Key responsibilities:
Primary design lead and brand steward of engagement for VMware.
• Translate creative requests into impactful strategic design concepts.
• Initiate, articulate and present concepts across various forms
of media and collateral to designers, marketing teams and client.
• Perform brand reviews for creative deliverables across all media
in support of VMware marketing and communications.
• Collaborate closely with assigned account teams to understand
the client’s marketing strategies, target audiences and
communication objectives for all visual communications.
• Organize cycle times and distribution requirements for integrated
marketing communications.

Key responsibilities:
Played a key creative and strategic role for numerous new business
wins: Under Armour, Hilton HGV, Cannon, Anthem

Partnered with account teams, project managers, digital and design
teams to strategize, implement and uphold high level data informed
design solutions.

Trained interns and jr. designers to streamline and organize workflows,
implement design principals and gain mastery of the Adobe
creative suite.

Key accomplishments:
J.P. Morgan Chase
Primary designer for J.P. Morgan Chase and Chase brand partners.
Create, strategize, concept and design winning cross-channel
marketing campaigns, landing pages, email, card art, social media
and direct mail.
• Designed winning campaign for roll-out of Chase Marketplace
business solutions gateway for small business.

Disney
• Rebrand breadth of Disney print and digital assets including
direct mail, landing pages and email.

Budget
• Enhance engagement by incorporating a focused concept
informing all aspects of visual design and storytelling.
• Build efficient process and templates resulting in a staggering
reduction in time and cost.

Bells Brewery . Sotheby’s . Aon Hewitt . AbelsonTaylor . AMA
ByLine Bank . Kaleidoscope . Merkle . Queue Marketing . R5 StudiosMagazine . Intouch Solutions . JLL . Symmetri Marketing B2B

Key responsibilities:
• Pitch and win the opportunity to design intelligent data-informed
solutions for high profile clients, agencies and non-profits.
• Coordinate and direct talent and vision of integrated multi-channel
campaigns, responsive websites and landing pages and more.
• Hire, supervise and collaborate with art directors, copywriters,
developers, animators, photographers, videographers, graphic
designers, print shops, small business service providers, sign
makers, web services as well as producers and ad agencies.

Key accomplishments:
ByLine Bank | Digital strategy design and concept
• Developed full circle concept for Chicago’s neighborhoods.
• UI/UX concept and design and customer ATM experience from
the design of the card art and user interface screens to the
physical look of the ATM branch machine skins.

Bells Brewery
• Bells Amber Ale digital illustration for core brand packaging
and advertising now on shelves.

AbelsonTaylor | Digital Pharma
• Concept development for new major campaign roll-out.
Sotheby’s
• Brand approved designer for Sotheby’s websites, landing pages,
monthly magazine layout, photo shoots, expert photo
retouching, print and email campaigns

Key responsibilities:
Creative working in cross-channel marketing and creative
communications related directly to COF’s 25+ retail partners.
Saks Fifth Avenue . Kawasaki . Capital One . Helzberg Diamonds
Costco . Hudson Bay . Lord & Taylor . +

Key accomplishments:
• Conceptualize high-level, brand-defining design for 25+ Capital One
partnership brands and internal Capital One communications.
• Crafted high-concept design within a creative team; as well as
partner with business partners, project managers, digital team,
copywriters and designers to create and uphold brand standards.
-Research and maintain knowledge of current trends in the marketplace for new business and current partnership brands

-Expedite graphic production work for sixty-eight annual reports, including multiple charts and graphs and also
-Presentation design for sales and internal communication.

Key responsibilities:
Primary design lead and brand steward of engagement for VMware.
• Translate creative requests into impactful strategic design concepts.
• Initiate, articulate and present concepts across various forms
of media and collateral to designers, marketing teams and client.
• Perform brand reviews for creative deliverables across all media
in support of VMware marketing and communications.
• Collaborate closely with assigned account teams to understand
the client’s marketing strategies, target audiences and
communication objectives for all visual communications.
• Organize cycle times and distribution requirements for integrated
marketing communications.

Teamed with copywriter to steer creative visual strategy, design concepts, visual messaging for fortune 500 company executive presentations. Successfully created cohesive large scale visuals from selective and changing data. Created easy to understand, approachable graphics to communicate extremely detailed complicated information.

Microsites | Bi-Montly Magazine |
Creative Director // Graphics // Print // Strategy // Web consulting // Branding

Collaborate to devise clever campaign strategies to promote luxury real estate for international lifestyles including waterfront, golf or ski luxury homes, properties and estates.

Bi-monthly template based magazine Design.

Expertly create multiple branded microsites and campaign templates within the Sotheby's stringent corporate branding standards.

//Web // Print //

Contract Full Time Short Term
Graphic Design / html E-mail Design / Logos for Internal Campaigns

Launched high caliber highly visible campaign for US presidential candidate. Solved complex problems from branding, strategy and execution of digital print and social campaigns.

Directly impacted education, coordination and response to candidate with Illinois donors, voters, media, volunteers.

Swiftly developed a flexible efficient template system for multi platform massaging that enabled

Design, implementation, and maintenance of a national sales maps. Interactive pdf creation
Web management and maintenance,
Began e-mail marketing campaign strategy, design development and deployment of Graphics Layout and Design

Create Graphics for Executive Presentation.
Strategy / Graphic Design / Consulting

Ongoing executive presentations / Design / Graphic Design / Consulting

Graphic Design tasks, Collaboration for McKessen

Creative Director // Graphics // Print // Strategy // Web consulting // Branding
Implemented clever strategies to design and create monthly magazine to promote luxury real estate properties. Expertly managed multiple client expectations under tight time frames. Managed individual broker branding within stringent corporate branding standards.
Graphic Design / Web / Print

• Created html e-mail for several B2B campaigns.
• Teamed with Sr. Art Director to develop 2 series of 30-35 multi-sized animated gif banner ad campaigns for B2B Pharma. Marketing campaign.
• Successfully designed a Pharma Logo put immediately into production
• Collaborated with Copywriter to layout and design an info-graphic multipage brochure.
• Created web elements, banner ads and print production work for architectural metals firm.

SAIC

Graphic Art and Illustration