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United States

- Working with brands to elevate their stories, personalities, and business.- Providing services around brand, strategy, web, print, marketing, illustration, and art direction.- Founding designer on new businesses, brand refreshes, and rebrands.- Working with art directors, marketers, and dev.- Managing other freelancers on larger projects.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

- Creating engaging insight driven creative ideas for campaigns that align with the b2b/b2c brand and marketing strategies- Creating captivating assets for performance marketing campaigns, organic social media, email campaigns, landing pages and corporate documents- Utilizing the Adobe Creative Suite, and Figma- Designing landing pages for both web and app- Collaboration with product designers, developers, illustrators, motion graphics designers, social media coordinators, digital/growth/email marketing coordinators, sales, and executive leadership- Responsible for conference assets such as booths, banners, brochures, and branded materials such as apparel, stickers, and accessories- Refining Niche’s visual identity across all marketing and communications touch points- Founder of the Niche Diversity Initiative to promote diversity in the Niche community and create an inclusive work environment for the growing company- Current lead designer on the Direct Admissions program involving creative assets for digital and print

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities include: Original surface design and hand-illustrated graphics that include and are not limited to products such as mens/womens/kids apparel, woven patterns created in Photoshop, Illustrator or DesignPro, drinkware, packaging, embroidered patches, stickers, hats, enamel pins, blankets, bandanas, and notebooks. CADing multiple colorways with seasonal core color palette. Market research of trends in all-over prints and graphics. Collaboration and support with Senior Designer, men’s and women’s apparel designers, and industrial designers. Point contact liason for international apparel manufacturers in Turkey and China. Production of techpacks and packaged files to be sent to international manufacturers. Organizing and revising incoming strike-offs. UPC, Care Content, Heat Transfer label generation. Photoshop product mock-ups. Apparel and accessories concepts for spring and fall collections delivered to product team,wholesale team, and company founder.

Tokyo, Japan

Responsibilities included: Powerpoint presentation design with asset compilation, and motion graphic video created for the Global Partnership Summit of 2017 in New Delhi, India.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Graphic And Interactive Design

High School Diploma, Multi-Media Major (6-8) And Visul Arts Major (9-12)