Greg Hester Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

• Creating graphics and page designs for digital and print content on daily deadlines, often within minutes of breaking news, using the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Designing daily content by planning, wireframing, iterating and rapid prototyping into high-fidelity polish.
• Collaborating and problem solving design ideas with team, using Slack.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Ideated and created social media graphics, hero illustrations, infographics, charts, logos and page designs, helping website surpass 100 million unique visitors.
• Designed daily content by planning, sketching, wireframing, iterating and rapid prototyping into high-fidelity polish.
• Adapted graphics in appropriate aspect ratios for sharing on Twitter, Instagram Stories, Facebook, video and more.
• Photo edited digital content, game photography, collages in Adobe Photoshop, including photo retouching.
• Collaborated with team for best storytelling, problem solving and visual design for engagement and SEO.
• Copy edited concise graphic information in AP style.

• Designed graphics and maps for studies & illustrated nature displays for conservation areas.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Created hero illustrations, infographics and layouts for deadline sports content and promotional events for section fronts and stories, helping Yahoo! lead the U.S. general news category with 81.2 million unique.
• Designed marketing collateral, visual identity banners, advertising graphics deliverables and production artwork for new blogs and website features, using the Adobe Creative Suite, including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe.
• Managed content on section fronts and photoedited featured images on website, maintaining fresh content throughout nightly shifts, consistently beating ESPN’s coverage.
• Copy edited headlines, deck heads, stories and captions in AP style.
• Helped team beat the competition by preparing graphic templates, ready to post when sports records were broken and unexpected events happened.
• Graphics lead on Pulitzer entry investigation into college athletics corruption, involving hundreds of text, video and audio files and numerous pages of graphics and hero illustrations.

Orange County, California Area

• Designed daily sports covers and inside pages, collaborated with editors, sketched initial designs, wireframed, then adapted throughout the night as events unfolded.
• Created graphics for news, business and features before moving full-time to sports.
• Hired illustrators and worked with artists on pairing content with artwork.
• Updated gameday sports infographics, charting game progression and illustrating key plays for the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL and more, using Adobe Illustrator.
• Boosted advertising revenue by organizing and designing special editorial and advertising sections for major events, including the Olympics, World Series, Masters, Rose Bowl, NBA Finals and Super Bowl.
• Utilized Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, Excel, Outlook in managing multiple projects.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Designed infographics, maps, charts for breaking news, features and sports sections.
• Created daily sports cover page designs.
• Planned and designed layouts for many special sections including Olympics, NCAA tournaments, PGA, NBA Finals and Super Bowl.