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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)

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.
• 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

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.

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.