I work with an amazing team to enhance parent, student, and faculty engagement and spread the word about our school.

Marketing and design for the Office of Communications

Responsible for cover story visual concept and implementation for the five similar yet unique magazines each monthResponsible for the ever-evolving magazine layout as it goes through many editorial and sales revisions, manipulating the design of stories and placement of ads as content changes through the production cycleExtensive experience with packaging for print, pre-press and on-press situations Co-managed production requests and changes from the sales staff through a live online feedConcept and design of brand new ads, as well as changes to existing ads and verification of press-ready adsSpearheaded the design and implementation of a weekly email newsletter for each neighborhood; maintained the ads and content that changed each weekIn-house marketing projects include: footballs, t-shirts and baseball caps for local high school games with Advocate logoCoordinated and scheduled assignments for the two staff and two freelance photographers for each month’s issue

Help organize the editoral content and ads with ProteusCreated and made changes to ads, exported for approval and final production

Responsible for the redesign of all print-on-demand book covers as well as select new jackets and coversApproved press checks and proofsPerformed pre-production work on images for the interiors of books Experience with the design of interiors, from the copyright page to the index

Daily assembled the front two pages of the university student newspaperCreated vector and photo-based illustrations Arranged content and art using Adobe InDesignActed as liaison between photo desk and the various section editorsOversaw design and production of the 50-page Back to School edition