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Beltsville, Maryland, United States

• Create graphic communication products, establish workflow policies and graphic standards to maintain effectiveness and preserve consistency across all brand components. Create and support digital asset libraries..
• Created user interface and content structure for print and online publications (magazines, tabloids, and newsletters, etc.), serving client needs.
• Developed attractive, accurate, easy-to-understand original presentations and informational graphics by integrating fitting illustrations, high-quality typography, and photography, which best interpret and simplify.
• Designed an efficient operational workflow, yielding an average savings of $50k-$75k per year, resulting in an art and illustration budget conservation of $500-$2,500 per feature/cover illustration.
• Increased monthly subscriptions by 100%.
• Collaborated with various internal and external contributors and across organizational lines from concept to camera-ready or publication-ready final art. Produced solutions for other organizations: Women at Real Risks.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Function in various administrative, teaching, and service roles:Interim Department Chair: 07/2020 – Present
• Implement Howard University’s programs, mandates, and policies.
• Oversee organizational leadership, faculty recruitment, inventory management, and student support.
• Manage Art Department’s budget.Design Instructor, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor: 06/2000 – Present
• Employ a variety of teaching styles to mentor students from entry through to graduation.
• Create a database to support students with advising, mentoring, and design internship placement.

Fairfax, Virginia, United States

• Direct the day-to-day operations of the art department with focused supervision of designers and interns. Manage design and production costs for each publication, guaranteeing that production-cost-to-advertising.
• Used current desktop publishing technology and equipment to design news publications, magazines, newsletters, informational graphics, various forms of visual presentations, connecting subscribers, advertisers.
• Rebranded the company’s flagship publication, Diverse Issues in Education.
• Saved the company approximately 40% on mailing costs by providing complete in-house collateral design services.
• Consolidated operational functions to meet press deadlines and improve efficiencies.Additional Visual Information Specialist Experience:
• Graphics Director, Reno Gazette-Journal (Gannett Co.), Nev.