Karen Lee Email & Phone Number

Duluth Area, Georgia

Marketing financial education, promoting individual or small business development and financial security. Workshops, webinars and marketing collateral. Life Licensed. Certified Licensing Specialist.

• Marketing and brand development.• Creative design and writing.• Hands on print and web design and production.• Usability Design.• Concept through completion.• One Stop Creative Agency.• Writer/Illustrator children's books in production.

• Senior designer for financial forms, using Adobe CC.• Mac OS, PC/Windows OS, AS400.• Marketing writer/editor.• Project management, using Zendesk.• Developed traffic process to improve efficiency.• New business presentations/demos.

Transition team. Web Content Management for old site, while preparing and creating graphics for new Sharepoint site. Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Wrote eNewsletters and organized database for extensive photo library. Contract assignment has ended. Call me for temp or permanent position!

In the service of the community, the Census is more than counting people. Census results are tied to representation in the US House of Representatives, as well as federal funding of community services and infrastructure. The Census Follow Up Project helps to clarify answers on the Census form and to take an accurate count at each address so that each person is counted only once. The interview makes use of my “soft skills” to help clarify topics addressed on the Census, and complete the form. Consistently receiving 100% on call success.

Designer, Editorial Advisor, and Health Communications. Designed logo, designed and wrote promotional and marketing materials; created fundraising event materials, including invitations, symposium program brochure; organized and supervised silent auction and did research for web site and brochure. Used research for analysis of best method to reach target audience for community outreach and communications. Established multiple methodologies to reach diverse audience of minority community, renal cancer researchers, hospital administrators, financial donators. Developed minority health awareness program, including renal cancer education through print and web marketing. Designed and edited consumer/stakeholder/educational newsletter for print and online. Translated highly technical scientific language into easily understood plain English for marketing materials. Developed marketing strategy with partnership or co-op activities.

Intranet Web Development and Marketing Design for BellSouth Market In$ite Intranet site. Designed site for quick access usability. Created site using Dreamweaver, HTML, Photoshop, Acrobat, ImageReady, ImageStyler, Fireworks and BBEdit. Managed content. Also designed marketing materials to promote the site and the team whose work is incorporated into the Intranet site. Designed market research eNewletters for internal clients. Created marketing materials using PageMaker and Photoshop. Created templates for team use in Word and PowerPoint in order to give Market In$ite presentations a coordinated look with the site and marketing materials. Trained emergency web maintenance response team.

Sowden Companies, Inc. – Designer & Writer. Product packaging design and marketing, packaging and brochure design, multi-cultural research, web site design.Kimberly-Clark Corp. – Designer. Product packaging design, Scott product packaging redesign.JoyRyde Studio – Designer. Animation, business presentation.Georgia QuickStart – Designer. Instructional design, manual design and training poster design.The Coca Cola Company – Designer. Corporate promotions and PowerPoint presentations. Atlas Supply Company – Creative & Production Manager. Corporate communications design and production, new brochure, corporate identity, marketing and print production. Holiday Inn Worldwide – Designer. Internet/Intranet development and graphics, corporate web site development

Designed and wrote all ads, press releases, brochures, created customer and employee marketing newsletters, direct mail, product reference guides; produced multi-media business presentations; designed computer software packaging and training materials; developed and designed corporate image and brand through coordinating all materials; launched new brands; coordinated trade shows and giveaway incentive programs; designed trade show booths and materials; translated technical software terminology into easily understood language for internal and external clients; designed and wrote recruitment ads; organized corporate seminars, user meetings and placed media for the leading agricultural accounting software company. Also developed IT marketing plans, schedules and budgets. Coordinated projects and collateral with other departments. Ensured cost effective ROI. Helped to establish AGRIS as a Fast Tech 50 Company in 1993 and 1994.

Lead Designer. Designed ads and collateral for national publications: The Real Estate Book and The Apartment Book. Designed logo and layout concept for The Commercial Real Estate Book. In-house projects. Developed and wrote employee newsletter. Trained junior computer graphic artists, and developed formats and templates for consistent design parameters. Coordinated and prepared production flats for in-house web press.

Designed and wrote copy for Retail catalogue, POS and marketing promotion materials for worldwide Navy Exchange retail and ship stores. Design, copy and layout; outside agency production supervision, press run supervision. In-house team supervision. Developed Private Label and Special Purchase promotions. Developed budgetary guidelines based on vendor co-op expenditures. Developed system plan-o-grams. Liaison between headquarters staff and promotion specialists in the field, worldwide. Supervised pressruns at Quad/Graphics in Pewaukee, WI.

Bfa, Advertising, Design, Copywriting

Ga License, Life

Completed Graduate Marketing Courses

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