Jessica Gargano Email & Phone Number

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

• Lead Beauty Brands team to create original visual concepts and ensure follow-through by providing creative direction and styling at product and lifestyle shoots• Guide team by providing clear direction while working to make processes most efficient• Design campaign collateral for print, in-store environment, digital and social for all Beauty Brands initiatives• Present creative materials to the client, as needed • Review proofs for accuracy and quality before final production

• Collaborated with a team of project managers and designers to create Payless promotional campaigns with an elevated fashion focus, accounting for 40% of the company's global revenue.• Developed creative concepts and campaigns for Payless ShoeSource’s Latin American market consisting of 20 countries across Latin American and the Caribbean. • Provided Art Direction and ensured follow-through for lifestyle and studio product photography for use in print collateral and in-store displays by concepting shot plans, picking inventory, and collaborating with other designers and photographers in styling. • Contributed high-level innovation ideas to a dedicated team that worked to enhance and update the Payless brand, internal processes, and promotional work.

Kansas City, Missouri

• Led and supported the CRM (email and direct mail) design team in concepting, wireframing, and designing promotions for Payless ShoeSource’s North American initiatives, that reached over 9.5 million U.S. subscribers.• Coordinated lifestyle and in-studio product photoshoots for social and digital channels by concepting shot plans, picking inventory, and collaborating with other designers and photographers in styling. • Contributed high-level innovation ideas to a dedicated team that worked to enhance and update the Payless brand, internal processes, and promotional work. • Collaborated with a team of project managers, designers, developers and writers to create Payless promotional campaigns with an elevated fashion focus, resulting in average online sales of $7 million each month.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

As directors of Ad 2's Virtual Agency, my counterpart and I are working together to provide marketing services to a local non-profit.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Ad 2 is a club within AAF-KC for members aged 32 and under. Designed for members just starting their career, Ad 2 caters to the group by providing events that help broaden networks.

Lenexa Ks

• Conceptualized and designed marketing pieces; web graphics, promotional e-mail blasts and layout/ad designs that comply with brand standards.• Explored and presented new typography, color palette and style each season that complimented existing brand standards.• Updated weekly design of website and landing pages as well as coordinated e-mail creative• Executed marketing campaigns in the form of HTML e-mails, ads and landing pages.

Lenexa, Ks

• Developed initial creative designs of Title Boxing’s apparel and equipment through final production of specs to manufacturer.• Collaborated with cross-functional partners to ensure that designs were executed correctly with attention to target consumer and manufacturer capabilities.

• Created custom graphics for screen printed sports apparel.• Produced high quality designs that were sensitive to aesthetics while maintaining specific production and efficiency goals.

• Led catalog coordination including concept development, layout design, model selection, styling and photo directing. • Designed promotional posters, brochures and fliers for sales, company meetings and trade shows.• Prepared, edited and color corrected images for print and web.

Springfield, Missouri

Graduated in May 2009 with a BFA in Graphic Design.

Responsible for creating custom graphics, layout design, and proof-reading copy. Managed print production, and shipping of orders.

Bfa, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: National Honors SocietyMSU Dean's List honoree, Member of Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, 3.38 Cumulative.

Education record