Chisel Design is a business-minded, strategy-focused creative design agency located in Columbus, Ohio. We specialize in crafting powerful brand stories, visual identities and logo designs, user experiences, website designs, marketing communications, and print design.Ultimately, we're problem-solvers that help our clients communicate clearly so that they create a lasting impact with customers and win new business.Our mindset consistently refuses mediocrity; it's how we help our clients stay fresh. We place a high value on fostering relationships with our clients, and believe that better outcomes come from building trust, having a collaborative spirit, and consistently emphasizing great design over ego every time.Our Design Services:01. Integrated Branding Solutions: Logo Design and Visual Identity Design Systems02. Digital Design: Website Design, User Experience, eCommerce, Information Architecture, Customer Experience, Native App Design, and Prototypes03. Visual Design: Marketing Communications and Print Design

Creative Director working to produce exceptional branding, visual, and interactive design experiences for our clients. I utilize a deep understanding of visual design coupled with user experience to guide our people, teams, and projects to enjoy successful and meaningful outcomes. My communication abilities helps make the complicated clear, the ethereal understandable and captivates clients with sensible and creative design direction that helps them meet goals.

Thinking in open terms for a globally recognized leader in library technology, I refined, refactored, and created new concepts that would help further establish competitive advantages and better differentiate OCLC in their market space. I built design strategies and developed numerous original design concepts and prototypes that helped gain internal approval and expand thinking for product design, user experience and development teams for interactive design and customer experiences on desktop and mobile platforms.

// RESPONSIBILITIES• Actively involved in managing all aspects of design by determining direction, selecting and/or approving imagery, reviewing and successfully evaluating design and copy equally• Responsible for overall quality and presentation of design work• Establish visual communication and design direction that encompassed all digital properties• Proactive in mentoring team members with mutual respect, design direction, coaching, provide regular performance feedback, and personally invested to building lasting relationships• Dedicated in making recommendations to leadership for a focused and effective design approach, and then directing various teams on how to execute on that vision• Responsible for stewarding the brand and communicating standards to team members• Communicate complex marketing goals and designs through presentations to wider audiences and other teams• Identified best possible solution and execution without regard for where the ideas originated• Committed to applying a hard-working attitude and building strength of group/agency// KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Led design direction for global web initiatives: designed 1500+ pages across 150+ sites for 2.5 years• Created a highly collaborative environment that matched people of varying skill levels and talents to projects requiring cooperative thinking and problem solving• Held weekly design reviews for all team members, allowing everyone to see the breadth of design, provide critical feedback, ensure brand standards and maintained a focused direction• Designed strategy, photographic direction and production requirements for “The J.P. Morgan Global Network of Investment Professionals”, which became a growing collection of 600+ headshots• Created a photographic image library consisting of on-brand imagery primarily from Getty and later augmented with several other sources• Designed, built, and socialized a mobile app icon architecture to further extend the brand into digital spaces

Met with clients during discovery, established organizational design processes, mentored and aligned talent to specific tasks, and design lead for all projects. Actively provided creative direction to build vision, provide direction, and equipped people with the means for wonderful outcomes.

I had a significant influence on establishing visual design as a viable business asset that, in turn, demonstrated a clear process to clients with measurable results. This was accomplished by helping to reduce wasteful actions for the client, increasing the overall efficiency of design, and raise internal awareness of the importance of design. My experience as a Graphic Designer focused primarily on website design and digital media, and secondarily focused on designing for print, logos, corporate identities, trade shows, and branding and marketing collateral. I have extensive experience specifying server environments and building custom LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) installs. This experience also led to a real-world understanding of how to secure and increase website performance through caching, compression, and blocking malicious users and bots.During my time at Delphia, I created design documents that served to objectify design direction and solutions. The result provided a clear and focused path of communication between clients and the Design and Usability teams. I assisted or led presentation meetings for the critical analysis of proposed design solutions with clients and sample audiences.I also established guidelines for all visual aspects of trade show collateral, including some interior design and viral marketing techniques to be used on the show floor. I was responsible for brainstorming sessions with marketing to transform abstract business goals into concrete visual communications that convey clear and concise business messages, which resulted in supported and extended the company brand.

I was counted on designing, implementing, building and testing designs for numerous websites. I was also responsible for occasionally meeting with clients, creating internal print collateral, and creating user interfaces with a strong focus on usability and user experience.

I was responsible for importing, photographing, evaluating, color correcting, and cataloging thousands of images. Because of the vast amount of images necessary for the video project, I formulated and then facilitated a 400% increase in overall productivity. I also formulated a defined processes for image production and optimization for video output.