David Greb

Designer

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Work Experience

FirstPage Marketing

Creative Manager

Responsibilities:
• Develop creative ideas and designs for all projects
• Articulate ideas for internal review and present design
concepts to clients
• Produce creative concept on time and within budget
• Help our team build strong client relationships
• Provide direction to other creative team members
• Develop concepts for promotional videos along with script writing, and post-production editing
• Provide art direction to photographers

Achievements:
• Developed a new process for creating sitemaps and wireframes that greatly increased our client buy-in and increased approvals
• Designed 121 websites since June 2014 (and counting!)
June 2014 - Present Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Westminster Savings Credit Union

Senior Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:
• Art director for external advertising campaigns
• Creative lead to outside agencies and other third parties
• Oversee the production of all in-branch digital display graphics
as well as all print ads and promotional merchandise design
• Manage relationships with various printers, freelance writers,
artists and illustrators

Achievements:
• Produced an advertising campaign for a new mobile banking site that reached 141% of the monthly log in target
• Produced an advertising campaign for the RRSP season that achieved 157% of the sales target
May 2012 - June 2014 British Columbia, Canada

Westminster Savings

Graphic Designer

Responsibilities:
• Produced creative concepts for external advertising campaigns
• Produced web graphics, web landing pages, digital display graphics, print ads and promotional merchandise
December 2008 - May 2012 New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Black Press

Graphic Designer

April 2006 - October 2008 Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Freelance Designer

Freelance Graphic Designer

Book of work included clients from the lumber industry, medical industry, wedding photographers, non-profit sector, and software development companies.
September 2006 - June 2013 Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

Education

Emily Carr University

Bachelor of Media Arts

April 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

British Columbia Institute Of Technology

Communication Design Essentials

The Certificate in Communication Design Essentials is a partnership program between BCIT and Emily Carr University. It provided me with a skillset that prepared me for success in the design field. This intensive program combined technical expertise with a solid foundation in visual communication and the design process.
April 2005 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Snap shot

- MAC genius­ and PC lover—I don’t discriminate
- Fluent in the creative language of Adobe
- Knowledgeable in HTML5, CSS, PHP
- Colour swatch books are the best books I’ve ever read
- Marketing and brand background
- Video production savvy—bonus: the stories from my days as a Grip make for great lunch time banter