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Oversee the art department by hiring, training, assigning, scheduling, and mentoring Graphic Design staff; Ensure team adheres to current processes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement; Collaborate with Product Development and CE teams in aligning team priorities with business objectives to deliver high-quality work on time and on budget; Develop presentation approaches, styles, and techniques for the team to implement; Aligning team priorities with business objectives to deliver high quality work on time and on budget; Analyze market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape; Work with all members of the Creative Services team to establish a unified brand understanding and voice for the company; Conceptualize campaign vision, harnessing original graphics, copy, content websites, social media, and other marketing materials.

Melbourne, Florida Area

Produce digital creative elements using design principles, aesthetics and color theory to uphold the brand in a way that is engaging, relevant, timely, and appropriate for the intended audience; Work with the creative/marketing teams to develop presentations and creative elements that tell compelling, concise, and well-organized stories; Communicate priorities and status of projects and incorporate feedback from teams and key stakeholders; Stay up-to-date on latest developments in software, digital marketing platforms and current design trends; Ensure consistency and accuracy of all designs and content, and verify compliance with branding standards, copyright, legal, and regulatory specifications.

Brand development; Practice clear and direct communication with clients in order to generate strategies for how to best represent their brand; Identify and reach the client's target audience; Design and organize a project plan/creative brief; Manage projects with regard to time/budget limitations, and work with vendors for production; Anticipate and address any potential road-bumps; Implement organization’s branding while working independently or with teams.Clients Include:James Madison UniversityAfrikana Independent Film FestivalTom Wyman DesignsThe Episcopal Diocese of VirginiaTEDxRVATEDxRVASalonsTEDxRVAWomenAgilQuest WMSGI Nutritional Support Programs, LLCMode Comfort & Air QualityHarrisonburg City Public SchoolsWinner's Circle Enterprisesand more...

Richmond, Virginia Area

Oversee design and creative direction all print and digital branded collateral (brochures, flyers, ads, documents, promotional items, etc.); Coordinate advertising with graphic designers, copy writers and vendors; Manage community relationships with referring physicians and practices; Create organized documentation of ongoing and planned digital, print, and in-person external communications and budgeting; Initiate new communication campaigns with referring doctors as well as current patients; Organize internal and external events; Perform all marketing activities for the practice.

Provide design direction and support for a complete rebrand, including new brand standards, production of all print collateral, website and email, promotional items, and large format pieces; Lead the firm’s creative direction and design for all external recruiting campaigns; Design firm-wide internal and external communications, and provide resources for marketing managers in satellite offices; Represent marketing team at semiannual conferences as presenter/discussion leader.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Design new website, highlighting the annual multi-day festival as well as events held throughout the year; Make updates to the website as needed; Develop all 2017 festival graphics for presentations, print, and social media; Layout 36-page 2017 festival program, assisting with content development.I also provide professional photographs of AIFF events for use on social media, marketing materials, and the website on a pro bono basis.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Direct and organize all communications for the annual TEDxRVA conference and TEDxRVASalons series, TEDxRVA open mic nights, TEDxRVA viewing parties, including: website redesign, event updates, and content development; planning, posting, and responding to comments and queries on multiple social media platforms and the TEDxRVA blog; managing contact lists for email communications, then designing, planning and sending email newsletters, announcements and follow-up communications. As team lead, I assembled and managed a team of four communications team members, overseeing their work on content development, press releases, and social media posts.

Harrisonburg, Virginia

Prepare and present curriculum for three levels of high school art and graphic design courses; Supervise and review student work and assignments; Supervise and assist with after school programs and club meetings

Create new and edit existing materials (event posters, menus, signage, etc.) and oversee materials production; Perform standard shift manager/bartender duties, such as opening and closing tasks, customer service, basic accounting practices, vendor relations, and delegating tasks to servers/hosts.

Present project briefs and communicate strategy with creative marketing team; Initiate and design a monthly e-newsletter campaign; Design web banner ads for new online marketing campaign; Create graphics and update images on the ecoFusion website

Nimule, Sudan, Africa

Lead, oversee, and participate hands-on in various community building projects (farming and reforestation, women’s tailoring training, girls’ sanitation material distribution, primary/secondary level teaching, after school program development); Report progress and potential obstacles to headquarters and donors; Fundraise and plan for future fundrasing opportunities.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Kappa Pi Art & Art History Honors Fraternity, AIGA (Washington, D.C. Chapter) Graduated with a BFA in Graphic.