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Tacoma, Washington, Us

Brand, product and visual design for Tacoma-based social platform which helps people help loved ones through the use of Care Calendar, Wishlist, Posts & Updates, and Connected Crowdfunding.Create, document, and maintain brand guides and design system components and styles, for both product and marketing design.Create, run and improve processes to best effectively communicate UI/UX handoffs, through wireframes, hi-fi comps, and interactive prototypes.Collaborate and coordinate with developers around the globe on all aspects of product design, feature requirements, and technical specification.Creative Director for marketing creative, with a support staff of writers, designers, and illustrators both in-house and outsourced.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Design and Direction for the Wolfe family of gifting-for-good products.

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Providing overall creative and UX design and direction as well as brand voice for start-ups and businesses near and far. Clients range from giants like Facebook, Inc. and Lionsgate Entertainment, to small firms and start-ups like Give InKind, 17hats and AktaryTech.

Brand Identity, Marketing Design and Product UI/UX for financial tools developer in the Crypto market.

San Francisco, Los Angeles , Ca, Us

Creative Direction and design for both product (UX) and marketing (Visual) for Lean Street Company's client roster including 17hats and OmniPlatform.• Manage, mentor and collaborate with a distributed team of designers and front-end developers across multiple time zones, using comm & PM tools like Slack, Jira, Trello, Notion, etc.• Implement and customize processes, workflows and design systems on a per-client basis.• Hands-on brand design, wire-framing and prototyping to set direction.• All internal design for corporate identity, pitch decks, trade show displays, social channels, etc.

Seattle, Washington, Us

iOS & Android app design along with brand new HubSpot website with a branding expansion to suit digital products needs for Female-forward co-working space and community that's about to take over the world.Oh, also helping on marketing design and co-working space design/graphics because, well, I can.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Content design and UI/UX for Fire Tablet marketing feed. Never again.

Product marketing design and branding, ranging from event signage to full branding and guidelines for major product launches.On-platform interactive advertising concept and design.Design support for all product marketing teams across all Facebook brands (Facebook, Instagram, Oculus, etc.)

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Conceptualized, designed, and directed global digital, interactive, social, and experiential advertising campaigns.• Led worldwide online campaigns across all Apple products and services, including iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, iTunes, App Store, iBooks, and Apple Music.• Managed both product launch and sustaining phases, ensuring creative consistency and maximizing global engagement.• Collaborated cross-functionally with internal teams and external agencies to align marketing strategies with brand vision.

Beverly Hills, Ca., Us

Design lead for the Worldwide Digital Media group. Included site design/UX for MGM.com, MGM.Stargate.com, MGMHD.com, AmericanGladiators.com, this.tv among others. Also included all deliverables for digital distribution channels. Partnered with Microsoft, Google, Apple and others on groundbreaking tech including iTunes movies, SilverLight PhotoSynth, GoogleTV and more.Worked with all other studio departments to merchandise and promote MGM & UA's 4100 title film library, digitally — past, present and future.

Simi Valley, California, Us

Responsible for branding and marketing materials, photography, package design and trade show displays. Also included some product UI design and direction.

Lead designer for all web, marketing and package design for percussion instruments manufacturer in New Rochelle, NY.Also included industrial design of percussion instruments and accessories, and some artist relations duties.

Quickly rose through the ranks from intern to Designer to AD for this boutique full-service agency, focused on the travel and hospitality industry.Worked in print (including paste-up... with like actual glue) and early web.