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. Perform quality control functions, including proofreading, prepress markup, and authorizing press proofs and press runs. Oversee the maintenance of website and social media sites using third-party content management systems. Top Client, Autumn Publishing, VA:• 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 data and original ideas for the intended audience effectively.• 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 (WARR), Research Association of Minority Professors (RAMP), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Association of Black Accountants, National Medical Association (NMA), National Black Child Development Institute, Inc., March of Dimes, Executive Leadership Foundation, Black Entertainment, and Sports Lawyers Association, Inc.(BESLA).

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.• Lead HU Design team in earning recognition for Human-Machine Interface Concept (General Motors-sponsored international automotive design competition).• Develop and deliver course materials using Blackboard learning management system, Google collaborative tools, and Zoom.

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 revenue stay within an acceptable margin. Assess and recommend the procurement of new equipment and software. Attend meetings with executive leadership, editors, sales, and other teams. Approve submissions for final printing. Develop statements of work and request for proposals (RFPs), evaluate bids, and award contracts.• Used current desktop publishing technology and equipment to design news publications, magazines, newsletters, informational graphics, various forms of visual presentations, connecting subscribers, advertisers, jobseekers, administrators, and students to print and digital content. • 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.• Graphics Editor, The Salinas Californian (Gannett Co.), Calif.• USA Today