SANDY RIOPEL

Offering **+ years’ experience in graphic design, photography, videography, editing, front-end development, audio, voice-overs, creative direction, and leadership. MAIL

ad4w31@r.postjobfree.com

PHONE

910-***-****

ADDRESS

University Place, WA

LINKEDIN

linkedin.com/in/lucki777

MY WORK

sandyriopel.com

EXPERTISE

Administration

Art Direction

Audio Editing/Recording

Advertising/Marketing/SEO

Brand Identity

Content Creation

Copywriting

Frontend Development

Graphic Design

Photography

Podcast

Product Design (UX/UI)

Product Management

Web Design

Video Editing/Production

HARD SKILLS

Adobe Express

Asana

ChatGPT

DaVinci Resolve

Figma

HTML/CSS/PHP

Google Suite

Illustrator

InDesign

MailChimp

Microsoft Office

Midjourney

Monday

Notion

OBS Studio

Photoshop

Shopify/Printify

Spotify

StreamYard

WordPress

SOFT SKILLS

Critical Thinking

Emotional Intelligence

Flexible

Negotiation

Organization

Problem-Solving

Responsibility

Strategy

Teamwork

EXPERIENCE

LUCKI MEDIA / University Place, WA

Founder, Creative/Executive Director

lucki.us

2009—Present

Setting the direction for the team by defining project requirements, product concepts, while organizing the creative/functional processes between developers and the clients. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Defined project expectations (budget/resources)

• Successfully created brand identities through research and exploration

• Managed team members for improved SEO via social media, backlinks, websites, and paid advertising

• Organized projects with on-time project tracking with stakeholder approval

• Lead the marketing team for A/B testing for optimal performance.

• Directed the dev team with information/assets required for production.

• Led the team to create innovative ideas to create ads that convert traffic to sales.

• Groomed team leaders to lead projects and other staff members by offering instruction/guidance for company growth and scalability UMPQUA BANK / University Place, WA

Graphic Artist

umpquabank.com

June 2023—December 2023

Created assets for the bank’s rebrand and helped shape the visual identity for the business and its affiliates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Helped re-designed the corporate brand and style guide.

• Designed brand identity materials for print and digital applications such as social media, websites, fillable forms, signage, postcards, booth designs, awards and PPT Presentations.

• Designed logo concepts for a charitable organization within the network.

• Worked with InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator for mockups and layouts.

• Designed SWAG products for the company store.

SCORPIO MOON INTUITION / University Place, WA

YouTube Creator

scorpiomoonintuition.com

December 2018—Present

As a YouTube influencer with over 26k subscribers, I provided daily videos to help people heal themselves through “self-love” concepts. The channel provided me with the opportunity to market niche products to the audience through a worldwide network. RESPONSIBILITIES

• Produced videos live using OBS Studio and Stream Yard technologies.

• Produced short and long form videos to include graphics, photography, audio & video.

• Created intro/outro videos using DaVinci Resolve for postproduction work.

• Created keyword titles, thumbnail artwork using Tube Buddy/Chat GPT/Midjourney

• Write copy for all videos and distributed them to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Amazon Audible, iHeartRadio, Google Podcast, YouTube Podcast, Spotify, Kindle Direct Publishing

• SEO optimized videos/copywriting for blogs and social media posts such as Instagram reels, Instagram square post, Instagram story, Facebook post FOXY TEA / SMI BEAUTY & BATH / University Place, WA Founder, Director

foxyteas.com

smibeautyandbath.com

Built the visual identity and brand for FOXY TEA, a registered trademark company and SMI Beauty & Bath by defining the business with re-focused values on health and gifting concepts. EDUCATION

Campbell University

Buies Creek, NC

Bachelor of Arts

Major Graphic Design

Minor Computer Science

2002-2004

2017—Present

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Created brand and print collateral such as packaging materials, promotional stickers, inserts, rubber stamps, product labels, social media banners and more.

• Managed team members for improved SEO via social media, backlinks, websites, and paid advertising

• Research concepts for the copywriter to create articles for specific products.

• Collect emails from Facebook and Social Media campaigns for remarketing.

• Directed, designed, and optimized video and graphic ads to convert traffic to sales using MailChimp and Adobe Express through creative concepts from storyboarding.

• Researched and developed beauty, bath, tea products.

• Photographed and edited product images for e-commerce/ads/collateral CAMBER CORPORATION (Huntington Ingalls Industries) / Fayetteville, NC Senior Graphic Artist

hii.com

2005—2009

Produced DL courseware (distance-learning) custom flash files for JFKSWC (John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Created flash animations and 3d using Adobe Flash/.asp

• Synchronized English and other foreign languages in Adobe Flash

• Produced video intros using Adobe After Effects

• Designed poster artwork for each courseware produced.

• Successfully led the design team for Terrorist Awareness Course (TAC)

• Coordinated with SME (Subject-Matter-Experts) on course materials and found security issues with sensitive intelligence data.

• Understand client requests to produce works for realistic scenario-based training programs (18E, 18C, 37F (Psychological Operations), S7 (Simulation Course)

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