Presentation Designer

John McKearney

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Experience

SENIOR VISUAL MEDIA SPECIALIST, SMITH & NEPHEW, ANDOVER MA JULY 2016-PRESENT In my role at Smith & Nephew's as senior visual designer, my day-to-day tasks consist of creating visually engaging, innovative and functional presentations using PowerPoint & Photoshop. Some ending up being video productions adding Camtasia to the mix to get a final deliverable. My ability to bring Smith & Nephew's vision and concepts to life are not only welcomed, but celebrated within the company. One of the key aspects of my role is a thorough understanding of the right balance between business, design and what the employees of the company need, to get there ideas across to our potential customers, plus serving our brand’s purpose, business missions and information to our customers. I single handedly support the entire company in their endeavors to get the correct message to potential and existing clients. As the visual designer, my responsibilities include areas of design such as typography, iconography, color, space and texture. I use my knowledge, expertise and skills in all these fields to help our employees successfully navigate and become comfortable with our products, to then share and promote to our customers. In-charge of creating all presentations, webinars, trade show rolling booth kiosks, video elements for our web site and YouTube site, and all aspects of Smith & Nephew's yearly Customer Conference, that attracted well-over 800 customers this past year in January of 2020. In charge of the creation of all PowerPoint presentations. Create, update and design all templates, all presentations and all graphics for new campaigns and existing presentations for all departments within Smith & Nephew worldwide. My secondary responsibilities consist of creating and maintaining all “special projects” while working closely with the VP of Marketing & Communications.

COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST, PUTNAM INVESTMENTS, BOSTON MA OCT 2013-JULY 2016 Working within Putnam’s internal communications group. In charge of the creation of all PowerPoint, KeyNote and Slide Rocket presentations. Create, update and design all templates, all presentations (including interactive PowerPoint) and iPad related presentations for Retail, Corporate, International/Institutional and Retirement departments. Secondary responsibilities consist of working within a team of designers to assist in creating all marketing and sales collateral for Putnam, utilizing Adobe Creative Suite. MULTIMEDIA MANAGER, AUTHORIA, WALTHAM MA SEPT 2011-OCT 2013 Managed an internal department consisting of two designers and one website developer for software company specializing in Human Resources product for sale to large corporations world-wide. In charge of leading multimedia team in creating all marketing collateral, interactive CDs and all PowerPoint presentations. In charge of designing and working with web site developer within the team, to keep company website fresh and up-to-date. MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER, THINK NEW IDEAS, BOSTON MA SEPT 2010-SEPT 2011 Presentation/Multimedia designer in the PowerPoint/Multimedia department. Created multi-media CDs using Flash and Director and PowerPoint presentations for clients that included Gillette, Boston Scientific, EMC, Fidelity, Putnam Investments, Boston Red Sox & New England Patriots, to name just a few of THINK's key accounts. Education

Massachusetts College of Art — BFA, 2010