Whether you’re looking for marketing, graphic design, illustration, product packaging or visual communications for social media, I have years of experience and the creative talent to interpret your vision and complete your project efficiently and with some fun thrown in!

EDUCATION

BFA – The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SKILLS

Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Figma, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Zoho CRM, Shopify & Print On Demand

EXPERIENCE

Perkins&Will: Marketing Manager and Creative Designer – currently working here.

Participate in business development by preparing marketing and business proposals for the 2nd largest architectural firm in the world. Design and layout quarterly digital magazine, provide graphic design expertise, and create imagery used for projects, media, and publications to support the firm. Developed style sheets and graphic consistency to keep the brand across multiple mediums including both web and print. Maintain organization of all firms’s marketing collateral including all imagery, proposals, reports, magazine articles, presentations, and publications.

Visual Designer: Microsoft Corporation – 2022

Work with Art Director to curate visual design assets, as well as build a library of images including photography, vector illustrations and icons for a new social media app being developed.

Visual Designer & Illustrator: Patagonia Action Works / Catchafire ongoing freelancer

Freelance designer and illustrator for various environmental non-profits. Created illustrations for posters, logos, social media assets as well as national park graphics.

Visual Designer & Illustrator: Shopify E-Commerce Store, Bainbridge Mercantile – 2012-21

Digital Designer for a consumer gift products company which has international wholesale distribution, as well as online retail. Responsible for all aspects of design including product design, email sales campaigns, printed catalogs, postcards, brochures and web design.

Icon Designer: Allovus – 2009-11

Icon designer and production artist for various Microsoft icons including Bing weather icons. Worked collaboratively with project managers at Microsoft on several MS applications such as: Windows, Visio, Office, SQL, and Word.

Illustrator: ABCNews.com – 1999 – 2000

Graphic designer, Illustrator, and Photo Editor for the Science Department.

Digital Designer: Multicom Publishing – 1996-99

Interface Designer and Illustrator for Better Homes and Gardens and Home Depot Corp.

Graphic Designer: Pinnacle Post  – 2004-6

Assistant Designer for the television show Bill Nye the Science Guy.