Sean James Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Created digital content for Nature’s Way Amazon product portfolio, Amazon A+ Pages, Amazon store, and other online retailers. Worked with Digital Manager, Brand Managers, Marketing Director and Regulatory to ensure.
• Assessed existing product assets to develop and create enhanced digital assets for Amazon A+ pages along with other digital outlets, ensured brand identity of branded assets were creatively conveyed in their respective.
• Created interim master style guides for Nature’s Way to provide to outside agencies, helping them stay on brand.
• Designed Amazon digital assets for over 100 products, resulting in increased sales Nature’s Way Amazon sales in excess of $800K.
• Helped implement and support various e-commerce campaigns: Alive!® Garden Goodness Giveaway, Amazon Summer Campaign, and Nature’s Way to Prime Day.

Bloomington, MN

• Designed and formatted social media banners, landing pages and blog images for collegiate clients. Worked with Project Managers, Creative Directors and Graphic Designers to ensure edits, layouts, revisions, and routed.
• Maintained and assisted creative team with redesign of style guides for Rasmussen College and Collegis Education.
• Assisted in creation and launch of a pilot interactive infographic projects for Rasmussen College School of Nursing using online application, Ceros.
• Conceived, illustrated and designed digital assets using established creative direction set in place to reinforce visual goals

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Created layouts, collected and delivered final packaging and other creative assets for major brands, including: Barbie®, Cabela’s®, Nickelodeon®, Transformers™, Peanuts® and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles™. Directed.
• Saved company $790K in agency costs by correcting creative assets provided by outside creative agencies so that they met required packaging specifications and online specs.
• Mastered template requirements and guidelines for console systems, including Xbox, PlayStation® and Nintendo™ that ensured zero-error tolerance policy regarding 1st-party packaging errors.
• Conceptualized and designed living online asset guide, providing resource used by all departments to stay up to date on changing requirements.
• Led biweekly task meetings, ensuring creative team met creative requests.

Eden Prairie, MN

• Designed, reviewed and approved creative materials with direction of creative manager and executives. Performed product shoots for video game peripherals in-house for use on packaging.
• Supported sales team with creative materials: mock packaging, sell sheets, registration cards, flyers, power point slides, in-store pallet displays, point of sales displays, magazine and web ads, meeting and exceeding.
• Enforced zero-error tolerance policy regarding packaging, enabling shipping date to be met and on many occasion moved up for early release.
• Designed packaging for GameMill Publishing, Inc., and Big Fish Games from supplied art assets, creating required packaging needs: amaray cases, inserts, jewel cases, tray liners, disc labels and other cross-promotional.
• Collected final and approved assets, delivering them to print vendors.
• Mocked prototype packaging for review by executive and sales team, giving valued inputs regarding perceived and actual production issues.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Established online apparel company that is growing in brand awareness and product offerings. Designed website from ground up and collaborated with e-commerce specialist to implement store-side of website. Collaborated.
• Created logo used in all aspects of branding.
• Generated brand style guide, maintaining brand consistency for in-house and out-sourced projects.
• Designed artwork for apparel, meeting or exceeding brand guidelines.
• Managed inventory, website, sales planning, photoshoots and production, keeping processes within budget and on target.
• Executed art direction on photoshoots and other promotional materials, resulting creatively impactful layouts that increased social media engagements.

Eden Prairie, MN.

• Provided sales material for marketing and sales team: sell sheets, presentation board designs, pallet displays and sales flyers for local regional stores as point of sales material for salespeople and customers.
• Researched competitor advertisements for market analysis reports for marketing director, ensuring development of creative and effective alternative marketing options against competitors.