Kelly Bowker
Creative Strategist
Somerville, MA, USAI am the design thinker that will aid your brand in turning abstract ideas into tangible solutions. By utilizing my eclectic background I am able to develop and clearly communicate creative strategies to all parties involved in a project from the client, to creative, to development all leading to a successful experience by the end user.
Work Experience
Vistaprint
Graphic Designer, Web Process & Design
July 2009
- April 2014
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Panogram
Design + Strategy
May 2011
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Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Baseline Development Group
Production Artist
November 2008
- May 2009
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Trendy-LLC
Graphic Designer
December 2007
- November 2008
Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
VCU Graphics Lab
Lab Assistant
I handled a multitude of duties ranging from cleaning slides, setting up photo shoots, printing student and faculty work, along with some inter-department design projects.
September 2004
- May 2007
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Senior Navigator
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer for a non-profit assisting Seniors in the state of Virginia. I handled updating existing materials and designing new work for direct mail, promotions, email and online. I designed all materials for an annual event called the Compass Rose.
May 2006
- May 2007
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Sametz Blackstone Associates
Strategist
April 2014
- August 2014
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Education
Boston University
MBA
In order to improve my general knowledge and provide better Creative Strategies for my clients, I am working on an MBA in the areas of Strategy, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and General Business Management.
September 2013
- Present
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Emerson College
MA in Integrated Marketing
January 2011
- August 2012
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts College Of Art And Design (MassArt)
Graduate Credit in Graphic Design
For the 2010 Fall semester I took a class on Identity and Brand Design for graduate credit, taught by Jon Craine. The assignment was to design a cohesive identity for a fictional publisher from the basic logo/word mark to branded book covers.
September 2010
- December 2010
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
North Bennet Street School
May 2010
- May 2010
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Virginia Commonwealth University
BA in Graphic Design
August 2003
- May 2007
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Skills
Adobe Creative Suite,
Branding,
Circus Acrobatics,
Client Communications,
Communication,
Creative Direction,
Cross Functional Communications,
CSS,
Design Strategy,
Graphic Design,
HTML,
Integrated Marketing,
Leadership,
Letterpress,
Operations Management,
Origami,
Package Design,
Pattern Design,
Project Management,
Research,
Silk Screening,
Story-boarding,
Training,
Web Design,