Provide graphic design support for four Colorado store locations and an event center. Create and send to print a monthly twenty(+)-page newsletter catalog. Make sales flyers, coupons, price tags, and posters for stores. Create print ads for newspapers and industry publications. Converted our monthly newsletter to a fully interactive online newsletter, including hyperlinks to products and YouTube videos, while stores were closed during shutdown.Design and send out several email blasts to customers on a weekly basis. Maintain email database. Send out review request emails for purchases.Post events, photos and run contests on social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest). Communicate with followers on social media. Use social and web analytic tools to target marketing and create digital marketing campaigns. Perform reputation management tasks.Take raw video footage and create product training and advertising videos using Adobe Premiere for YouTube and Facebook. Write descriptions for videos including tags. Run Facebook Live video events.Worked with web programmer to update the look and functionality of the website. Add new and update products on website. Write product descriptions and edit product photos. Check pricing from vendors and update accordingly. Add events and sales to website.Created an overall new branding for the company, as well as a 10-year anniversary celebration campaign.

Part-time sales consultant for art gallery. Greet customers, work art openings, provide knowledge of artists and processes, social media postings, e-mail blasts, website maintenance, printed flyers and customer sales.

Working from my home or at the client’s site, I provide graphic design, website design, computer based training interface design and logo design on a contract basis. I am a self-starter with attention to detail, capable of both design and implementation. My clients include: WOW! Internet and Cable; Quantix; Avaya; Kudo Interactive; Duffled; Knowledge, Incorporated; BMS Corporation; DLS Group; Transydian; 10XPeople; Tai Chi Project; Art Images & Art at the Loft Galleries, several individuals and small businesses. I also work with a variety of individual clients to provide them with logo design, identity, brochures, mailers, multimedia presentations, web design, web development and website maintenance.

Research, compose, proof and layout monthly calendar listings for galleries, classes and kids’ stuff for three local Denver newspapers: Washington Park Profile, Life on Capitol Hill and Neighborhood Life. Write articles of local happenings, art shows and artist profiles. Working with my publisher, I created a new feature Arts page for the Profile. My Arts pages appeared in all three papers, each focusing on local shows. To view one of my Arts pages, https://issuu.com/washparkprofile/docs/profile_june_2016-fb, https://issuu.com/washparkprofile/docs/profile_sept_2016-fb or https://issuu.com/washparkprofile/docs/profile_july_2016-fb and turn to page 21.

Served as multimedia graphics designer for a computer-based training and multimedia company. Developed projects from the initial design phase to completion. Performed graphics creation, animation development, multimedia authoring, and package design. Also provided graphics support for print-based documentation, proposal, and brochures.Clients included the NASD, NYSE, HP and Perkin Elmer.

Served as lead illustrator for regional headquarters of an international consulting firm. Responsible for creating technical illustrations, presentation graphics and brochures. Project manager for various illustration projects. Conducted training classes in graphics software for SEI employees and clients. Clients included IBM, HP, Lucent Technologies and others. Asked to join the IBM Creative Support Lab in July 1994 as a full-time contractor. The Creative Support Lab was a collection of talented people that provided IBM Software Manufacturing Solutions with graphics and multimedia support. Worked as part of a group through the whole process: from brainstorming ideas, storyboarding, creation of art, and implementation.