• Working with a cross functional team, launched a growing suite of internal and B2B tools from the ground up; responsible for creating the design language and managing the design system • Manage the development of all UX frameworks and information architecture, user flows, site maps, wireframes, and high fidelity prototypes• Lead user testing and user research sessions with internal stakeholders and Walmart Suppliers

• Responsible for translating ideas and concepts into useful and engaging solutions—for websites and intranets across mobile and responsive frameworks. • Lead all phases of creative concepting, visual design, and art direction for assigned client accounts, including running creative and brand experience workshops with clients and leading all creative presentations. • Apply brand identity systems, typography, photography, and color to create innovative solutions that align with business and user needs while collaborating with user experience designers, front-end developers, and content strategists on brainstorming, UX client workshops, user interviews, wire framing, sketching sessions/ideation, and quality assurance.

• Studied Design Thinking methodologies over the course of an intensive 12-week, 60+ hour per week bootcamp, with an emphasis on UX and UI, as well as developing skills in HTML and CSS• Consulted with Chicago-based start-up client on website and mobile app development—providing competitive analysis, website content development, wireframing, branding, and UI/visual design

Lead designer on rebranding initiative with the Global Marketing Dept. of Fortune 250 company• Provided art direction and design for corporate identity system comprised of 30+ deliverables—including print, digital, social, and environmental channels• Built and tested all design templates; helped author and design a 300+ page brand standards guide, distributed to 65,000+ colleagues in 120 countries • Presented training sessions to global marketing leaders and brand ambassadors; wrote and recorded a series of training videos for international design teams

Responsible for creative direction and production process management for in-agency content marketing department, producing award-winning client publications and marketing materials • Managed design staff and led creative concept development and branding initiatives for all client deliverables • Streamlined efficiency and collaboration with in-house editorial team through effective process creation, contributing to improved editorial content strategy• Conceptualized, directed, and produced photoshoots; hired photographers and photo retouchers and commissioned illustrators• Spear-headed award-winning redesign of iostudio’s flagship publication, including creation and management of robust Adobe CS templates and libraries • Designed and launched the agency’s first integrated digital publication, fully interactive and produced in-house using Adobe DPS; provided creative direction for video and multi-media components of the web and digital experience

Assumed the role of art director, designer, photo editor and production manager for monthly B2B magazine, responsible for all phases of creative process from conceptualization to production• Initiated leadership and execution of successful re-design and rebranding initiatives for multiple publications• Produced 8 special sections annually, in addition to all in-house advertising and marketing materials for multiple Neal Award-winning business publications

Responsible for direct supervision of a team of seven designers; provided creative and design direction, managed workload balancing and adherence to quality control processes, and created/monitored annual, quarterly, and project budgets• Contributed to design and production of firm’s high-end collateral, including annual marketing campaigns, sales kits, and annual reports• Led growth efforts for international team of designers in CEB’s New Delhi, India office; managed process efficiency by implementing new workflow model for a team of 9 designers, additionally responsibile for hiring, training, and onboarding all new hires

• Managed design, development, and client service while simultaneously producing long- and short-term deliverables—including research studies, invitations, brochures, marketing collateral, conference materials, newsletters, and presentations• Led a project team focused on creating and maintaining a comprehensive template design system and graphics library for a department of 60+ designers

• Contributed to all phases of magazine design and production for over 100+ annual travel publications, community magazines, trade publications, and other custom magazines• Working directly with in-house editors and photographers, developed creative concepts and graphic design of editorial page layouts, feature spreads, photo essays, and special advertising sections