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Carson City, Nv, Us

Carson City, Nevada

• Supervise a team of award winning professionals to ensure the timely delivery of effective advertising layouts in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment.• Identify training needs and manage annual performance agreements for team members to create professional growth opportunities aligned with the business plan.• Research, strategize, and implement workflow process improvements to increase efficiency and profitability. • Communicate with Ad Directors and Account Managers on a regular basis to remove workflow hurdles and bottlenecks.• Identify project scope with publishers, match tasks with appropriately skilled designers, communicate project requirements, and monitor the quality and timeliness of deliverables.• Participate in monthly cross-property team meetings so that initiatives are implemented in parallel with other design teams within Swift.• Provide training workshops on a wide variety of design topics, best practices, and workflow processes.

Carson City, Nevada

• Evaluated skill levels, provided critical feedback, and tracked development of an award winning team of graphic artists.• Implemented a company-wide ‘Effective Advertising Initiative’ designed to increase client retention by educating account managers and designers regarding the fundamental principles of effective advertising.• As a result of the Effective Advertising Initiative, Swift’s percentage of effective ads grew from 26% in April 2014 at the launch of the initiative to 53% for Dec 2015.• Oversaw a wide variety of specialty and seasonal print products .

Carson City, Nevada

• Lead a creative team to service external publications outsourcing their advertising production.• Managed the execution of a high volume of design tasks by maintaining constant communication regarding project scope, expectations, and deadlines with various stakeholders while safeguarding the profitability, quality, and timeliness of deliverables.• Implemented an improved cost-saving workflow using the web-based project management application BaseCamp.• Designed beautiful and effective advertising campaigns, proposals, and flyers.

Carson City, Nevada

• Worked closely with a team of Account Managers to ensure daily deadlines were met by monitoring the production queue and safeguarding the quality and timeliness of ad builds sent to proof.• Solved day to day issues in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment for Publishers, Advertising Directors, Account Managers and Press Operators while proving an exemplary level of customer service.• Monitored customer satisfaction through direct client contact.• Implemented a specialized production workflow to improve service levels to Swift’s major Real Estate clients. Results were dramatically increased revenue and customer satisfaction which allowed Swift to launch a number of glossy real estate magazines to serve high end Colorado resort markets.

Carson City, Nevada

• Collaborated with sales people to create award winning campaigns targeted towards new accounts as well as refreshing campaigns for existing accounts.• Coordinated page layout between sales, production and editorial teams for a variety of Swift publications.

South Lake Tahoe, California

• Designed and launched a variety of web sites for small businesses that provided advanced functions such as payment processing, online vendor registration, and blog publishing.• Managed PPC online banner and Google AdWords campaigns and provided ongoing SEO support.• Designed a startup niche publication named the ‘Tahoe Business Monitor’ and developed a cloud-based telecommunication workflow for the editorial team using tools such InDesign, InCopy, Dropbox, WebDAV, and Skype to facilitate remote collaboration.

South Lake Tahoe, California

• Coordinated with account reps, clients, production artists, and press operators to ensure deadlines were met in a timely manner.• Designed ad campaigns, marketing material, and various publication assets including the cover of the award winning weekly arts and entertainment publication ‘Lake Tahoe Action’.

Scotsdale, Arizona

• Worked directly with painters, gallery owners, and publishers to create stunning fine art reproductions using an advanced image capture and wide gamut printing process.• Developed a “3D Image Capture” process that more realistically captures and reproduces the shadow and highlight detail of thickly textured ‘impasto’ paintings.

South Lake Tahoe, California

• Dealt a wide variety of table games including blackjack, roulette, craps, poker, etc.• Provided top notch hospitality and customer service.• Strictly adhered to internal procedures as well as Nevada gaming laws.