SUMMARY:

• An - winning Interactive Design professional with over 15 years of experience in analyzing and collaborating with stakeholders to translate brand strategy and targets into creative and unique art to retain buyers.
• Able to accurately identify customer needs, propose solutions and negotiate services to address those needs while successfully closing the business.
• Successfully designed over 9,000 logos, brochures, graphics, websites, and indoor & outdoor displays while advancing corporate branding and branding identity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Visual Design Skills: Illustrator (Logo Design & CAD files) | Photoshop (Photo Imaging & Special Effects) | InDesign (art & copy layouts) | Web Hosting (DNS, FTP) | Database (E-commerce & blog) | Web Design (HTML5 & CMS, CSS3, WordPress) | UX & UI Experience (Usability Testing & Focus Groups) | Video Production (Filming and Editing) | Edge Animate (Interactive E-learning) | Photography | After Effects | Premiere | Social Medias (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Flicker) | E-marketing (Newsletter Design) | Muse & Dreamweaver (Web design & development) | Microsoft Word| PowerPoint | Excel | Share Point Framework 10 and 13 | SEO, PHP, JavaScript, JSON and Database Development | 3rd party APIs, tools, and functionality (i.e. Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Consultant | Sr. Web Front End Developer & Designer

Responsibilities:

• Consistently strives to stay abreast of current trends and industry standards in UX Design & UI Development
• Focus on cutting-edge responsive design, while maintaining several websites and multiple brands
• Create exciting user interfaces that will provide a rich user experience by integrating social media with responsibilities that include creating the wireframe layouts, timelines, advertising, marketing, and social media management
• Encourages collaboration with a team of professionals
• Manage user experience with engaging creative GUI
• Design marketing collateral, ads and web sites for each client’s brand
• Condense time lines for sales and sales flow for clients while focusing on business to business and business to consumer print, web and social media campaigns and presentations
• Create daily task and meet with clients to achieve their goals
• Develop and lead brand positioning, develop consumer understanding, insight and targeting
• Lead the development of core creative ideas with a team and support the President and Vice President of sales with innovation projects from idea through launch
• Support clients’ strategy and platforms, drive the companies’ branding and innovation process, utilize tools and key performance indicators, and share best practices across the company and with affiliates
• Concentrate on brand imagery, brand management, and B2B/B2C e-marketing campaigns, organize special events and openings and participate in industry events to understand market trends and developments that can be leveraged

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior UX Designer | Contractor/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Conducted market research and defined user/target audience personas
• Responsible for project management of the entire project, which included working alongside developers and shareholders to define project scope and execute on deliverables
• Created wireframes and mockups for the primary website in addition mobile site mockup
• Responsible for the usability testing

Confidential

Senior UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Engaged as the UI/UX Design Expert
• Designed to ensure effective responsive layout to engage end user
• Created wireframes and mockups to align with client’s objectives
• Designed interactive site with motion graphics
• Developed an entire new design for the GSFS Group Site

Confidential, Houston, TX

UX Lead Designer (Contractor)

Responsibilities:

• Redesign an interactive design for the user using standalone scripting methods
• Design for the end user to only access the intranet on IE platform
• Design and develop an user friendly design that can be used on SharePoint
• Present wireframes and mockups to the senior level marketing team and project executives
• Develop an entire new design for the intranet

Confidential, Houston, TX

Brand Manager | Web Design Intern

Responsibilities:

• Global Brand & Marketing Manager for Energy & Corporate Africa
• CMS Web site design & development
• Develop Brand Strategies for Global Conferences
• Coordinate Programs for Global Events for the Oil and Gas Industry
• Managed the Graphic Design Manager and Coordinator
• Created and Managed the Social Media Connections through blogs and social media

Confidential, Houston, TX

Brand Director

Responsibilities:

• Created and worked on a variety of marketing projects.
• Handled all aspects of design and marketing projects within rigorous deadlines.
• Developed consumer understanding, insight and targeting and served as support to the executive team with innovative projects from idea through launch.
• Supported the company’s brand strategy and photography while concentrating on brand imagery and brand management across all media platforms.
• Consistently created ways to bring extraordinary design and brand management into a project and carrying a design through production, on time and on budget.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Graphic Designer/National Marketing Coordinator II

Responsibilities:

• Acted as leader and mentor for consumer marketing, large format printing and design, sale office layout and display design.
• Reviewed bids for new signs/repairs, ed projects to vendors, built business relationships to guarantee the best customer service and best pricing, advertising, market research, budget planning and effective cost savings while traveling to national and regional division offices.
• Developed sales curricula and associated materials for of staff, division presidents, and new associates.
• Managed corporate events while accommodating over 500 guests at a sales reward trip in New Orleans.
• Scheduled and managed travel and set event agenda and developed all marketing material before and during event.
• Set department and vendor meetings with lotus notes calendars and task list.

Confidential, Sugarland, TX

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:

• Created competitive and remarkable selling environments with large display designs for regional and national homebuilders, master-planned community developers and International developers of vacation ownership resorts.
• Set design goals and met scheduled graphic design projects and scheduled installations.

Confidential, Friendswood, TX

Graphic Designer/Sales & Marketing Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Researched and compiled marketing research data concerning court processes with e filing. Collected, planned and produced all graphics and technical information need to submit multiple requests for proposals for the court software to the government.
• Developed software brand and marketing and advertising collateral, including newsletters, and brochures.
• Managed and budgeted all trade shows nationwide, travel 50% of the time while negotiating selected meeting venues, food and beverage vendors, display logistics and promotional marketing materials.
• Provided usability testing, focus group town meetings, and sales demonstrations for government agency’s court software administrators and buyers.
• Designed and produced all internal meeting materials using PowerPoint presentations word documents.
• Learned the basics of HTML, software coding and software version testing with quarterly in-house .

Confidential, Houston, TX

Graphic Design Intern

Responsibilities:

• Traced logos, pre-press, designed some marketing slicks, and Photoshop images.
• Scanned and color corrected photography, 3-D renderings, ad layout and management including newsletters, and brochures.