Design Consultant Resume Profile

ART DIRECTION / GRAPHIC/WEB DESIGNER / E-COMMERCE

Design professional who takes innovative and highly creative approaches from concept to execution for a wide range of digital and print applications. Over a decade of experience in all aspects of the creative process for digital, print, web and multimedia collaborating with copywriters, developers, vendors and project managers. Strong communicator with a team oriented approach.

Art Direction	Content Merchandising
Project Management	Digital Design
Training and Development Trend Analysis and Research	Font Manipulation User Interface Design

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Adobe Digital Suite CS6: Photoshop , Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML/CSS, MS Office Pro, Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Graphic design firm.

Design visual advertising media including posters, newspaper ads, flyers, programs, and brochures for TrueNorth Cultural Arts which produces a variety of community programs for all ages and levels.
Prepared pre-press designs for promotional large-scale printing company specializing in quick turn-around production for wide variety of clients and products.

Confidential

Creator, manufacturer, and distributor of greeting cards and related consumer products.

Confidential

Volunteer on a team of 5 for a yearly fundraiser each year increasing amount for donation by 20 .
Lead team member of corporate associate team building activity charged by upper management to foster stronger associate partnership budget of 90,000, came in under budget at 88,000 responsible for day activities, transportation, meals, night entertainment, graphic collateral and t-shirts for up to 400 people resulting in increased comrade synergy and retention.
Merchandised up to 22 independent and diverse artists' work into website for unique selections for customers which drove stronger site usage.
Optimized customer search experience by providing SEO-friendly copy that drove traffic to site.
Supported online QA team to troubleshoot function and graphic design errors and restore workability to customer experience.
Managed monthly quality review meetings with the design team resulting in consistency and parameter of the final printed product.
Review and art direct up to 22 freelancers' work for clarity and digital usability for on-line product.
Responsible for monthly meeting to present analysis of customer usage trends to the design team resulting in design team creating new products reflecting customer preferences.
Originated and implemented new workflow process between content development team and creative design teams to streamline processes and significantly decrease time to go live online by one week resulting in increased traffic and sales.

Confidential

Collaborated with six in-house artists to create products enabling customer to use their own digital photos in e-commerce application.
Initiated system to organize freelance and satellite location artist's files to make their work compatible with e-commerce site usable by end user.
Created online digital marketing assets consistent with brand guidelines.

Graphic Designer

Planned and executed greeting cards and other social expression products for various programs including seasonal, every day and Christmas box. Clients included Target, Wal-Mart, Carlton, InRythm, and SimplyAG. Produced 15 greeting cards per week with standard of 10 per week even while involved in multiple projects.
Trained 20 new associates in computer programs, finishing operations, product completion, company processes, legacy software, card product procedures, and product completion.
Selected as multiple project Graphic Studio Representative for innovative card lines oversaw and directed eight designers to ensure met requirements and deadlines.
Created artwork for products using a variety of media including paint, collage, wool, and felt and stayed current with leading trends and incorporated data into concepts and designs.
Utilized hand lettering skills to create products greeting cards / card products.

Confidential

Used Preflyt, Direct-to-Plate, finishing operations and PDF's to prepare items for print. Utilized knowledge of imaging, color correction, photo restoration and photo manipulation.
Managed files for workflow, imprint, ripping, proofing, imposition, CD writing and preparing jobs for shipping.

Confidential

Manufacturer and distributor of durable medical equipment.

Design Consultant

Redesigned order form templates for wheelchairs, power scooters and other medical products to be used by healthcare providers and retailers ordering wheelchairs, scooters, and medical products.
Established new workflow / ordering process for customers to improve accuracy and ease by using Adobe Livecyle software using interactive paperless order forms to eliminate fax machine order forms.
Invented database library and style guide of order forms / templates using Adobe Livecyle to be used by Invacare employees to create additional order forms for unique customer ordering situations.

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