Jennifer Closson Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

• Create and execute weekly lesson plans that meet established curriculum guidelines and include American Sign Language, Spanish, Music, and Art• Deliver nurturing care and continuous supervision for 14 children • Maintain accurate daily reports on CSR sheets, Diaper Logs, and Procare for internal records• Create daily parent-facing reports on Procare that include food entries, diaper logs, lesson notes, and photo observations• Work closely with Toddler Team Lead to assess current environments and restructure them to appropriately meet the mental and physical needs of children ages 15-24 months• Create a positive learning environment through the use of role modeling, Conscious Discipline, and the understanding of a child’s Three Brain States• Maintain a clean and sanitary space for children to play and learn at all times including before and after messy play, meals, and diaper changes• Build a solid foundation of communication and teamwork between myself and children’s caretakers at home• Maintain a flexible mindset to work with co-teacher, floaters, meal staff, and administrative staff to meet the ever-growing needs of the children under my care

Golden Valley, Mn, Us

• Facilitate the process of bringing a game from idea to delivery• Communicate timeline, milestones, and impacts of delays regularly to the team• Coordinate Game Development by working with developers and the Event Manager to determine playtest needs and schedules • Maintain detailed spec sheets to track changes in components, materials, and cost• Manage timeline and deliverables with illustrators and graphic designers• Leading design decisions, collaborating with Creative Director, and facilitating workflow process directly with artists • Liaison with factories to receive quotes that ensure the manufacturing cost fits the target price of the product• Create process documentation to ensure processes are visible, efficient, and repeatable• Contribute to business strategy sessions to implement improvements and cost savings• Play and give feedback on prototypes

• Work closely with multiple teams involved in the creation of a new board game based upon the existing Video Game IPs such as Rome Total War• Create all layout for game components including standees, cards, scoreboard, punchboard, box, and rules• Create website landing page for new boardgames• Create and manage Kickstarter page asset images• Coordinate with off-site videographer to relay any art assets required for 3D rendering of the game for videos • Playtest elements of the game during development• Work with the development team to ensure that documents for items such as card text and rules meet the expectations and standards of the board game industry• Ensure the product matches the marketing and demographics of the video game player base and also the future sales demographic• Manage coordination and collection of arts and assets from the exterior art team

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Focused design and layout work for Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game and all associated materials as a continuation of my Creative Director role for this IP with Greater Than Games.

Belding, Michigan, Us

• Communicate with and establish updated publication processes for department heads from Publishing Division, Warehouse, and Sales• Lead convention coordination for Flat River Group and Greater Than Games including timelines, budgets, booth layout plans, travel, and booth asset design• Manage Licensing/Localization in order to evaluate status of current contracts and create a plan to improve communication with on-going partners while finding new partners• Coordinate timelines between department and establish project roadmaps• Partner with distribution channels and retailers from local games stores to big box retailers (Amazon, Target, Barnes & Noble, and more)• Maintain Creative Director role over Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game products• Coordinate shipping plans for international inbound shipments from factories to various global warehouse locations

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Collaborate with department heads from Marketing, Warehousing, and C-Suite to improve inter-departmental communication and productivity through the implementation of SOPs• Lead and supervise other members to assess productivity, workflow, and efficiency roadblocks and engage in an active role to assist with finding solutions• Assess costs of current and new products, create reprint schedules, and place new POs with the factory directly with CEO• Use QuickBooks to analyze internal expenditures and create opportunities for cost savings• Servant Leadership addressing concerns from employees to ownership• Provide status reports on inbound containers and upcoming reprints to Warehouse• Review and approve shipping plans from factories• Approve product quotes from factories• Manage elements of convention planning including graphics, booth layout, and advertising• Maintain prior job role as Creative Director for most popular IPs• Establish policies that promote company culture and vision• Supervise website redesign to ensure branding integrity is upheld while updating UX interface and maintaining needed back-end requirements for shipping

St Louis, Missouri, Us

• Direct in-house and external artists including finalizing contracts, negotiating pricing, determining timelines, and reviewing art from sketch to completion• Partner with the Marketing team to ensure responsible brand usage and communicate the team’s needs to the design department for items such as online & print advertising, booth/POS signage, and advertising materials for conventions• Write scripts, storyboard, and work with contract videographer to create engaging marketing videos for new games• Assess current trends in pop-culture and entertainment industry to create games that thematically and visually meet current trends and set new ones• Create and edit marketing copy, website content, rulebooks, internal documents, and other outward facing assets• Assist with convention planning, organizing timelines for upcoming games, planning new business ventures• Implement and use project management styles including Agile, Kanban, and Waterfall to ensure the Design Department runs efficiently and effectively• Create and implement timetables and budgets for projects• Liaise directly with and visit factories to negotiate pricing, establish project perimeters, and use my knowledge of the manufacturing process to find the best solutions for production• Collaborate Marketing and Game Development teams on new products to determine feasible content and production expectations

Contracts Included:Bob Evans• Layout design for Catering MenuThe Women's Book (thewomensbook.com) • Creative Director/Designer for The Women's Book quarterly magazine distributed in Columbus, Cincinnati & Cleveland • Graphic Designer for the yearly directories distributed in Columbus, Cincinnati & Cleveland • Design book release invitations and other promotional flyers/adsThe Center Sanctum (thecentersanctum.com)• Design advertising material for sales and promotions including brochures, email blast ads, posters and flyersChannel Print Solutions (channelprintsolutions.com)• Assist with basic website management and content layout• Video editing for use as marketing materials

• Design interior decor elements (frames, wall plaques, candleholders, diffusers and more)• Create packaging for our in-house brands (Bella Villa, Bella Villa Living & Lillian Scott) as well as customer specific packaging (i.e. Interiors By Design, Essential Home, etc)• Study market trends and sales to develop new products and improve current products• Coordinate with factories for competitive pricing and quality item production• Project management/organization for the department

Newark, Oh, Us

• Specialize in creating posters, invitations, and flyers for hospital-wide events• Design and write bimonthly, internal newsletter for Licking Memorial Health Systems• Creating and schedule all external advertising• Wrote content for quarterly, community publication, Community Connection• Team with IT department to redesign and update the Health Systems Web site with a clean, modern appearance and Flash animations• Layout and design coordinator for Hospital-wide Style Guide• Photograph employee and community events

Creative Specialist (2008-2009)• One of three artists in the company who specialize in gathering marketing information from sales teams and clients to create in-depth campaigns consisting of online and various print ads for companies based in the Newark, Heath and Granville area to help grow advertising within our newspaper in such a way that it raises the standards and appearance of our company’s product• Created demographic specific advertisements for our Magazine publication, Trend, which is circulated to upper-class, middle-aged and older woman in the Newark, Granville, and Columbus area• Sole Designer of all marketing campaigns including online/print ads, brochures, and flyers for The Center Sanctum Weight Loss and Beauty Spa guaranteeing the satisfaction and continued business of a key advertiserGraphic Artist (2007-2008)• Created black & white, color and on-line advertisements for publication in Gannett newspapers and publications in Newark, Coshocton, Pataskala, and Zanesville, OH• Designed layouts of a 12-page, monthly publication for Zanesville Chamber of Commerce• Assembled 12-page TV Guide publication for central Ohio based on PDF’s sent from Tribune Media