Helen Ho
Sr. Manager, Creative Services
Milpitas, CA, USAA highly motivated individual with outstanding creative skills in different field - including print, web, video, software user interface and hardware product design. Great team player and can work under pressure and tight deadline. Experience developing new and refreshed brands from visual identity and use guidelines through brand applications. Project and process management expertise with excellent project planning and organization skills. Ability to work fast, but accurately with great attention to detail. Experience working with diverse teams and diverse skills, toward a common end.
Work Experience
Nvidia
Sr. Digital Art Director for Corporate Creative
February 2018
- Present
California, United States
Nvidia
Sr. Art Director for APAC
• Hire, inspire, and manage APAC creative team (Taipei, Taiwan, and Shanghai/Beijing, China) to deliver world-class creative executions across multiple APAC countries.
• Art direct and manage mega events in APAC, including Computex (Taiwan), ChinaJoy (China), GTC Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Australia), G-Star (Korea), and etc.
• Together with agencies, drive creative localization, and trans-creation process.
• Responsible for articulating and defending conceptual creative and ideas to APAC region leads.
• Manage APAC branding guidelines and provide brand training to internal marketing and external partners/vendors
• Direct all phases of creative work from concept development, through production.
• Maintain consistent creative quality and award winning work across the APAC region.
• Provide brand and visual identity training to network of regional agencies and regional offices.
• Align with US headquarters, regional marketing, and sales executives about visual branding, messaging, and positioning.
• Art direct and manage mega events in APAC, including Computex (Taiwan), ChinaJoy (China), GTC Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Australia), G-Star (Korea), and etc.
• Together with agencies, drive creative localization, and trans-creation process.
• Responsible for articulating and defending conceptual creative and ideas to APAC region leads.
• Manage APAC branding guidelines and provide brand training to internal marketing and external partners/vendors
• Direct all phases of creative work from concept development, through production.
• Maintain consistent creative quality and award winning work across the APAC region.
• Provide brand and visual identity training to network of regional agencies and regional offices.
• Align with US headquarters, regional marketing, and sales executives about visual branding, messaging, and positioning.
September 2015
- February 2018
Santa Clara, California, United States
Infoblox
Sr. Manager, Creative Services
• Won 2011 American Graphic Design USA Award (Web Home Page Design) - http://ww2.infoblox.com/homepage/index.html
• Manage corporate branding and build design guidelines/templates (including InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, Icons, Photos, VSS, and more) to maintain brand consistency internally (Marketing, Sales, UI, Training, and Tech Pub) and externally (Partners, Distributors, and Localization vendors)
• Team building and cross discipline creative direction in collaboration with VP of Marketing
• Oversight and drive delivery of all branding projects, including web design/usability, site navigation, user experience, and content taxonomy
• Execute the creative of product launches, global campaigns (including A/B testing emails, landing pages, Google ads, and etc.), Sales Kickoff, executive presentations, and signature events
• Manage multi-languages campaigns and lead gen assets (Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese Br, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean), including localization, emails, landing pages, collateral, videos, and customer-facing presentations
• Manage creative studio resources and budget (in-house designers, offsite design contractors, external vendors, design agencies and localization firm)
• Assign and delegate job tasks. Monitor tasks/deliverables to ensure “on time” project delivery
• Manage creative assets. Standardize naming system for internal (keyword searchable) and external (SEO/SEM friendly)
• Manage corporate branding and build design guidelines/templates (including InDesign, Word, PowerPoint, Icons, Photos, VSS, and more) to maintain brand consistency internally (Marketing, Sales, UI, Training, and Tech Pub) and externally (Partners, Distributors, and Localization vendors)
• Team building and cross discipline creative direction in collaboration with VP of Marketing
• Oversight and drive delivery of all branding projects, including web design/usability, site navigation, user experience, and content taxonomy
