Summary
I’m a creative, enthusiastic and collaborative professional who has worked on tight, daily deadlines as well as years-long projects with multiple evolutions. I enjoy working with people from different departments and disciplines and finding the right way to visually represent their products, ideas and visions. I have experience designing and illustrating for publication, technology, video and online retail, and am comfortable juggling multiple simultaneous projects.
Experience
KIND DESIGN
Graphic Design and Operations Management: Apparel design, inventory and file-system management, workflow development, USGS map processing, marketing collateral and campaign design, shipping and receiving. 2022-Present
ALTRA RUNNING (VF OUTDOORS)
Contract Designer: Logo and iconography design for online campaign and storefront UX/UI. Trade show display concept and design. 2022.
SPARKFUN ELECTRONICS
Senior Designer: Serving both B2C and B2B functions, I maintained our brand’s visual style while designing multi-channel online campaigns, documentation, books, UI/UX, infographics, iconography, presentation templates, trade show assets and packaging, product and brand management. I also added skills in motion graphics, video editing and online storefront/ecommerce design. I designed for web, email, social platforms and advertising campaigns. I collaborated with marketing and engineering teams, interpreting technical expertise for customers of varying levels of familiarity with the products. 2013-2021.
Production Designer: In collaboration with a senior designer and working with engineering, marketing, human resources, information technology and other departments, I was responsible for print, collateral, product and retail packaging design. At this open-source electronics manufacturer, precision in language, technique and technical illustration were paramount for designing projects that were expected to be easily updated in future iterations. I produced a wide array of interdisciplinary projects both for print and digital. 2012-2013.
PRAIRIE MOUNTAIN PUBLISHING
Page Designer: On daily and weekly deadlines, selected and processed relevant photography, designed news pages for print and produced high-quality illustrations in a wide variety of styles to fit brand identities for multiple publications ranging from paper of record to irreverent alt-weekly. 2003-2012.
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign/InCopy, After Effects, Premiere, Audition, XD, Acrobat.
Collaborative tools: Figma, Canva, Sketch, WebFlow, Magento, Wrike.
Other critical business tools: Keynote and PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Amazon Seller Central, Hubspot, Squarespace.
Other skills: Project management, vendor relations, graphic design, illustration, client management, wireframing, online storefront management, user interface design, marketing campaign management, product and packaging design, team support, highly resourceful, adaptable, strategically agile and self-motivated.
Education
B.F.A., Graphic design, with a minor in studio art, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.