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Colorado, United States

Designing and producing visuals such as illustrations, logos, layouts, and photography. Developing templates and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for video and static digital ads with a focus on ecommerce and direct response marketing. Enhancing the visual elements of videos, email designs, sales funnels, and motion graphics, ensuring cohesive and.

Washington, United States

Contract illustrator / designer for 'Unsettled' and 'Spirit Fire' card and board game products.

United States

Visualizing and creating graphics including illustrations, logos, layouts and photos. Creating templates and SOPs for video and static digital advertising in an ecommerce and direct response marketing voice. Shaping the visual aspects of videos, email design, funnel upkeep and optimization, motion graphics, etc.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Defining requirements, visualizing and creating graphics including illustrations, logos, layouts and photos. Shaping the visual aspects of websites, videos, e-books, motion graphics, exhibitions, etc.*This position was just a transition from the subsidiary to the parent company (family-owned to large corporation)

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Defining requirements, visualizing and creating graphics including illustrations, logos, layouts and photos. Shaping the visual aspects of websites, videos, e-books, motion graphics, exhibitions, etc.

Loveland CO

I created digital assets included static and animated HTML 5 / GIF Advertising. Print assets were built to prepress standards (bleed, safe area, etc) for POP In-store advertising, Direct Mail, etc. I brainstormed and ideated agency pitches which involved illustrated storyboards and custom manipulation and combination of stock photos with compositing and.

Louisville, CO

Designed UI and UX for Navis and CoalfireOne compliance-focused web applications. Contacted and organized stakeholder groups to help achieve maximum deliverability on the platform. I worked collaboratively with 5 remote development teams within an agile/scrum framework to deliver new features to stakeholders.

• Managed Video, Social, in-store, advertising with all aspects of creative packaging and marketing of products/services including billboards, updating website, Ads, print, video displays, cutouts, signs, etc. Print.

• Created spec and production ad design for in-house and client marketing for web and print media. Print assets were built to prepress standards (bleed, safe area, etc) for POP In-store advertising, Direct Mail, and.

Santa Barbara, California Area

• Created illustrations for t-shirt designs and prepared files for final production. The process involved a comp / sketch phase, followed by a tight illustration, lastly the files were converted to channels and trapped.

Irvine CA

I was initially hired on as a concept artist, but was elevated to work on character animation, level design, & game tester as well. As a result I became an all-purpose designer (concept art, environment art, UI, character art, animation) for the developer working directly with Playstation as a publisher.

Began my professional journey within the newspaper industry. I designed for web and print media. Here I used both old and new methods of newspaper production, using Quark Xpress and Photoshop but also paste-up and film development for plates in use on the newspaper press.

Associate'S Degree, Graphic Design

High School Diploma