Lauren Van Riper
Owner | Designer
Southern Shores, NC, USA
[252] 564-8625
be.net/firewalkerdesigns
A Graphic Designer who has known what she wanted to do since she was 5 years old. Now I have the experience to back it up.
Work Experience
Fire Walker Designs
Owner | Principle Designer
Running own design firm with a core of loyal repeat clients creating projects that range from website e-commerce, social media optimized graphics, logo development, tradeshow graphics, planning and more
September 2001
- Present
Southern Shores, North Carolina, United States
Smiths Detection
Agency for Global Creative Services
Supporting all internal and external marketing communication needs for the EMEA and US offices. Internal communications and branding alignment. Handle all day-to-day marketing requests, sell sheets, emails, social media, HubSpot campaigns, datasheets for over 80 products in 11 different languages. Rollout of new branding initiatives.
June 2012
- Present
London, United Kingdom
Smiths Detection
Creative Services Manager
Global Creative Services Manager overseeing an in-house communications team supporting diverse international markets. Projects range from trade show booths to department procedure creation, email blasts, website maintenance and development. Created and promoted the marketing design team, project tracking workflow and development planning for all team members.
March 2007
- May 2012
Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Lincoln Educational Services
Creative Services Manager
Marketing creative services manager for a post secondary for profit education company with 38 campuses nationwide, under 8 schools. Returned all creative back in-house for control over quality and consistency. Rebranded all creative to a cohesive look and feel. Manage from concept to completion. Interaction with print and promotional vendors. Job tracking workflow and data management systems custom created for the department. Jobs range from direct mail to advertising, billboard, web and take ones.
September 2004
- March 2007
West Orange, New Jersey, United States
High IntenCity
Temporary Graphic Designer
Maternity leave - Graphic designer for trendy jewelry company including licenses for Disney and Sanrio for teen and tween market. Responsible for catalogs, mailers, logo development, sell sheets, press kits, support of Macintosh network, applications and in-house printing of all marketing pieces.
November 2003
- September 2004
Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States
Goen Group
Marketing Graphic Designer
In-house graphic designer for weight loss firm. Duties include promotional items for NASCAR, forms, packaging, giveaways, press kits and company branding specifications.
April 2003
- November 2003
Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, United States
Pearson Learning
Marketing Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer for educational publisher creating marketing materials to support internal corporate needs using Macintosh with conversion to Windows for the sales force. Responsibilities included project management, design and web development leader. Projects ranged from company branding, direct mail, trade shows, brochures, catalogs, multimedia presentations, logo development, BRC’s silk screening, packaging, promotional items, price lists, inserts, product color slicks, template creation and photo shoots.
June 1998
- September 2001
London, United Kingdom
Education
University Of Hartford Art School
B.F.A. in Graphic Design with Minor in Art History
September 1993
- June 1997
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Skills
Access,
Acrobat,
Dreamweaver,
Encore,
Excel,
Google Sketchup,
Hubspot ,
Illustrator,
Indesign,
InfoPath,
LiveCycle,
Mac,
Microsoft,
Outlook,
PC,
Pdf,
Photoshop,
Powerpoint,
Premier,
Publisher,
Quark Xpress,
SAP,
SharePoint,
Soundbooth,
Spark,
Visio,
Word,
Word Press,
Memberships
Boonton Fire Department 11 Years
Mountain Lakes Fire Department 19 Years
Duck Fire Department 2 Years
Southern Shores new
Firefighter One, Firefighter Two, Firefighter Three, Elevator Rescue, Haz-Mat Incident Analysis, Haz-Mat Awareness Level 1, Haz-Mat Operations Level 2, Confined Space, Thermal Imaging Training, First Responder Awareness, First Responder Operations, FAST Team, Emergency Apparatus Driver Training, Vehicle Rescue, Vehicle Rescue II, High Angle Rescue, High Angle Rescue II, Pump Operations, Advanced Pump Operations, Truck Company Operations, IMS-100, IMS-200, Rappelling, Firefighter Strategy & Tactics, Fire Service Harness, Fire Foams, Responding to Routine Emergencies (DCA) , NC Red Tag - Suppression Fire Firefighter
Mountain Lakes Fire Department 19 Years
Duck Fire Department 2 Years
Southern Shores new
Firefighter One, Firefighter Two, Firefighter Three, Elevator Rescue, Haz-Mat Incident Analysis, Haz-Mat Awareness Level 1, Haz-Mat Operations Level 2, Confined Space, Thermal Imaging Training, First Responder Awareness, First Responder Operations, FAST Team, Emergency Apparatus Driver Training, Vehicle Rescue, Vehicle Rescue II, High Angle Rescue, High Angle Rescue II, Pump Operations, Advanced Pump Operations, Truck Company Operations, IMS-100, IMS-200, Rappelling, Firefighter Strategy & Tactics, Fire Service Harness, Fire Foams, Responding to Routine Emergencies (DCA) , NC Red Tag - Suppression Fire Firefighter