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Greater New York City Area

Interdepartamental Cross-Functional Designer / Presentation Specialist / Project ManagerAd Product: Collaborated/Consulted on new products, best practices, approval processes, 1-off custom requests. Designed/Managed templates, client-facing approval decks and deliverables.Ad Sales: Presentation/Banner Design, FPO Key Art DesignMarketing: Designed/Managed Presentation templates including Product/Social/OOH/DOOH/Events mocks/comps. Designed/Managed 1-sheets, PPT Library/assets, Support emails.Product: Ad Manager Visual/UI updates in Figma

Greater New York City Area

Consulted, Designed and Delivered multimedia ads for clients across all industries for Meredith's propertiesCollaboration: Worked with Project Managers and directly with clients to consult on capabilities and best practices. Designed and delivered creative.Ad Product: Worked in Celtra to design and produce animated, interactive, responsive multimedia ad solutions.AD/Manager: Occasionally filled in as Art Director and Manager of a small team of Jr. Designers.

Greater New York City Area

Led Corporate Brand Refresh, Logo and Website RedesignCross-Department Collaboration: Met with executives, product, and division leads to establish expectations and goals for their brands, authors, and audience. Corporate Identity + Website Redesigns: Refreshed the historic ‘Sower’ mark. Led brand/identity research/redesign and implementing best practices, UX/UI on flagship site and network of B2B, PR, Division, Education, Distributor, etc. resource sites. Blog Identities + Website Redesigns: XOXO After Dark, Glommable, Off The Shelf. Delivered guidelines, launch assets, logos, social assets, and banner ad packages. XOXO traffic rose +200%. Ul Design/Consult: Brad Thor, Star Trek, Stephen King

Rockefeller Plaza, New York City

Driving revenue and maintaining brand integrity by providing quality and timely end-to-end delivery of the marketing and sales creative.Collaborating with Sales teams, brainstorming campaign strategy, advising creative capabilities, designing presentations — often requiring web mocks (banners, site takeovers/skins, interactive/rich ad units [branded canvas and Innovid]), microsites, infographics, animations, general design/production. Working with the Sales team and their agency representatives to provide live client creative — ad resizing/redesigning, conceptualization to delivery of entire campaigns (branded/co-branded), occasionally requiring copy writing and video editing.Working within the Marketing team concepting, designing and producing event assets — invitations, posters, wing/hanging banners, napkins, table tents, lanyards, itineraries, screens, step and repeats, PowerPoints, giveaways/leave-behinds.Working with many outside my immediate department operating as a 1-stop creative resource providing logo/image production, design/production consultation, PowerPoint design/production/animation, infographic concepting and design.

Greater New York City Area

Oversaw the production of presentation materials. Worked with new business, strategy, design, production and account management to create presentations and accompanying printed materials for new business pitches and proposals, client presentations and work sessions, company conferences and office shares — occasionally requiring video, photography and post production.Managed the in-house print production for new business and existing clients including Target, Microsoft, Pitney Bowes, PG&E, Washington Mutual, PepsiCo and Starbucks to name a few.Developed and maintained the company case study and client image libraries.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Responsible for maintaining the integrity of and applying the brand across the entire spectrum of company materials including banners, brochures, postcards, e-vites, stationary, business cards, decals, guides, posters, promotionals, kiosks, taxi/bus stands. Convention, trade show, event and building signage, channel and show logos.Managed and produced the new product image library — transforming raw images into ready-to-use clipped, pathed, image-adjusted, editable files for web, print and video usage. Produced an editable screen for each product capable of displaying any genre background, artist, song or show title of any of the 170+ channels adhering precisely to each of the product shots’ original perspective and lighting conditions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Oversaw the production of the agency retrospective '25 Years of Legal Branding'. Photographed and photoshopped hundreds of printed materials from their library. Created thousands of high and low resolution images from sometimes incomplete QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign files. Corrected and enhanced to ensure maximum image quality, legibility and consistency. When not working on the book worked on office and client comps. Daily production work. Searched for and retrieved files from the company AVI (Advanced Intelligent Tape) library via Retrospect.

User Experience Design

13 week, 40 hour course exploring in detail, each of the many steps in the UX process. From conception to working wireframes we produced.

Brand Identity, Creating An Image

Examined the basic principles of corporate identity, developing a clear understanding of the process of Branding Design. Emphasizing.

Typography As Language, Theory And Practice

1 month, full time residency exploring theoretical background, practicality and development of a typeface.

Bfa, Communications Arts & Design

Communication Arts is the study and exploration of the qualities, disciplines and technologies that enable us to create and communicate.