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Los Angeles, California, United States

• Provided strategy to improve design and functionality (UX). Created wireframes illustrating user flows. Applied existing design systems to create polished UI mockups. Launched many new web products.• Provided reliable and timely support for incoming digital help requests as CPADigital—shortening turnaround time for web posting and providing customer service internally.• Together with the leadership, brought many vendor design and dev projects in house.• Collaborated, brainstormed, and strategized with multiple teams on a wide range of materials that included web pages, interactive collateral, display ads, social media content, and email.• Video production, editing, visual design, subtitling.• Translation production across digital products in English | Español | 中文 (中国)• Event-designed the Fifth Anniversary including interactions, invitations, environmental signage, screens, branded giveaways, videos, etc.

Menlo Park, California, United States

• Led the visual strategy and design of branding, storytelling, marketing, and advertising. • Replaced the brand book and prior branding with an overhauled new Design System across all products.• Designed wireframes, UX, user paths, and user interface for talisbio.com.• Created original assets, illustrations, and templates utilized for web, mobile, ads, email, and social media.

Cupertino, California, United States

• Worked as a studio artist for APPLE in Cupertino, CA.• Created customer-facing interfaces UI and screens a wide range of devices and operating systems: computers, tablets, phones, watches, etc.• Worked globally by responding to localization, accessibility, translation, and cultural considerations.

San Francisco, Ca

• Freelanced full-time for diverse clients, from multinational technology companies to local nonprofits.• Broad experience developing creative solutions in a variety of mediums including responsive websites, mobile, interfaces, UX, emails, ad campaigns, event materials, brand identity, marketing and communications collateral, digital and web media, data visualizations, presentations, logos, and icons.• Built thoughtful, story-driven web content; brought beautiful user experiences to market.• User research, ideation, created sketches, wireframes, prototyped new layouts and features, visual design mockups, interaction design, assets and documentation for proper implementation.• Expert understanding of visual design principles, including layout, typography, imagery, illustration, color, layout, and grid systems​.• Remain informed of emerging industry trends and best practices; evaluated analytical data and provided strategic recommendations.

San Francisco, Ca

• Art Directed hundreds of digital materials YOY like landing pages, annual reports, emails, social, campaigns, events.• Directed the implementation of the brand style guide across all marketing and communications.• Exceptional product management: trafficked, budgeted, and scheduled launches, vendors, and publishing.• Co-presented "Brandstorms" with the CMO, a series of interactive design workshops and stakeholder interviews across the user network.• Created new channels of storytelling: produced and co-created the Student Voices Podcast.

Oakland, Ca

• UX design, from requirements to design to deployment• Design web pages and create digital content• Direct internal departments and 23 offices in content authoring via CMS• Manage any major builds or bug fixes with Drupal backend developer• Collaborate with IT to manage Salesforce DB integration

4 Times Square, New York, Ny

• Designed and shared homepage daily news content about Vogue, GQ, Wired, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker for condenast.com, a 2013 Webby Award Nominee and Gold Pixel Winner• Managed intranet (serving 5K+ employees) with daily social posts of my design, facilitating communications across 30 brands• Aggregated links, graphics, and copy edited “Coverlines,” a daily email and blog post of brand headlines from external news media• Collaborated with IT on UX and product design for intranet, including the 2013 redesign• Designed and executed short videos to run on Condé Nast internal displays to promote company initiatives, brand events, and special announcements• Produced a variety of Corporate Communications promotions including animated web graphics for The New York Times, lobby installation gallery walks, oversized lobby banners, and quarterly report for executives• Supported executive team with their design and technology needs• Ran the NYC Triathlon with Team Condé Nast to personally raise $3K for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

New York, Ny

• Agency experience: interactive and mobile advertising design. • Branding/advertising for clients like VH1, LG, Axe, and Complex.

Washington Dc

• Designed Chemical & Engineering News, the preeminent weekly chemistry and science magazine.• Art directed photo shoots, illustrations, covers, and pages. • Supervised two designers and a staff artist.• Coordinated production schedules, budgets, and reviewed cost issues for the art department.• Processed art for print and web; supervised color correction and workflow of production and imaging. • Photo research, purchase illustrations, manage accounts with photographers, illustrators, stock and news vendors.• Managed publication style guide. Authored smart styles, templates, libraries, guides.• Created data visualizations, infographics, pies, and charts.• Designed e-blasts, e-reader versions, and web-exclusive content.

Silver Spring, Md

• Manage monthly music magazine’s page production. Design features, CD reviews, and columns. Created master pages, design templates, and smart libraries.• Supervised two production assistants and print schedule.• Designed ads for JazzTimes and advertiser make-up ads. • Created graphics and banners for jazztimes.com.

Columbia, Md

• Product photography and styling of photo shoots• Managing and formatting product photography for web and distribution

Master Of Fine Arts, Design & Technology (Ux)

• Studied user experience, web and app design/development, live streaming, video and audio production, new media arts, social and mobile.

Bachelor Of Science, Media Art & Design

• Liberal arts education majoring in Media Art & Design with a Visual Design concentration and Art History minor. • Studied internet.