Mindy Duits Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

After spending a year with the Brand Studio Team, I was promoted to the position of Lead Brand Designer. I proactively address operational gaps, initiate design workflows, develop company-wide templates, and innovate pitch designs for high-value sales opportunities. I also prepare high-visibility presentations for senior leadership. In this role, I aim to educate and train various teams on how to effectively use our brand messaging, devise innovative presentation approaches, and collaborate with the larger Brand Studio team to achieve impressive results.

After 1 year of elevating the design of client-facing pitches, sales and marketing collateral, and internal presentations, I was promoted to a Senior Content Designer position to develop a content strategy and solutions for larger-scale design needs and high-profile pitches. Collaborating across Sales Enablement, Product Marketing, and Brand teams, I actively bridged gaps between teams for brand consistency. I continued to impact the organization, gaining trust amongst Business Development leadership and the c-suite team, winning Sales Team Player of the Year for 2022. However, it soon became clear around my second anniversary at Tinuiti that the best way I could continue to grow and make an impact on the organization was to sit on the Marketing Team as a "Senior Brand Designer," alongside brand designers in a new "Brand Studio" team, bringing a sales perspective to their design team, bring further development to the brand, while continuing to design pitch decks for the business.

Provides strategic support and creative guidance to the Sales team in partnering with them individually to curate compelling streamlined pitch decks, sales sheets, and other sales collateral and content in line with the Tinuiti brand. Passionate about empowering sales teams in an organization and share the core value of “Strive for Greatness.” * Strategically partner 1:1 with the Sales team and aid in creating high-quality pitch decks and templates and design visually appealing, eye-catching, on-brand presentations and collateral.* Serve as a visual problem solver, turning complex information into compelling visuals. * Comes up with new and unique ideas. Easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings. * Creates a climate in which people want to do their best.* Serve as a Tinuiti Brand Ambassador and help the sales team and other Tinuiti employees understand and utilize our brand appropriately.

Working in Orange County, and Los Angeles, I offer a full range of professional voiceover services from my own professional recording studio. I have extensive training in voice acting and have studied with some of the top coaches in the voiceover industry, including Crispin Freeman, Richard Horvitz, MaryLynn Wissner, Tom Pinto, and Debi Derryberry.Clients appreciate my timely and professional communication and easy-going demeanor. With a voice that is soothing, relatable, and lighthearted, my warm conversational delivery is perfect for commercials. My voice brings ageless flexibility to animation characters, ranging anywhere from a youthful and peppy teenager to a sultry noble-good woman.

Huntington Beach, California

In this role, I transitioned from marketing design to product development. I collaborate with the Art Director, Creative Director, and Editors to design and produce innovative, appropriate, and engaging designs across various print publications for the teachers and students. I actively volunteer to brainstorm and establish a workflow and execution for newer product video/digital elements. I provide creative, technical, and mentoring guidance to all team members and actively participate in wellness and social activity committees within the company.• Create Innovative and original designs that meet quality, timeliness, and cost expectations (within the project scope, assigned schedule, and budget items) • Take full ownership of quality, deadlines, costs, and production of assigned projects• Regularly conducting design trend and user research, as well as project-specific competitor research• Develop style guides and design samples to align with the vision and concept of the creative and editorial team while ensuring consistency across teams• Make conscious decisions about photos, illustrations, graphics, and other elements to align with the product• Perform authentic photo research and photo editing/retouching/colorizing as needed• At times, collaborate across teams to develop and design standards/guidelines/processes• Work closely with the production team to produce and deliver accurate files, sometimes meeting hundreds of deadlines over one business week.

In this position, I have ownership of all B2B marketing design. As the team quickly expands, I take on additional projects from other markets (Direct-to-School and B2C) as needed to help the rest of the department meet their goals. While executing designs for the marketing department, additional departments request my design and insight on unique design needs and brand materials.• Collaborate with project managers on all advertising concepts and campaigns• Design and production execution of marketing sales support such as catalogs, ad campaigns, brochures, website, social, presentations, email, flyers, posters, gift cards, sell sheets and forms• Create and process product images for website and outside B2B and B2C vendors• Design and handle trade show signage and assets• Manage and Maintain digital file organization structure on the server• Mentor and oversee intern training and tasks• Extend visual systems/brand guidelines for print and digital• Develop budget, storyboard, and execution of marketing video• Share design and marketing research with designers and managers

Not long after my internship with Teacher Created Materials, I was contacted to fill a new design position in their growing marketing department. While still attending college at CSULB, I collaborated with the lead designer of the department, gained real-world experience executing concepts, and managed design projects from start to finish. I started doing mostly production work to assist the team, but was quickly given my own projects to concept, collaborate, and execute from start to finish. At this point in my design career, we were just waiting for me to finish earning my BFA degree, but I was already working as a full-time designer. • Assist design and production of marketing assets: catalogs, brochures, flyers, forms, event signage, sales images• Consult with project managers on visual content• Maintain digital file organization structure

I received and verified all shipments in the warehouse for the campus art store. I also worked rush seasons for the bookstore, set up campus events such as book buy backs and graduation, and made deliveries.• Shipping and receiving of art supplies, soft goods, and textbooks• Inventory & Customer service

At Teacher Created Materials, I started a summer internship for the publishing company as a college student, excited to start working in a field I loved and studied, graphic design. This is where I first got my feet wet in this industry. I became more familiar with the production work needed to carry out design projects to meet deadlines. These projects ranged from multipage book publication edits, image research, photo correcting, and creating mockups.• Publication editing• Consult with editors on visual content• Package and archive completed projects