to 70+ million customers.Chase.com - Key contributor in establishing an updated Chase digital design language that included color, typography, layout, components, iconography and motion design. - Provided layouts and mockups focused on innovation in the payments sector of the project.JPMC.com - Redesigned JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s corporate website based off of a scalable modular digital magazine layout which included introducing a responsive framework (first for the company) , and unpaged navigation system. Show less

Austin, Texas Area

Created a collection of custom drawn color illustrations used on a KEA Vocabulary asset assignment to help children with learning needs with word recognition.

Redwood Shores, Ca

As a storyboard artist, I worked on SIMS related projects for commercials and promotional reels. This was a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment where post-production, project organization and the creative team ran lean & mean, and was always on time.

Burbank, Ca

This was an amazing team. We continually produced bold and innovative concepts for mobile content that shipped to both international and domestic markets. The content focused largely on animated GIFs and mobile game interfaces created to help support upcoming Disney/Pixar marketing campaigns. We also created episodic animated shorts, each week, using many of the characters found in the Disney family.

While at Wild Brain I managed their 2D Ink & Paint / Camera division that produced the final renders for a large collection of TV series, commercials and feature films including: Anita Bomba, Nike, KFC, Cartoon Network & Coca-Cola.

• Created original content and animated characters for digital animated children’s books.• Supplied production strategies and developed innovative painting techniques • Clients included Learning Company, Broderbund; with titles such as Sheila Rae the Brave, Bernstein Bears and Bears At Work.

Certificate, Web Design And Development

Bachelors Of Fine Arts, Illustration/Painting

Certificate Of Illustration, Illustration Program