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•Designed graphics and choose colors for best-in-class, award-winning products across multiple product lines, including battery-powered ride-ons, play tents, licensed bikes, trikes, and scooters.•Provided expertise on how colors and graphics will translate to multiple materials, including plastic, fabrics, and metals; communicated specific color and graphics needs to international vendors. •Owned and completed over 100 product design projects annually, juggling production art and final sample reviews with last-minute concept requests.•Collaborated with product managers to brainstorm, research and develop new products, including expansion of product line categories, and thoughtful extras to keep the Kid Trax brand evolving.•Acted as interim Product Manager managing all aspects of preparation for retail line reviews, sample coordination, and sales presentations.

•Partnered closely with other cross-functional channel teams, including web and catalog, to create both core brand and seasonal omni-channel marketing strategies. •Managed multi-tiered projects with aggressive timelines, maintaining a focus on both internal and external client customer service while reducing against budget spending up to forty percent. •Designed marketing materials including brand and custom packaging, advertisements, logos, color stories, and brand and seasonal style guides. •Specialized in designing product displays including engaging and whimsical retail environments, large-scale fixtures and award-winning product display windows.•Art directed and planned photo shoots for packaging and retail banner use. Worked closely with other teams to reduce redundancies in planning and streamline photographic processes reducing costs and increasing productivity.

• Taught introductory Graphic Design classes to summer school students ages 15–18.• Performed demonstrations of various media and digital processes and provided trouble-shooting for mechanical/digital problems.• Led students in discussions and critiques. All students left class with an understanding of the basics of graphic design fundamentals.

• Designed marketing materials including brand packaging, custom packaging, advertisements, direct mailers, web banners, logos, trade catalogs and brochures.• Reduced cost of yearly trade catalog through both negotiations with vendors, and elimination of outside labor and materials. Streamlined multiple foreign language catalogs into one version by using graphic symbols to further reduce costs.• Art directed and styled photo shoots for advertisement, website and catalog use.

• Designed toys to fit within the Manhattan Toy line, including the Nocturnimals, a line of plush animals that were featured in Parents, Real Simple and TDmonthly magazines.• Worked closely with overseas vendors to refine and budget product designs to their final product.