resume
experience
May 2021 – present
Senior Designer
TrendyMinds, Inc.
531 E Market St | Indianapolis, IN 46204 | trendyminds.com
Job Description: Lead designer for the Humana account. Providing concept development, strategy and design for multi-channel marketing campaigns and digital customer journeys.
Responsibilities include:
- utilize Figma and Sketch to create landing pages and emails
- create animated social media advertising using Adobe CC and banner snack
- develop customer experiences for virtual and in-person events
- collaborate with the HIVE, (Humana’s internal creative team) to develop digital and print marketing collateral
- advise Humana marketing team members on best practices and ideal communication techniques customized per initiative
May 2018 – Feb 2021
Creative Director
Vology
15950 Bay Vista Dr. | Clearwater, FL 33760 | vology.com
Job Description: In early 2018, Vology brought all of its advertising in-house from an agency, and needed a creative leader to provide direction for the brand going forward. In this role, I provided concept development, creative direction, brand guardianship, and design leadership for all campaigns and communications including the complete design and build of Vology’s new website launched in March 2019.
Additional responsibilities included:
- Management of marketing team and strategy
- Customer event organization, management, and promotion
- Webinar planning and promotion
- Customer communication cadence and management
- Marketing automation oversight (Salesforce & Pardot)
- Development & maintenance of project management system
- Filming, editing, and producing internal and customer-facing videos
- Management of vendors and department resources
- Oversight of social media presence
October 2017 – May 2018
Senior Creative
Experian | Clarity Services
15550 Lightwave Dr #350 | Clearwater, FL 33760 | clarityservices.com
Job Description: Partner with Marketing Director, product and marketing teams on multi-channel marketing plans and campaign concept development. Design of digital and print creative projects. Assist with content and positioning strategy for new product launches and existing product lines. Design for social media channels, website, digital sales pieces and promotional emails. Implement new branding throughout all sales materials. Ensure brand adhesion and assist with project management and organization.
October 2014 – October 2017
Art Director
Bankers Financial Corporation
11101 Roosevelt Blvd. N. | St. Petersburg, FL 33716 | bankersfinancialcorp.com
Job Description: Collaborate with Chief Marketing Officer and corporate marketing team to concept, design and produce multi-channel automated marketing campaigns. Create complete identity and branding for a new company launch (2017). Design UX friendly websites, social media marketing artwork, email campaigns and printed marketing pieces. Direct photoshoots, assist with copywriting and editing creative content. Present campaigns to clients and other staff. Create and send promotional emails using Sales Force Marketing Cloud and Constant Contact software. Develop and maintain corporate branding guide for eight business units. Mac and PC platforms
April 2001 – October 2014
Art Director
Sexton Printing | Sexton Strategic Marketing
250 Lothenbach Ave. | St. Paul, MN 55118 | sextonprinting.com
Job Description: Assist with multi-channel marketing plan development with clients, marketing, sales and creative staff. Concept, design and produce print and online creative visual materials including publications, logos, ads, brochures, websites and interactive documents. Develop corporate ID standards and maintain existing ID standards for 75+ clients as well as Sexton Printing and Strategic companies. Mac and PC platforms
education & training
2016
AIGA National Conference
Las Vegas, NV
2010-2011
“Cross-Media Communications”
“Designing for Mobile Notepads”
“Dramatically Increase Your R.O.I.”
Sexton Trendtech Seminars
2006-2009
AIGA Design Camps
AIGA Minnesota
2008
Advanced Illustrator Training
MN Science Museum
1999
Advanced Photoshop Training
Bolger Printing
1997 Graduate
Bismarck State College
Bismarck, ND
Graphic Design
software
Expert in Adobe CC
Proficient in Microsoft Office
Proficient in WordPress
Proficient in Salesforce Marketing Cloud
Proficient in Salesforce Pardot
Proficient in Constant Contact
Knowledge in Salesforce CRM
Knowledge in HTML and CSS
Knowledge in Survey Monkey
(Proficient in Macintosh and PC environments)