Brett Lawson Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Creating and leading the design strategy for multiple teams, including initiatives that span multiple departments.- Working directly with key business stakeholders to identify and analyze opportunities to improve our products in ways that will deliver significant user value.- Ensuring a healthy pipeline of mid-longer team initiatives that will help drive future innovation and align with design and business objectives.- Working effectively in an agile environment to deliver product increments and ensure that requirements are met. Measures and monitors design quality after releases.- Communication and stakeholder management - Communicates with senior stakeholders throughout the product development process and manages expectations.- Design Leadership - participate in the design leadership community (Managers and Heads Of) to help drive best practices across the broader design community.- Recruitment; participates in the recruitment within the design discipline.- Line management, coaching and mentoring designers.

Design Photoshop, XD, Figma and HTML front-end web application mockupsAim for best practice, create and maintain quality HTML and CSS code, provide support during testing cycles and post-production deployment, engage in peer code reviews.Identify UX/UI issues and maintain processes that address and resolve them, (and be sure to communicate/alert stakeholders as needed).Ensure applications are free of common coding UI/UX mistakes (and follow standard UI/UX practices).Complete unit and integration testing per standards and design specs.Demonstrate high level of proactivity and strong ownership.Communicate effectively both inside and outside the team to achieve results and build strong relationships.Develop a good understanding of the company’s products and customer’s needs

Toronto, Canada Area

Reporting to the Creative Services Manager, I Develop and analyze design and development requirements and provide efficient, streamlined, cross browser compatible solutions as a result. I worked on both the desktop and mobile versions of the back end buyer interface helping out the engineering team with any CSS inquiries during the development process, along with designing the user interface for their iOS and Android applications.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Support all websites by producing live digital download assets for launch• Redesign all web properties.• Create all graphics being used for each property in order to create consistency across the family of corporate web properties, linkage and alignment between the parent company and it’s business units.• Work with web developers to develop and deploy production-ready assets and publish generated content to websites and e-commerce platforms.• Manage relationship between webdev and marketing• Provide on-demand creative support and general graphic design to the company in particular Marketing and Web teams including creating presentation templates, Slides, Print material, logo development and other marketing assets as requested.• Design and maintain current email and web-based campaigns, banners, graphicsand other images.• Track analytics for mail campaigns through e-commerce platforms.

• Day-to-day web production, project prioritization and scheduling• Complete website updates, posting content to new and existing websites• Providing documentation support to the Project Manager as required• Cut Photoshop graphics to web, and create simple graphics for web use• Create and alter CSS as needed.• Create flash banners• Create HTML for existing and new websites

• Provide Marketing, Operations, Technical, and Financial consultation and assistance to franchisees• Return all inbound franchisee calls within four hours• Conduct outbound proactive calls with franchisees• Think creatively and productively in answering questions• Monitor Franchisee Message Board and respond to postings• Monitor and assist franchisee sales growth with effective goal setting• Responding to customer complaints• Train franchise on site during first week of store opening• Conduct marketing visits• Create marketing material

Elizabethton, Tn. And Fort Myers, Fl.

Pitched in the minor leagues and independent leagues from 2001 until 2009. Minnesota Twins, Quebec Capitals, Montreal Royales, Edmonton Cracker-Cats, Winnipeg Goldeyes and Fargo-Moorehead Redhawks. Currently playing in the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) in Ontario.

Advanced Diploma, Advertising Design With A Minor In Corporate Branding

Graduated with an advanced diploma in advertising design.

Kinesiology And Exercise Science

Attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University on a baseball scholarship.

General Arts

Attended El Paso Community College on a baseball scholarship.

General Arts

Attended Frank Phillips College on a baseball scholarship.