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Zug, Ch

Lead the North American Creative Team from a management + SME perspective. Own day to day team operations. Manage hiring, onboarding, training, skills assessments, define tools & learning paths. Evangelize UX/UI and Product Design across internal and external teams. Act as partner to Strategy, Sales, Marketing & C-Level Leadership. Run group learnings & development sessions while balancing morale & individual member needs for success. Lead internal branding & workshop initiatives to reshape aging products into a modern experiences with new capabilities centered around storytelling. Objection handle challenges while celebrating wins. Leverage industry partnerships to provide new experiences for team members. Contribute to pitch work and sales initiatives while managing relationships with clients and satellite and/or siloed teams.

Zug, Ch

Zug, Ch

New York, New York, Us

Work directly with clients and C-level internal leadership to support RFPs and BD pitches. Act as Sr Leader within the Design group infrastructure at the agency. Mentor and lead Designers and UXers across various stages of career development and educate based on individual needs while helping them discover and meet goals inside and outside their current roles. Participate in leadership training and workshops. Join in full-time active consulting work at large financial institutions and ecommerce brands to assist with strategy, concepts, best practices and overall design requirements.

Newark, Nj, Us

Creative Design leader for the Acquisition + Advertising BU of the Audible brand. Balance emerging brand standards across externally facing on everything from holistic internal promos, to 3rd party partnerships and within the Amazon.com ecosystem. Activate UX/UI/VX knowledge and expertise to shape workflows, tools and best practices within the team. Work to bring the brand to a wider audience while maintaining high standards for KPIs and educating potential members on all storefronts and platforms to engage with Audible. Promoting new Audible Original content to draw in new membership opportunities.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Associate Creative Director-type role for Johnson & Johnson's Talent Acquisition business unit based at HQ in New Brunswick, NJ. Manage a team of designers, developers, copywriters, social media managers, and 3rd party vendors to create marketing materials for J&J's Employer Brand. Built a brand new Employer Brand based on emerging global standards which includes; manifesto statement and supporting videos, brand guidelines and digital book, brand portal DAM system, templates for print & digital, and content creation guidelines. Refined careers.jnj.com to be more in line with the new brand while jnj.com goes through a complete rebrand. Created and managed web pages at a complete lifecycle: concept to strategy, UX wireframes to visual comps, prototype/production to development, Visual QA/legal review to live. Led all design related training. Acted as J&J's Global Adobe Creative Ambassador to promote products and train users. Directed, shot, and edited photo and video shoots. Advisor to new technology and R&D for related platforms and toolsets.

Hamilton, Nj, Us

Work with the CCO and Brand Director to enable the Trenton, NJ Headquarters with a more robust asset creation capabilities for a successful CPG beverage brand. This includes 3D rendering, video, lifestyle and product photography, illustration, retouching, labelling and packaging, and design workflow optimization using Adobe CC and CageApp. (Per-Diem Contractor)

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

I fulfilled multiple responsibilities that range from client-side to internal.Design: Adobe Creative Liaison & Trainer, UX Designer, Photo Retoucher, Illustrator, Visual & Brand Designer, and Art Director. Technology: Digital asset management and taxonomy, advise design tools and process, creative liaison to global IT, Office Services and Enterprise Applications.Production: Manage team on best practices, most efficient tools, and develop new standards for how Digital Production teams can bridge the gap between creative and development. (i.e Responsive Design, Adaptive Content, evangelizing Adobe products to streamline Design processes.)Etc: Project management, producer, copywriter, product resource for client specific needs.

Assume responsibility for developing and driving an original and innovative art style for the conventions hosted by NEAS. Work with other disciplines to establish technical and aesthetic guidelines for artwork that is used in all aspects of the event’s visual presence. Ensure that all assets created by the art team conform to the style and technical guidelines of the visual templates and theme. Participate in and run meetings, reviews, and planning as part of effective communication with the team and other analogous departments. Inspire, motivate, and mentor other artists in best practices, processes, and procedures pertaining to production. Operate closely with the production team in creating schedules for the art and theme departments. Collaborate effectively with Marketing and PR teams to create and deliver high quality art assets in support of the company's overall goals and events.

Boston, Ma, Us

Utilizing Adobe Photoshop to alter, enhance or repair images of products, people and places to display on RueLaLa.com for resale. Create, fix and use custom scripts for faster management of Adobe’s software. Use Adobe Bridge to manage the workflow from the Photo department to the Imagers. Migrate and upload photos to the website. Maintain the company’s high standard of quality, quantity and consistency on all images.

South Boston, Ma, Us

Maintain complete control over any and all inventory purchased within the company. Managed all product movement within the company. Enter all financial documentation pertaining to purchase orders, estimates, invoices, receiving and billing. Negotiating with vendors to attain maximum profit margin and the lowest cost possible. Complete any available product certification programs to better understand the integration and application of the product. Work with the Project Department on the pricing, availability, delivery, application and timing of each new project. Assist with design efforts for marketing and sales documents. Provide technical support for usability issues and critical site problems, as needed. Communicate sensitive tax documents and charity grants to non-profit organizations for donation software and hardware.

South Boston, Ma, Us

Computer and network repair. Worked with other Help Desk analysts and Senior Technicians to understand workstation support needs. Resolve calls that have been escalated in the ConnectWise system. Assumed primary responsibility for client's workstation support. Provided hands-on and remote controlled workstation support services when requested by peers and clients. Required to create software images. Lead and participated in hardware and software deployments. Procured and disposed of hardware and accessories. Held responsibility for all work in progress assigned to ensure completion of tasks and proper communications with clients. Operated the retail store when needed. Reconciled client demand for services with available resources.

Acted as an outside consultant for the company’s developed concepts and designing materials for their client. This included, but was not limited to; logos, business cards, letterheads, newsletters, invitations, advertisements, flyers, vouchers, direct mail, postcards and coupons. Photo-manipulation was used to enhance the features of models, landscapes and other photographic work when requested. Worked to ensure budget and brand is maintained with printers and other designers. Coordinated, designed and distributed newsletters. Assisted the marketing team with marketing, brainstorming and advertising strategies. Estimated the time required to complete projects and providing quotes for clients. Contributed designs and ideas to the overall final product. Proofread to produce accurate and high-quality work. Demonstrated illustrative skills through rough sketching. Used innovation to redefine a design at minimum cost and time. Presented finalized concepts to clients or account managers for proof acceptance.

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Managed all aspects of a massage therapy clinic and full-service spa. Participated in the hiring of new estheticians, massage therapists and hair designers. Planned and executed team meetings and events. Traveled to trade shows to promote and discover new clients and products. Assisted in the creation and development of the marketing, branding and website development. Organized all clients’ appointments and therapists’/estheticians’ schedules into a digital tracking system. Maintained the consistency of supplies and cleanliness of the spa.

Assisted designers in the creation and duplication of artwork, documentation and other proofs for clients. This included, but was not limited to; photo-manipulation, photo-restoration, vectorization of raster images, logo creation, custom ordering 3rd party business cards, shipping packages, sorting direct mailings and making confidential legal copies. Assisted print makers in the use of offset printers, copiers, bindery and ordering. Kept the offices, workshop and customer center in clean and operational order. Performed maintenance and repairs on the in-house PC and Mac computers.

Bfa, Illustration, Graphic Design, Creative Writing

High School Diploma, Art/Art Studies, English