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New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Creating and implementing a Design System for Aon's employee assessment technology.

Greater New York City Area

Bringing my knowledge and hands-on expertise to brands in the media and start-up communities. I am currently working with Context Productions and lognotes.io to help define their brands and build their web presence utilizing my skills in branding, design and front-end development.

Greater New York City Area

Creative lead for all books and marketing efforts.

New York, NY

Design and front-end web development for the Verifly marketing team. While at Verifly I converted their marketing site from static HTML to their CMS and designed several marketing newsletters and landing pages.

New York, NY

• Provided hands-on leadership and direction for a team of seven designers and developers executing day-to-day design needs for 50 annual trade shows (31 of the top 250 TSNN ranked trade shows) and ten B2B publications..
• Pioneered company app program… Show more Provided hands-on leadership and direction for a team of seven designers and developers executing day-to-day design needs for 50 annual trade shows (31 of the top 250 TSNN.
• Pioneered company app program resulting in development of the first magazine app; expertise leveraged in management of complete portfolio of apps developed for tradeshows, and magazines.
• Built brand portfolio from 30 to >100 apps and websites within five years earning position as the largest tradeshow operator in the US with 6.5 million sq ft of exhibit space, 500,000 attendees, and $137.5M in annual.
• Selected over 30 other challengers in an internal competition to design company branding including logo, typography, palette, style guide and website to be featured during IPO on the NYSE. Show less

New York, NY

• Key contributor in partnership with Executive Creative Director, producing highly functional website design innovations for >35 brands including Billboard, Editor and Publisher, Photo District News, and The Hollywood.
• Identified the need to consolidate system… Show more Key contributor in partnership with Executive Creative Director, producing highly functional website design innovations for >35 brands including Billboard, Editor.
• Identified the need to consolidate system tools to streamline stories and assets to the web for IT, editorial, and management; Participated in selection of digital asset management (DAM), content management system.
• Nominated for President’s Award in 2012. Show less

New York, NY

• Led a team of two in-house web designers in driving improvements to the interface and concept ideas for harpercollins.com and numerous book websites. Facilitated solid working relationships with design agencies and.
• Overhauled consumer newsletter program which more than tripled the open rate.
• Boosted user engagement through design and implementation of the “Look Inside the Book” web app.

New York, NY

Teamed with the Managing Editor and Art Directors to conceptualizeinteractive and informative content to disseminate weekly news stories.Integrated interesting graphics and photo essays in each issue. Selected,hired, and managed freelancers and illustrators for special projects.