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Baltimore, MD, US

Baltimore, MD, US

• Collaborating with small businesses and educational organizations to craft brand identities, front-end web designs, motion design systems, and engaging content.🔆 Empowering creatively, creating compassionately.🟰 Design.
• Managing client/collaborator communications and project timelines.
• Designing brand identity house styles and expanding existing design languages while adhering to brand guidelines.
• Improving online user experiences by organizing content and designing responsive websites in accordance with UX design principles.
• Creating consistent design layouts across web, print, & social media.
• Communicating brand narratives through motion design, video production, and photography.

Baltimore, MD, US

• Teaching students brand design and creative storytelling through Motion Graphics, 3D design, and Special Effects for film.
• Designing and managing a centralized classroom website in Figma for students to access presentations, tutorials, and online resources.
• Teaching 2D animation, matting, keying, and visual effects techniques in After Effects to produce motion designs and effects for time-based media.
• Teaching various modeling, lighting, animation, and 3D rendering techniques inside of Cinema 4D.
• Recording weekly video tutorials and posting them to our Figma classroom.
• Producing engaging and educational motion design & special effects content to inspire students.

Represented MICA by conducting Individualportfolio reviews for prospective applicants.

Havre De Grace, Maryland, US

• Facilitated brand identity design and creative direction for internal and external customers.
• Designed and developed front-end websites utilizing Figma and WebFlow for internal and external customers.
• Collaborated with marketing and recruitment teams to design and manage the company’s social media presence.
• Collaborated with product design and development teams to create UI/UX designs in Figma.
• Designed layout typography, diagram graphics, and data visualizations for RFPs.
• Produced photos, videos, and motion graphics for marketing and recruitment content.

Baltimore, MD, US

Supporting Baltimore Non-profit Village of Love and Resistance, 6 designers and myself consulted VOLAR, designed print & social media marketing materials, and produced online Canva templates for ease-of-use.

Each semester, seniors at VCU take the Documentary Capstone course. I share my experience as an artist/designer, host motion design workshops, and I provide project feedback to the students.

Towson, Maryland, US

Series of animated social media posts marketing various Healthcare companies.

• Collaborated with the Center for Biomarker Research & Precision Medicine (BPM) to design their brand identity, house style, and user-friendly website layout for organizing research.
• Coordinated with a photographer and designer to create supplementary content for the website.
• Worked with the in-house web development team at VCU School of Pharmacy to redesign the School of Pharmacy homepage, various other pages, and several UI elements on their website.

Under the art direction of Aline Lin, business owner & designer, we developed Wordpress sites, UI / UX systems for apps, storyboarded animations, photographed projects, designed print materials, and was educated about business development and strategy.

Under the art direction of Sue Cowell, graphic designer. Designed and built websites, logos, editorial revisions and was mentored throughout to achieve more efficient design workflow, taught art direction strategies.

Made Youtube art & animations for other channels building a large client-base. Produced original content; rap videos, special FX skits. Produced online tutorials in many different Adobe programs. SocialBlade YouTube partner, paid through video advertisements, allowed access to exclusive YouTube features. Designed branding, print materials, produced videos.