Kimberly Franzen Giuffrida Email & Phone Number

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

As the strategic leader accountable for both day-to-day and overall outcomes for Graphic Design, Instructional Design, Project Management, Project Coordination, Production and Warehouse teams, I strive to remove roadblocks and empower creative and technical teams to unleash their potential. I find joy in creative operations management. A look at my day:• Set operational strategy with executive leadership and translate/support that strategy with teams to drive a viable company• Advocate for design accessibility and user experience across organization• Foster an equitable work environment that focuses on ensuring that others have what they need to be successful in their roles• Contribute graphic design expertise to strategic internal and external accounts• Respond to problems in an agile manner, effectively prioritizing the important against the urgent

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

As the Manager of Graphic Design at Eagle's Flight, I was accountable for the daily and overall deliverables for the Art and AV teams, ensuring that projects were kept within scope at all times.• Lent guidance, support, skill to team members as they navigated increasingly more complex client accounts; gave space and resources for people to grow• Liaised with leadership, reporting on outcomes to ensure organizational strategy was being supported• Anticipated risks, communicated them to team and provided solutions to keep moving forward• Researched and identified new graphic design tools to help grow team capability; a particular focus was placed upon design accessibility and end-user experience• Expert graphic design skill supported strategic internal and external accounts• Coached and empowered team members to enable potential; wins were celebrated together

As a graphic designer for Eagle's Flight, I designed program and experiential learning materials that were explicitly tailored to the client's culture, values, and requested ‘look and feel’. These designs included anything from a full-blown jungle-themed experience created to reinforce things like compliance and accountability in the workplace to participant guides and PowerPoint presentations. All items are designed to reinforce the learning experience.• I strove to bring the "sizzle" in everything I created• Experienced with local, national and international brands and following all identity guidelines• Excellent at ensuring all files are properly prepared and edited, before submission to the appropriate parties or print• Thrived in a collaborative, deadline-driven, cross-team environment

• Design and production of book covers, book interiors, indexing, marketing material, and advertising for Nelson Publishing and Marketing and its imprints • Worked closely with publisher, marketers, editors, illustrators, clients, and printers throughout entire publishing process• Projects included a variety of titles including children's books, novels, and textbooks

• Responsible for pricing, graphic design, and production on all projects• Prioritized projects to ensure that all deadlines were met• Worked directly with clients to create client-focused designs that met their needs and exceeded expectations* Projects include business collateral such as business cards, brochures and logos; tradeshow banners; multipage layouts and reports; fine art prints and cards; and posters.* Increased profits 32% while working within a tight operating budget. Turned the business around to solidly operate in the black by continuously expanding customer base and reducing costs.

Bachelor Of Fine Art, Graphic Design

A well-respected design curriculum with a focus on professional design theory and practice (Graduated with honors)

Guest Student

Attended U of T as a guest student studying Calculus 3.

Web Design

An intensive and technically based program focused on web design and web optimization. Courses in XHTML, CSS, Web layouts using Photoshop.