Creative, Experienced, Designer. Efficient, Strategic, Inventive. Happy, Collaborative, Friendly.
Work Experience
Creative Director
West Marietta Cooperative Preschool - Marietta, GA | February 2023 to Present
- Responsible for branding, curriculum layout and design creating supporting education tools.
- Manages templates for parent communications and new enrollment processes.
- Creates strategy and design for activity development for new STEM program as well as social media marketing.
Senior Graphic Designer
Boys and Girls Club of America - Remote Atlanta, GA | December 2021 to January 2023
- In this position our team supports the organization National and Regional Conferences, youth programming and internal education communications.
- Projects range from event signage, branding, power point presentations, interactive documents, and maintaining consistent branding standards.
Graphic Designer/Digital Specialist
Best of Show - Remote | July 2015 to August 2020
- Branding and standards management to ensure brands stay within guidelines after going to apparel and accessory market.
- Providing social media support, trade show marketing and digital designs that support events and advertising.
- Advertising project manager for trade shows and showroom vendors.
Art director/Graphic Designer
Shine Design Studios - Marietta, GA | July 2008 to April 2015
- Art director/graphic designer. Working directly with clients and entrepreneurs on projects such as branding, human resources interactive collateral, book design/publishing, signage, traveling art exhibits, and anything else you can imagine helping businesses communicate their messages beautifully and effectively.
- Responsible for all studio sales, project/budget management, client satisfaction, concept presentations, production, vendor quotes and execution for the quality completion of each challenge and again with a focus on building client relationships and overall happiness.
Creative Director/Project Management and Pre-Press Production Coordinator
Sunbelt Printing and Graphics - Marietta, GA | July 2004 to August 2008
- Responsible for the design team and production of print and marketing projects for a vast array of clients such as: AT&T, Coke, Chick Fil-A, Georgia Cotton Commission, Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Just for Fun, Strongman International, WellStar Health Systems, And Zep.
- Duties also included working directly with clients to gauge project expectations and results with a focus on building client relationships and overall happiness.
Senior Graphic Designer
United Parcel Service - Atlanta, GA | June 1998 to July 2004
- For the employee communications division for corporate headquarters.
- Responsible for creative design and layout solutions, maintaining branding standards, art direction for illustration and photography, pre-press production, press checks and vendor and budget management.
- Supporting internal management teams to communicate to an array of 350,000 employees worldwide.
Skills
Layout and design, building brand guidelines, concept development, time management, project management, pre-press printing production, client and team relationship building.
Software
Adobe Creative Suite- InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, teams. Adobe Acrobat Pro - Interactive document programming. Basecamp, Slack, Workamajig and Asana. Currently learning Figma, and Adobe Captivate.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design
Savannah College of Art and Design - Savannah, GA
Associate in Advertising and Commercial Art
Central Piedmont Community College - Charlotte, NC