Visual Design and Digital Management

ELIZABETH HOUSTON

Visual Design / Digital Management

email: *********.*******@*****.***

Design Portfolio: herdesigns.carbonmade.com

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/elizabethhouston

BIO

Successfully organize, manage and produce multiple projects while keeping

deadlines, easily collaborate with creative teams, create solutions to challenges to ensure all client’s needs are being met, and design for best user experience.

EXPERIENCE

Visual Designer

HarperCollins Publishers; Freelance

2011-Present

• Work across teams to create successful marketing campaigns

• Conceptualize, design assets, and code (html and css) for: buy, sweepstakes, and landing pages; email blasts and mobile newsletters

• Design images for all social media platforms, global ads for new products, branding, marketing and promotional materials for print and web; video sales cards: title, headers and one-thirds

• Create, code and update content for EpicReads.com, an online social community for teens; design digital assets, advertising and promotions

Integrated Designer

ABC Carpet & Home; Freelance

2016

• Collaborated with Executives to produce and increase Holiday 2016 sales

• Created digital assets for abchome.com - uploaded into Magento (CMS)

• Assisted with abchome.com mobile redesign for optimization

• Designed and coded email blasts

• Created images for social media, advertising, promotions and store signage

Mobile Designer

Rolling Stone Magazine; Freelance

2016

• Collaborated with Art Directors to recreate the signature style of Rolling Stone Magazine, ensuring easy readability on mobile devices

• Edited copy, cropped and uploaded photos into Zinio Pro (CMS)

Digital Designer & Web Content Producer

Random House Publishing; Freelance

2010-2011

• Coordinated advertising with New Media Marketing department

• Designed and coded mobile sites, email blasts, e-newsletters

• Produced web content updates for RandomHouseKids.com

• Wrote marketing copy for advertising; edited website and newsletter copy

EDUCATION

Santa Fe College

Graphic Design, 2004

SKILLS

Design Software: Adobe Creative Suite 6 & CC: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Fireworks; Dreamweaver, Sketch, Acrobat X Pro; Ceros, Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Powerpoint, Excel

CMS: Wordpress, Magento, Zinio Pro, FileMaker Pro

Web Development: html, css, UI/UX design trends; SFTP

Print: digital and large format, pre-press and post production

Photography: Digital & Film; photo editing and manipulation, video editing

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