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Alameda, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

Define design strategy for how our family of brands (B2B, B2C) comes to life creatively across all surfaces and channels, including our Zelle 360 campaigns. Champion bold ideas and creative approaches to telling our brand stories, to forge deeper connections with both business/merchant and direct-to-consumer initiatives. Build, using, evolve, maintain, and advocate for design systems to ensure consistency and coherence across all platforms and channels. Create, define, and document brand consistency that ensures all materials support and strengthen our brand.Partner across the organization through cross-functional collaboration to establish the brand design team as an innovative thought partner. Partner with stakeholders to understand customer needs, articulate design rationale, assess technical feasibility, and analyze performance to evaluate design impact on business metrics.Hands-on design leader and do-er.

San Francisco Bay Area

Graphic Design, Art Direction and Project Management for various clients including Mizuho America, the San Francisco Zoo, BOLD, Inc., the Sierra Club, Chronicle Books, Partnership for College Completion, and others. Projects include print, publications, collateral, digital, digital platforms, branding, user interface, user experience, exhibit/environments, photography, illustration and production.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead design development and production of visual narrative as an environmental experience for Citi CIO (Chief Innovation Officer) Keynote at the World Economic Forum, in Davos 2020.Developed, and managed “Innovators @ Citi” initiative which engaged +45k employees in innovation in 4 months. Created branded design system for this event series, digital and print event collateral. Supported Citi Ventures and Innovation in-house marketing team, and internal “Start-up Incubation” Institutional Banking Group.

San Francisco Bay Area

Leads classes in the undergraduate Graphic Design program, both onsite and online in the topic of Typography: History, Hierarchy, Form and Practice, with a student rating of 4.9 out of 5. Formerly lead classes in the Undergraduate Graphic Design program, both onsite and online, in topics ranging from Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Design Fundamentals, , with a student rating of 4.7 out of 5.

Union City, Ca

Project management, art direction, graphic design, photography, retouching, production bidding and print production of a 550 page catalog. Art direction and graphic design and management of production of brochures, environmental graphics, event assets, trade-show materials, and educational, informational, instructional materials.

Morgan Hill, California, United States

Lead multiple large-scale and small scale creative projects concurrently, while acing as the key decision maker to develop, define and drive the visual identity of 2 in-house brands, and the branding of all product lines. Research and present creative directions and concepts for new projects and ongoing brand inspiration to all levels of leadership, including the CEO. Collaborate across disciplines to understand and execute brand vision and direction from beginning to completion of projects including: Scheduled, bid, produced and delivered projects and communications through a range of media, including mobile and online platforms, e-communications, digital and print communications. Lead interactive and visual digital design efforts and develop UX design solutions by analyzing business requirements and user needs to create user flows, task flow diagrams, wire-frames, and prototypes for stakeholder and user feedback. Oversee the creation of beautiful mock-ups consistent with UI guidelines and brand standards, while creating design documentation. Manage governance processes and internal release cycles, collaborating with stakeholders to maintain a prioritized backlog of work items. Apply human-centered design methodologies and lead cross-functional design sprints and workshops, evangelizing the design process throughout the organization.Lead development of environmental experiences, from bidding, to design & production, to implementation.

San Jose, Ca

Responsible for Design development of the official publication of San Francisco Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA).

Brooklyn, Ny

Created visual communication assets of two non-profits: NYC College Line and GradNYC!, including: visual design for publications focused on equity in education, print materials, event assets, signage, and promotional materials.Lead UX Design for responsive websites and apps, including problem definition, site-maps, wire-flows, information architecture, interaction design, design systems, visual design, prototyping and testing.Supported social media strategy with visual campaigns engaging more than 100k NYC and CUNY students annually.

Greater New York City Area

Created brand story, brand guidelines and brand assets for Miningco. Visual Design for Miningco" from end to end: user interface and user experience from concept through development and deployment with delivery timeline of 90-days.Collaborated with small agile development team of four.

Sourced, hired and managed creative talent: photographers, videographers, agencies, models, illustrators, graphic designers. Created and managed all visual branding and brand standards. Developed and managed visual storytelling and all creative projects from beginning to end, from concept development through competitive bidding, location scouting, through to budgeting and execution in both print and digital mediums.

Project Manager, Art Director and Graphic Designer. Responsible for all branding, design, and all designed marketing, printed, and web materials. Responsible for branding of the Surgical business unit, creating and maintaining all brand standards, conceptual development of all design materials.

Designed event materials for ZooFest, Furball, Zootoberfest and others including: event branding and invitations, signage and environmental graphics. Designed materials for membership, kids activities and camps, and zoo signage. Socialized baby penguins.

San Francisco Bay Area

Part-time faculty in the Undergraduate Graphic Design Department, teaching: typography, concept development, graphic design fundamentals, and Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead corporate rebranding project from design concept through implementation in 10 stores locate across the United States. Supported Marketing campaigns, and created and produced concepts for marketing campaigns; managed design and production guidelines. Secured and managed creative design talent of 2 photographers and 2 retouch artists.Sourced and managed vendors for print, digital, signage, and industrial design.

San Francisco Bay Area

Won 6-month paid fellowship, with the in-house Gift Design Department.Design and Project Management of Gift Items including: Legacy of the Puppy, Hula Honeys, Bad Girl’s Guide, and more. Production and Production support for internal team of 6 designers and 40+ design contractors.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Graphic Design

Fashion/Apparel Design

User Experience