Creative UI/UX & Graphic Designer with 10+ Years Experience

KYRA KAUSCHEL

San Antonio, Texas m: 512-***-**** ****@**********.*** LinkedIn Website

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Creative, people-oriented UI/UX and Graphic Designer with 10 years of experience in producing high quality aesthetic deliverables based on user-centered design principles. Possess a solid foundation in website design and coding, video animation, social media graphics, landing pages, and digital flyers which adhere to brand identity and industry standards. Skillset to produce engaging presentations, research market trends, and manage key projects. Outstanding communicator able to collect stakeholder and user requirements before translating them into minimally designed visual assets.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Graphic & UX/UI Design

• Usability Best Practices

• Project Management

• Agile Methodology

• Animation/Presentation Design

• Website Coding & Design

• SEO Best Practices

• Client Relations

• Content Management Systems

• Standards Compliance

• Task Prioritization

• Creative Thinking

EXPERIENCE AND IMPACT

NRG, SAN ANTONIO, TX, AUGUST 2023 TO PRESENT

SENIOR VISUAL DESIGNER

• Demonstrate expertise in all areas of digital design, including web graphics, social media graphics, landing page design, and email design.

• Collaborate on the migration and organization of the entire internal shared file system to Adobe DAM.

• Ideate, design, deploy, and maintain a wide array of web pages such as landing, informational, and lead generating with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

• Utilize the full Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS, MS Office, and Figma to perform daily tasks related to graphic and web design.

• Participate in diverse design projects, using various software programs to visualize and develop innovative graphic designs that meet business goals.

• Obtain input from managers to ensure that designs meet organizational standards and brand expectations, express ideas clearly, and represent the company appropriately.

• Conduct brainstorming sessions with multiple teams to plan materials that may include web pages, signage, presentations, programming collateral, internal communications, newsletters, and marketing materials. SOUTHERN ALABAMA POWER, SAN ANTONIO, TX, (PT) FEBRUARY 2023 TO February 2024 GRAPHIC DESIGNER

• Ideate and produce dynamic print designs for flyers, door tags, postcards, booth/event collateral, packaging, whitepapers, documents.

• Provide engaging digital designs consisting of email design/code, web graphics, presentation designs, social media graphics, mobile ads, and digital ads.

• Conceptualize, design, and present comprehensive storyboards and vibrant animations for APC products and services.

• Carry out the migration of internal sites from an outdated system to SharePoint Online sites to improve performance and graphics quality.

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• Developed concepts by hand or with software, and execute original content by determining the ideal usage of color, text, font style, imagery, and layout.

• Manage the design and uploading process for all project materials, based on best practices for using a content management system.

MOON BABY CREATIVE, SAN ANTONIO, TX, MAY 2008 TO PRESENT FREELANCE WEB & GRAPHIC DESIGNER

• Work closely with clients such as WebHead, iGraphx, IronBelly, City Light Church, AppLovin, RippleShot, and HomeLending Financial, throughout each project.

• Identify and assess client requirements in order to properly design and code websites using HTML/CSS and JS along with landing pages and application UI/UX.

• Create both print and digital designs according to client specifications, including door tags, postcards, packaging, whitepapers, business cards, social media graphics, mobile ads, and digital ads.

• Produce a broad range of unique game and multimedia designs which involves creating application, game, and UI designs, storyboards, and animations in addition to reviewing and editing video.

• Configure, deploy, support, and train clients on utilizing content management systems, such as WordPress.

HUMANA, SAN ANTONIO, TX, FEBRUARY 2022 TO OCTOBER 2022 GRAPHIC DESIGNER II

• Spearheaded the design and delivery of innovative print and digital materials, including direct mail, flyers, posters, landing pages, and emails.

• Prepared and tested HTML emails using Litmus and Acoustic and built landing pages and digital flyers with HTML/CSS while ensuring compliance with Humana brand guidelines. UTSA, SAN ANTONIO, TX, DECEMBER 2020 TO JANUARY 2022 WEB DESIGNER

• Originated diverse web pages in accordance with UTSA branding guidelines and stakeholder requirements.

• Managed graphic design requests, such as icons and banners and coached users on editing/updating

(CMS) websites, while maintaining adherence WCAG, Section 508 Web Accessibility guidelines. SEMPER VALENS, SAN ANTONIO, TX, JULY 2020 TO DECEMBER 2020 WEB DESIGNER

• Visualized, developed, and launched an internal SharePoint Online (SPO) website, facilitated SPO training sessions, and provided support for internal users. USAA, SAN ANTONIO, TX, JULY 2018 TO JULY 2020

GRAPHIC DESIGNER / PRESENTATION DESIGNER

• Prepared unique presentations for use by internal executives and external visitors, created charts and graphs, and drafted and published documents to internal CMS (PDFs, Xls, .ppt, .docs).

• Created original training materials, job aids, handbooks, posters, flyers, and internal websites and Wikis.

• Produced lively animation as well as reviewed, assessed, and edited videos. ACHIEVECARD, AUSTIN, TX, DECEMBER 2012 TO JANUARY 2016 GRAPHIC DESIGNER

• Built static web banners, web pages, and print materials as well as coded web/mobile pages for existing sites and scripted html emails.

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PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

USAA, SAN ANTONIO, TX, AUGUST 2014 TO MAY 2015 CREATIVE DESIGNER PMG, AUSTIN, TX, MARCH 2011 TO FEBRUARY 2013 CREATIVE DESIGNER WORKPLACE ANSWERS, AUSTIN, TX, AUGUST 2010 TO MARCH 2011 GRAPHIC DESIGNER INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS, AUSTIN, TX, MAY 2007 TO MAY 2008 WEBMASTER/ASSISTANT THE COLERE GROUP, AUSTIN, TX, MAY 2005 TO MAY 2007 LEAD WEB DESIGNER TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

• inVision

• HTML/HTML5 CSS/CSS3

• Bootstrap

• JavaScript/jQuery

• WordPress

• Plesk

• cPanel FTP (WS_FTP &

WinSCP)

• Content Management

Systems (CMS)

• MS Office Suite

• SharePoint/SharePoint

Online

• Figma

• Cascade CMS

• Litmus

• MailChimp

• Acoustic

• Eloqua

• Unity

• Confluence

• Adobe Experience

Manager (AEM)

• Adobe Creative Suite

• Google Analytics

EDUCATION

MEDIA ARTS AND ANIMATION, 2010

The Art Institute of Austin, Austin, TX

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