Megan Manning
Designer and Creative Leader
San Diego, CA, USA
442-245-2171
www.behance.net/posimachine
With over 10 years experience, my professional creative and technical background has been a hybrid of visual design, communication and web development. I am passionate about design strategy, a creative problem solver, and an advocate of beautiful and seamless customer experiences end-to-end with the ability to execute.
Work Experience
Graphic and Web Design Manager
Collaborated cross-functionally with Sales, Strategy, Marketing and Product to build and shape Cireson’s brand identity while creating compelling new personalized customer journeys across print, email, social, video and web. Delivered creative and marketing executions ranging from conceptual thinking to development, setup, QA and reporting across the customer lifecycle. Conducted advanced customer analytics to inform new engagement strategies and tactics. Identified trends and developed new insights and optimized campaign performance, customer value and retention. Built an international team of web developers and a marketing assistant.
July 2016
- June 2020
California, United States
PosiMachine Studio
Freelance Designer / Developer / Art Director
Graphic design, multimedia and web design for new and existing businesses. Clients have included AMN Healthcare, Zotos Group, SJ Creations, KCD PR, Online Performers Group, Environmental Construction Group and more. Design executions from concept to post-production of numerous including logo design, branding, marketing collateral, trade show turnkeys, posters, packaging, and promotional videos. Web projects have included banner ads, email marketing, wireframing, prototyping, annotated interaction workflows and user interface design, and development preparation (cut-ups and style guides).
June 2008
- Present
California, United States
Petco Animal Supplies
Email and Web Content Producer
November 2013
- Present
San Diego, California, United States
Sony Online Entertainment
Multimedia Marketing Artist
Worked closely with the Art Director, marketing team, game development teams, and vendors to develop creative for trade shows, marketing materials, website interfaces, in-game graphics, logos, flash banners ads, global eCommerce promotions, and CRM initiatives for leading MMO game titles including PlanetSide 2, DC Online Universe, EverQuest, Clone Wars Adventures, etc. Managed and executed email marketing campaigns end-to-end, including design, HTML, list-pulls, testing, launch, and analysis.
August 2011
- August 2013
California, United States
SJ Creations, Inc.
Graphic and Web Designer
Designed labels and packaging for bath and body products; assembled mock-ups & samples for buyers; create print-ready files; experience with licenses & use of style guide. Involved in every aspect of e-commerce site including website design, processing orders (receiving, shipping, tracking), customer service, regular design updates, social media marketing and promotions. Created sales and marketing materials including brochures, movie screen ads, and buyer presentations.
August 2011
- September 2011
Leucadia, California, United States
Education
Platt College (San Diego)
B.S. in Media Arts (3D)
January 2009
- October 2010
San Diego, California, United States
Platt College (San Diego)
A.A.S. in Graphic Design
January 2009
- September 2009
San Diego, California, United States
Awards
San Diego County Fair
1st Place for Digital Illustration
201007
Skills
CSS,
Prototypes,
User Experience,
Wireframing,
After Effects,
Dreamweaver,
Email Design,
Final Cut Pro,
Flash,
HTML,
Illustrator,
MAYA,
Photoshop,
Recommendations
I would have no hesitation in recommending Megan Manning for a design/creative role after having worked closely with her in my position as Senior Director, Global CRM & eCommerce at Sony Online Entertainment.
Megan was continually tasked with implementing graphic assets at short notice and across a variety of media. In particular, we challenged her to learn all she could about email design and production, which was relatively new to her and she stepped up to the task, producing high quality work at a very high volume as internal demand for email and online banner ad production grew at a disproportionate rate to the resources we had available in the team.
Very easy to work with, Megan is always pleasant, approachable and makes sure she understands the requirements of her customer, following up as necessary for clarification whenever needed. She also was willing to, and frequently did, step out of her day to day responsibilities to provide extra support where possible, for example ensuring that eCommerce promotional assets were delivered and clearly communicated to all channels both internally and externally.
Megan would make a great asset to any team and I wish her the best of luck!
Lisa Nicklin
Senior Director, Global CRM & eCommerce Marketing
Sony Online Entertainment
The purpose of this letter is to recommend Megan Manning for employment as a graphic designer or related position. I had the esteemed pleasure of working with Megan for the past year at Sony Online Entertainment.
Megan possesses the skills any great designer needs and your company would be lucky to have her work for you. I learned early on how passionate Megan is at her job and what a great employee she is. Every day she would come to work with a smile on her face and a positive attitude. Megan always got her work done in a timely, efficient matter, and always asked for more responsibilities.
I worked very closely with Megan at Sony Online Entertainment. Megan was responsible for designing our lifecycle email campaigns including, bi-weekly newsletters, online banner creative, online advertisements, and promotional material. She worked extremely close with brand marketing, eCommerce, and web presence teams. Through my conversations with each of the people in these departments, they all had nothing but nice thins to say about Megan as a person and as a working professional.
I have worked in marketing for eight years now and worked with a lot of different types of designers. Unfortunately, a lot of them have fit the stereotype of a designer. They were slow to get things done or wouldn’t be open to change creative direction. None of these are adjectives I would use to describe Megan. She is an outstanding professional with tons of experience.
I would highly recommend Megan to your company seeking these qualities in an individual. They don’t come much better than Megan Manning.
Kyle Sandsmark
Associate Brand Manager
Sony Online Entertainment
Megan was continually tasked with implementing graphic assets at short notice and across a variety of media. In particular, we challenged her to learn all she could about email design and production, which was relatively new to her and she stepped up to the task, producing high quality work at a very high volume as internal demand for email and online banner ad production grew at a disproportionate rate to the resources we had available in the team.
Very easy to work with, Megan is always pleasant, approachable and makes sure she understands the requirements of her customer, following up as necessary for clarification whenever needed. She also was willing to, and frequently did, step out of her day to day responsibilities to provide extra support where possible, for example ensuring that eCommerce promotional assets were delivered and clearly communicated to all channels both internally and externally.
Megan would make a great asset to any team and I wish her the best of luck!
Lisa Nicklin
Senior Director, Global CRM & eCommerce Marketing
Sony Online Entertainment
The purpose of this letter is to recommend Megan Manning for employment as a graphic designer or related position. I had the esteemed pleasure of working with Megan for the past year at Sony Online Entertainment.
Megan possesses the skills any great designer needs and your company would be lucky to have her work for you. I learned early on how passionate Megan is at her job and what a great employee she is. Every day she would come to work with a smile on her face and a positive attitude. Megan always got her work done in a timely, efficient matter, and always asked for more responsibilities.
I worked very closely with Megan at Sony Online Entertainment. Megan was responsible for designing our lifecycle email campaigns including, bi-weekly newsletters, online banner creative, online advertisements, and promotional material. She worked extremely close with brand marketing, eCommerce, and web presence teams. Through my conversations with each of the people in these departments, they all had nothing but nice thins to say about Megan as a person and as a working professional.
I have worked in marketing for eight years now and worked with a lot of different types of designers. Unfortunately, a lot of them have fit the stereotype of a designer. They were slow to get things done or wouldn’t be open to change creative direction. None of these are adjectives I would use to describe Megan. She is an outstanding professional with tons of experience.
I would highly recommend Megan to your company seeking these qualities in an individual. They don’t come much better than Megan Manning.
Kyle Sandsmark
Associate Brand Manager
Sony Online Entertainment