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New York, New York, United States

New York City Metropolitan Area

Specialized in creating pre- and post-production digital design- and illustration-based social, e-commerce, and brand collateral for luxury lifestyle brands, non-profit organizations, and federal clients.• Tapped by leadership within the second month of employment to accelerate an e-commerce redesign project for a ~$200B+ revenue client to design and produce over 975 unique assets. • Streamlined pre-production processes for television campaigns by illustrating storyboards.• Collaborated with the creative team on email campaigns to promote the services of Accenture Song Production Studios. Optimized email experience for interactivity and accessibility.• Tracked, cataloged, and analyzed the social performance of assets created for Fortune 500 consumer-brand clients. Created case-study packages to present to top management.• Identified and initiated networking efforts with dozens of creatives to foster alliances and incremental business opportunities, saving the need to outsource.• Upgraded all case study decks to ensure compliance with the Accenture Song brand.

New York, United States

An interactive film-noir Macbeth experience by a UK production company in a 5-story 1930s hotel. Freelance work creating original cover spot illustrations and center spread layout for "Sleep No More" for their hotel bulletin-style playbill.

Mamaroneck, Ny

Independent gallery-style studio. Partnered with artist/owner Jill Krutick to market artwork globally.• Established brand identity and presence by ideating and implementing solutions for promotional and social media campaigns, merchandise, event planning, and gallery openings.• Multiplied organic social media following tenfold and improved website and online store engagement.• Boosted digital presence and visibility during the pandemic by launching interactive website pages, creating an Etsy storefront, sending email newsletters, and organizing virtual events.• Developed a robust cataloging system of over 500 works by designing and building a digital database.

Larchmont, New York, United States

Multi-disciplinary extracurricular art school. Taught Adobe CC Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and Animate.

Regional Northern Westchester newspaper publisher. Received New York Press Association award.

Created a dozen pieces of original cover art for Day One literary journal, a Kindle-exclusive publication.

Media publisher of health and wellness imprints. Built UI/UX publications for the iPhone/iPad and created illustrations for brand-owned fitness apps. Received First Place for company-wide design competition.

Bachelor’S Degree, Communications Design, Illustration

BFA in Communications Design, Illustration

Architecture

RISD Pre-college architecture program