Kelly Bowker

Creative Strategist

Somerville, MA, USA
I 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 - 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,