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Remote

As a Freelance Digital Designer, I concept, design, and animate social media, email, website, and banner ad graphics for both GNC US and Canada.

Baltimore, Maryland

As an Art Director at Money Map Press, my primary role was to help elevate the level of creativity and design for all projects. Duties Included:• Mentored and developed designers resulting in their advancement to more senior positions• Directed designers and provided constructive feedback to help them solve issues related to visual design and layout• Presented concepts to project stakeholders• Led team creative review and brainstorm meetings• Designed video graphics packages, printed newsletters, new product logos, and banner ads• Designed and developed mobile-optimized landing pages to house sales videos

Baltimore, Maryland Area

As leader of the Art Director group for AOL’s Creative Client Services team, my primary role was to ensure that all projects met the highest standards of design and creativity. This included making certain that the team delivered projects that were on-brand, effectively communicated the client’s message, exceeded the campaign objectives, and delivered on the key performance indicators. Duties Included:• Mentored Senior Designers & Associate Art Directors• Presented concepts directly to large clients and agencies• Planned and led concept meetings and directed team members in concepting and brainstorming• Directed designers and provided constructive feedback to help them solve issues related to visual design, layout, animation, interactivity, copywriting, and UX/UI• Designed and built best-in-class HTML5 mobile and desktop ad campaigns

Baltimore, Maryland Area

As part of the Art Director group for AOL’s Creative Client Services team, my primary role was to ensure that all projects met the highest standards of design and creativity. Delivering projects that were on-brand, effectively communicated the client’s message, exceeded the campaign objectives and delivered on the key performance indicators.Duties Include:• Designed and built best-in-class HTML5 mobile and desktop ad campaigns• Presented concepts and creative reviews directly to large clients and agencies• Led concept meetings and helped team members to conceptualize and brainstorm• Worked with designers to ensure that design executions meet client goals and adhere to best practices• Provided constructive feedback and helped designers solve issues related to visual design, layout, animation, interactivity, copywriting, and UX/UI

Baltimore, Maryland

I concept, design and build performance-based digital advertisements for the Ad.com Network and AOL. This includes both desktop and mobile rich media ads.

Baltimore, Maryland

I concept, design and build performance-based digital advertisements for the Ad.com Network and AOL. This includes both desktop and mobile rich media ads.

Baltimore, Maryland

As a Digital Production Artist, I aided in the design and development of integrated advertising campaigns, created award-winning banner advertisements and developed highly effective email marketing templates.

Baltimore, Maryland

I managed the projects for the Interactive Department, which included: scheduling projects, estimating projects, ensuring quality work by testing, finding freelancers as needed, and coordinating between the account team and the designers to ensure a project's timely completion with as little stress as possible. Additionally, I educated the client team on the basics of web advertising and developed an understanding of SEO best practices.

As Senior Designer for the small web and graphic design firm, I worked with clients to discover, understand, and meet their goals, delegated responsibilities between designers to ensure the meeting of a deadline, developed professional websites for various clients using Flash, HTML, and Dreamweaver, created the production logo for Nice Guy Productions, and designed branding materials for a number of different clients.

While with RJM Engineering, I was contracted out to the Maryland Transit Administration where I organized thousands of digital and print documents into a more user-friendly system, scanned printed documents into PDF format, edited and archived PDF documents, and retrieved documents when requested.

With Johns Hopkins Hospital, I worked in the Pathology, Photography, and Graphics department where I retouched medical photography, designed medical posters, designed event posters, became familiarized with large-scale poster printing, colorized black and white graphics, and prepared images for slides.

Bs, Corporate Communications

Activities and Societies: - Alpha Chi Honors Society Member- Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Baltimore - Achieved High.

Aas, Computer Graphics And Visual Communications

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society MemberGraduated Summa Cum Laude from The Community College of Baltimore County