Profile
Resourceful and innovative Designer, highly skilled in a wide array of print design with a strong background in social media and video. Talent for designing engaging content and a keen eye for detail. Highly organized with great people skills, and able to build and maintain strong relationships within the team and community at large.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
Web Experience
Lead and co-ordinate multidisciplinary teams/sub-contractors of 3 to 5 to develop over 150 web site projects with budgets from $5k to $150,000k.
• Delivered Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 85% of clients experienced a traffic increase of 35%, 24 clients improved from 7 page google rank to first page.
• Created websites with capacity and interactivity to create quality custom/template websites that are cross browser friendly, with quick load times and web presence within time lines
• Understand client’s business needs, strategies, goals and user requirements, translate customer’s vision into web reality, to ensure final product has the look and feel that the customer desires
• Develop web site architecture and determine hardware and software requirements
• Provide training to a diverse client base with non-technical backgrounds.
• Produce/negotiate quotes with customers, work within a variety of client’s budgets while reducing development/maintenance costs for employer.
• Setting up of client hosting, email and statistics for client web sites.
• Websites built with secure e-commerce functionality, site contained map locators, flash intros, social media accessible, and W3c standards.
Graphic Experience
Designed logo and print products including brochures, business cards, thank you cards, door hangers, customized letter heads, faxes, stationery etc.
• Consult with clients to establish the overall look, graphic elements and content of communications materials in order to meet their needs
• Determine medium best suited to produce desired visual effect and the most appropriate vehicle for communication
• Developed the graphic elements that meet the clients’ objectives
• Prepare sketches, layouts and graphic elements of the subjects to be rendered using traditional tools, multimedia software and image processing, layout and design software.
• Estimate cost of materials and time to complete graphic design
• Produce 2-D and 3-D animated drawings or computer illustrations
• Develop and produce realistic or representational sketches and final illustrations, by hand or using computer assisted design (CAD) software, for printed materials such as books, magazines, packaging, greeting cards, stationery, etc.
Video Experience
News photographer and editor for in-house and on location stories.
• Editing feature stories, promos, teases, headlines.
• Assigning edit jobs for daily rundown.
• Shooter for daily stories, dramatizations, and interviews
• Broadcast Designer for CATV