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Terrick Gichie

Creative Manager / Art Director / Graphic Designer

Montego Bay, Jamaica
8764831868 terrickgichie.myportfolio.com
I provide a high level of creative influence by building a "never compromising" mentality to consistently raise the bar in any design space. Creative, driven and professional individual with over 15 years experience in the graphic design field both as a freelance designer and also working within a corporate global company. Experience in graphic designing, art directing and career management. Team leader on several projects throughout the last 3-4 years with all positive results. Extensive knowledge in Adobe Creative suite, CorelDraw, Microsoft Office and WordPerfect.

Work Experience

Vista

Creative Manager - Product Creation & Experience

Provides in-depth creative leadership on a design team. Applies a broad application of principles, theories and concepts to projects involving complex workarounds and upsell of designs. Acts a resource/manages a team of designers. Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own function.
March 2019 - Present Jamaica

Vista

Creative Support Manager - Product Design

Act as design thought leader for Creative Support unit. Accountable for delivery of all projects and provide updates to product owners. Acts as interface point with creative team on creative standards and guidelines for team unit.

Brainstorm processes to influence creative innovation. Use of skill set to solve creative and technical escalations. Grow influence to have global creative impact. People manager for graphic designers and team leads.
October 2016 - March 2019 Jamaica

Vista

Department Manager - Product Design

Manages a department of 8 Production Designers/2 Senior Production Designers while acting as a design thought leader on all projects. Accountable for delivery of all department projects and provides updates to senior level managers on progress. Influences and supports training and sharing across global teams. Acts as team subject matter expert on specific complex projects.
August 2014 - October 2016 Jamaica

Vista

Senior Graphic Designer - Product Design

Responsible for career management for a team of 8 designers and also providing all art direction for any project assigned to team. Lead design team in a major digital overhaul labeled Digital Content Matching, a partnership between VistaPrint + WEBS. Appointed as a coach for upcoming leaders within the company for the Leadership in Exploration Program.
July 2013 - August 2014 Jamaica

Vista

Graphic Designer - Content Creative

Appointed as team lead for several projects including important launches of new products both digital and print. This included art direction, training and ensuring that delivery were met on time. Successfully completed a Supervisor Development Program over a course of 7 months.
July 2012 - July 2013 Jamaica

Vista

Junior Graphic Designer - Content Creative

Played pivotal role in making additional new content to satisfy VistaPrint customers with industry specific designs. Lead small projects which included minimal art direction to newer members on our team. Responsible for overall training module for all new hires, which included training materials, processes, art direction and hands-on training in tools and software.
July 2010 - July 2012 Jamaica

Vista

Production Artist - Content Creative

Completed a successful training programme over a 3 month period in Lexington, Mass. Played a major role in helping to deliver over 1000 new/original business identity templates. Created new content in business identity products and also help to expand existing content to include more marketing and signage materials.
August 2008 - July 2010 Jamaica

Vista

Graphic Designer - Creative Services

Created/modified designs based on existing templates within a web-based program whenever customers requested a more customized product from our site.
May 2008 - August 2008 Jamaica

Speedy Prints

Lead Graphic Designer

Responsible for the designing/concept creation of various printed products, inclusive of magazines, brochures, programmes, flyers, business cards and other various marketing materials.
December 2003 - May 2008 Montego Bay, Jamaica

Education

Montego Bay Community College

1998 - 2000 Montego Bay, Jamaica

Cornwall College

1993 - 1998 Montego Bay, Jamaica

SKILLS

Art Direction, Graphic Design, People Management, Creative Direction, Concept Design, Image Manipulation, Typography, Brand Identity, Passes/Distinction: CXC.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.