• Execute the creative of product launches, global campaigns (including A/B testing emails, landing pages, Google ads, and etc.), Sales Kickoff, executive presentations, and signature events
• Manage multi-languages campaigns and lead gen assets (Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese Br, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean), including localization, emails, landing pages, collateral, videos, and customer-facing presentations
• Manage creative studio resources and budget (in-house designers, offsite design contractors, external vendors, design agencies and localization firm)
• Assign and delegate job tasks. Monitor tasks/deliverables to ensure “on time” project delivery
• Manage creative assets. Standardize naming system for internal (keyword searchable) and external (SEO/SEM friendly)
May 2011
- August 2015
California, United States
Infoblox
Creative Services Manager
• Develop corporate branding to a “World-Class” level
• Manage corporate branding, build design guidelines/templates, and educate internal teams (Marketing, Sales, UI, Training, and Tech Pub) and external business units (Partners, Distributors, and Localization vendors)
• Design and manage 30+ product launches/campaigns per year
• Manage the design and content of all customer-facing Marketing/Sales materials
• Ensure all web marketing programs are SEO/SEM friendly
• Create and maintain 6 multi-language’s websites (German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean), 3 co-brand partners' support websites, 3 blogs and 2 user communities sites
• Design and art direct UI/UE team to develop software user interface, icons, splash screen, login screen, help menu and more
• Manage corporate branding, build design guidelines/templates, and educate internal teams (Marketing, Sales, UI, Training, and Tech Pub) and external business units (Partners, Distributors, and Localization vendors)
• Design and manage 30+ product launches/campaigns per year
• Manage the design and content of all customer-facing Marketing/Sales materials
• Ensure all web marketing programs are SEO/SEM friendly
• Create and maintain 6 multi-language’s websites (German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean), 3 co-brand partners' support websites, 3 blogs and 2 user communities sites
• Design and art direct UI/UE team to develop software user interface, icons, splash screen, login screen, help menu and more
December 2005
- May 2011
Santa Clara, California, United States
Nvidia
Senior Graphic/Web Designer
• Design and produce web graphics, emailers, ads, tradeshow graphic
• Provide design support for the NVIDIA Corporate website and Intranet
• Work with the Creative Director and marketing department to review creative options for marketing material, develop design concepts appropriate to the target audiences, and produce final artwork
• Brainstorm concepts and translate ideas into visual presentations in a marketing context
• Work with outside vendors – including printers, photographers, and external creative agencies – to provide direction, templates and necessary assets and to ensure brand consistency
• Proofread and review vendor proofs
• Provide design support for the NVIDIA Corporate website and Intranet
• Work with the Creative Director and marketing department to review creative options for marketing material, develop design concepts appropriate to the target audiences, and produce final artwork
• Brainstorm concepts and translate ideas into visual presentations in a marketing context
• Work with outside vendors – including printers, photographers, and external creative agencies – to provide direction, templates and necessary assets and to ensure brand consistency
• Proofread and review vendor proofs
June 2003
- December 2005
Santa Clara, California, United States
Sun Microsystem
Graphic, Web, UI Designer
• Design and produce marketing materials from concept to mechanical, including brochures, flyers, advertisements, invitations, signage, logos and other collateral for print and web use
• Trade show visual design and execution
• Design/execute intranet websites (iPlanet Application Server 5.0 and 6.0, Sun Web University Recruiting, Meeting@Sun.com)
• Icons and User Interface design
• Trade show visual design and execution
• Design/execute intranet websites (iPlanet Application Server 5.0 and 6.0, Sun Web University Recruiting, Meeting@Sun.com)
• Icons and User Interface design
February 1998
- June 2003
San José, California, United States
Education
San Jose State University (CSU)
B.S. Graphic Design
September 1993
- December 1996
San Jose, Canada
West Valley College
AA. Fashion Design
September 2000
- May 2002
Saratoga, California, United States
Languages
English (Fluent),
Mandarin (Fluent),
Cantonese (Native),
Awards
Skills
Adobe Creative CC,
Adobe Creative Suite,
CSS3,
HTML5,
Microsoft Office,