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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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.

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.