Qualifications

• Known for strong outstanding ability to translate client requirements into creative designs

• Recognized for an unmatched ability to learn quickly and think creatively

• Strong audience tailored written and verbal communication skills

• Proven ability to work well both independently and among peers - within and leading teams

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Professional level expertise in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, Revit Work History

RPM Advertising - Production Artist - Chicago IL

• Fall 2015 through current

• Play a key supporting design role with senior Art Directors and Copywriters – from team brainstorming and conceptualization, to creation of mockups through to publicized media

• Design advertising for multi-media print and web including promotional logos, inserts, direct mail, billboards, bus/train wraps, magazines, annual reports, web banners, Facebook covers, Pandora statics, e-blasts, apparel designs, etc...

• Ability to manage larger long-term projects from inception to delivery while continually producing volumes of daily smaller project campaigns – all on extremely tight deadlines

• Art design awarded as the primary advertisement for the Chicago Public Library Carl Sandburg Literary Dinner campaign

• Demonstrate the capability to learn all disciplines of advertising including digital, social, print and TV Ability to think visually for real-time creative results J&S Enterprises - Graphic Artist - Palatine IL

• Summer 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015

• Designed and performed/installed advertising artwork to various business media

(i.e. vehicles, windows, signs, clothing, documents) and locales Education

University: University of Illinois. August 2011 through May 2015 Champaign/Urbana, IL

Major: Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Studies 1 of only 117 graduates in the 2015 University of Illinois Architectural Studies program High School: Mercer County High School. August 2007 through May 2011 Harrodsburg, KY

Major: College Preparatory with 3.82 GPA

1 of only 8 Kentucky Commonwealth Diploma recipients Joseph E. Blau Jr.

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