Megan Gordon
Art Director
Raleigh, NC, USA
859.609.4391
be.net/megs_gordon
I have two sides. A business side and an artist side. As an artist, I am very detailed oriented, motivated, enthusiastic about life and I love to laugh. As part of my business side, I design and manage brands with a strategic mind-set. I am passionate about protecting the mission, culture, brand and brand assets of an organization. I enjoy creatively representing a vision, goal and/or idea into a visual message and find an insatiable sense of pride when completing a project to the satisfaction of the organization's goals.
Work Experience
Freelance/Contract
Art Director/ Senior Graphic Designer
Chiquita Brands International, Feb '12 - June ‘12
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, for CPG Packaging Initiative support and retail POP
Upstream Media, Sept. '10 - March '11, Dec. '10 - Feb. '12
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, and style guide implementation for product innovation and support
Stevenson Color, June '11 - Sept. '11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, for CPG Packaging Initiative support and retail POP
Interbrand, April '10 - Aug. '10, April ‘11 - July ‘11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, style guide development and CPG Packaging Initiative support
Candle-lite, Jan. '11 - April ’11
· Responsible for package design implementation, concept development and refinement
Protective Life Insurance, March '11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement
United Cerebral Palsy of Cincinnati, May '09 - Jan. '11
· Design and manage production implementation for quarterly newsletter, special event invitations and annual reports
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, for CPG Packaging Initiative support and retail POP
Upstream Media, Sept. '10 - March '11, Dec. '10 - Feb. '12
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, and style guide implementation for product innovation and support
Stevenson Color, June '11 - Sept. '11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, for CPG Packaging Initiative support and retail POP
Interbrand, April '10 - Aug. '10, April ‘11 - July ‘11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement, style guide development and CPG Packaging Initiative support
Candle-lite, Jan. '11 - April ’11
· Responsible for package design implementation, concept development and refinement
Protective Life Insurance, March '11
· Responsible for design implementation, concept development and refinement
United Cerebral Palsy of Cincinnati, May '09 - Jan. '11
· Design and manage production implementation for quarterly newsletter, special event invitations and annual reports
May 2009
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
National Speaking Of Women's Health Foundation
Graphic Designer and Communications Specialist
· Managed company brands and, authored collateral and brand management system
· Responsible for local and national press releases
· Scheduled, reviewed, researched placement and designed regional and national advertisements and campaigns
· Designed and managed production implementation of regional and national special events print materials
· Acted as liaison between upper management and vendors
· Responsible for local and national press releases
· Scheduled, reviewed, researched placement and designed regional and national advertisements and campaigns
· Designed and managed production implementation of regional and national special events print materials
· Acted as liaison between upper management and vendors
January 2007
- December 2008
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Fifth Third Bank
Marketing Coordinator
· Acted as Project Manager for the '05 Fifth Third Bank Home and Garden Show
· Managed 500 pieces of collateral including production, updates and distribution
· Authored and designed first interactive webinar series
· Event Planner and Designer for prospect and sales meetings
· Managed marketing campaigns including advertising, PR and internal communications
· Managed 500 pieces of collateral including production, updates and distribution
· Authored and designed first interactive webinar series
· Event Planner and Designer for prospect and sales meetings
· Managed marketing campaigns including advertising, PR and internal communications
March 2004
- December 2006
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Fifth Third Bank
Customer Service Representative
· Organized branch marketing strategies for product sales and customer retention
· Completed all required customer service, sales and marketing training classes as well as surplus training courses
· Frequently recognized as providing excellent customer service and meeting marketing goals bybranch and district managers
· Designed and painted branch windows for marketing promotions and campaigns
· Completed all required customer service, sales and marketing training classes as well as surplus training courses
· Frequently recognized as providing excellent customer service and meeting marketing goals bybranch and district managers
· Designed and painted branch windows for marketing promotions and campaigns
May 2000
- January 2003
Ft Thomas, Kentucky, United States
General Cable
Transportation and Distribution Administrator
· Developed and implemented excel templates to standardized the end of the month financialreporting process and increased efficiency in the monthly reporting process by 50%
· Created and organized the first training manual for the Transportation Distribution Administrator position
· Designed and authored a self-paced, online training class for the General Cable CapitalExpenditure Requests in half the allotted time
· Created and organized the first training manual for the Transportation Distribution Administrator position
· Designed and authored a self-paced, online training class for the General Cable CapitalExpenditure Requests in half the allotted time
May 2000
- January 2003
Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
Arvin Meritor
Marketing Co-op
· Designed and authored first self-paced, online training class in Friction Materialsfor the Marketing department
· Selected amongst peers to participate in company’s Executive Management Mentoring program
· Assigned by senior management to develop and organize five pricing booklets for variouscustomer segments. Completed the project on-time and exceeded project expectations.
· Selected amongst peers to participate in company’s Executive Management Mentoring program
· Assigned by senior management to develop and organize five pricing booklets for variouscustomer segments. Completed the project on-time and exceeded project expectations.
June 2004
- December 2004
Florence, Kentucky, United States
Education
Northern Kentucky University
Bachelor of Science
· Marketing
May 2000
- December 2004
Highland Heights, Kentucky, United States
Art Institute Of Ohio-CIncinnati
Associate of Applied Science
· Valedictorian
· Graphic Design
· Graphic Design
January 2009
- December 2009
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Skills
Adobe Acrobat,
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe InDesign,
Adobe Photoshop,
Keynote,
Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Office,
Microsoft Outlook,
Microsoft Power Point,
Microsoft Word,
Achievements
· Summa Cum Laude graduate from the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati
· Cum Laude graduate from Northern Kentucky University
· Member of AIGA | the professional association of design '08 - '10
· Member of Professional Advisory Committee for the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati '10 - ‘11
· Speaker and gallery participant for first annual Alumni Gallery Show at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati, '11
· Speaker for Career Week at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati, '10
· Artwork selected by panel of judges and displayed in the 2010 Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati Student Show. Only designer selected to have all three submissions displayed.
· Featured seven times in the student gallery, twice in the lobby and selected to design artwork for the registrar office at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati
· 1st Place Phi Beta Lambda Newsletter Competition, '04
· 2nd Place Business Decision Making Competition, '04
· Northern Kentucky University Ms. Professional Business Leader, '04
· Independent Marketing Research Study for the city of Carrollton, Kentucky '04
· President and Reporter for Phi Beta Lambda Professional Business LeadersOrganization '03 and '04, respectively
· Cum Laude graduate from Northern Kentucky University
· Member of AIGA | the professional association of design '08 - '10
· Member of Professional Advisory Committee for the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati '10 - ‘11
· Speaker and gallery participant for first annual Alumni Gallery Show at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati, '11
· Speaker for Career Week at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati, '10
· Artwork selected by panel of judges and displayed in the 2010 Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati Student Show. Only designer selected to have all three submissions displayed.
· Featured seven times in the student gallery, twice in the lobby and selected to design artwork for the registrar office at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati
· 1st Place Phi Beta Lambda Newsletter Competition, '04
· 2nd Place Business Decision Making Competition, '04
· Northern Kentucky University Ms. Professional Business Leader, '04
· Independent Marketing Research Study for the city of Carrollton, Kentucky '04
· President and Reporter for Phi Beta Lambda Professional Business LeadersOrganization '03 and '04, respectively