VISUAL DESIGNER Resume Profile

SUMMARY

Marketing and creative professional, with a passion around branding, art, web and graphic design with 10.5 years of experience as a seasoned high - level expert using primarily Adobe CS6, HTML, and CSS. Specialize in targeted-marketing strategy, creative design, branding image, copywriting, anthropological UX/UI design, and visual design working with development and clients.

SKILLS:
EXPERT 10 yrs.:
User Experience UX and User Interface UI Visual Graphic Web Designer: Adobe CS6: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, etc.
HTML5 HTML4, XHTML
CSS3 CSS2
Wireframes, Mockups
Balsamiq, Illustrator, PhotoShop, Visio, Axure, OmniGraffle
iOS7 Human Interface Guide
Onsite-offshore Project Mgmt.
Designing across all platforms: Responsive web, tablet and mobile iOS7, Windows 8, Android
Dynamic Design
Code w/ Sublime 2
Animations, WordPress
UX / UI Design
Creative Briefs, Story Boards
Presales RFP's
JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX
HTML Email Design
SilverPop, ExactTarget
MS Office, presentations
All Main Social Media Platforms
E-Marketing Campaigns
Collateral Design
Branding Identity
Client Management
Project Management
Creative Direction Managing 10 designers
Information Architecture
GitHub, Transmit
Agile Methodology
Data Visualization

EXPERIENCE

CREATIVE LEAD, UX/UI DESIGN Confidential Oversee and mentor mobile 10 UX/UI designers and client relationships, and design as well.
Coordinates with on and offshore teams daily to see that deadlines are met to the scope of clients' needs and hit deadlines, across all mobile and responsive platforms, and designs themes.
RESPONSIVE VISUAL DESIGNER Confidential Working with development team and as a liaison with the branding department to roll out a completely responsive, multilingual, global web platform for legacy product, SHL. Adobe CS6, HTML5, CSS and ideation of dashboarding, streamlining, responsive, mobile.

UI/UX DESIGNER

Confidential

UI web designer HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery:

FREELANCE UI/UX DESIGNER

Confidential

Contract/freelance work for prestigious and local DC clients: Blackboard Inc., DC9, International Code Design, Cashmere Zoo, and most recent work with NASA, Edelman, Penn Good, Burson-Marsteller.

VISUAL DESIGNER / BRANDING SPECIALIST

Confidential

Executed graphic design collateral reprints/refreshes.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER / BRANDING STRATEGIST

Confidential

Refreshed current branding image and created sales tools.

CREATIVE LEAD / ADVOCATE

Confidential

Design of campaign collateral, and grass roots volunteer.

UI/UX VISUAL DESIGNER PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential

UI design and maintenance of college university clients' student ID/campus card program websites.
Wireframing weekly HTML emails, and using HTML and CSS to design templates and distribute
Lead Blackboard CampusImpact, a design and marketing platform for Blackboard's higher education clients, which established and grew their campus card programs' revenues
Created campus card brand image, designed collateral, and wrote copy for all targeted marketing pieces brochures, flyers, posters, signage, ads, email campaigns and direct mail for 80 clients/year
Total product project management, creative management, and profit/loss accountability including all steps: design, implementation, delivery, metric tracking, contracts and billing.
Designed all Blackboard internal communications for monthly corporate fund raising events, and promoted to the company using email, print, and web a ubiquitous branding platform
Preparing targeted graphics and tables, working directly with the in-house Blackboard RFP team, for detailed sales proposals to all prospective universities as well as current clients
Lead quarterly Webex presentations on how to optimally market your card program, including PowerPoint design, content, case studies, and live presentation to higher education clients
Managed entire CampusImpact internal sales and accounting aspects, of cross-functional teams of indirect reports simultaneously, and trained all new hires on product
Averaged 120K gross / 80K net profit in revenue-generating marketing initiatives annually

CLIENT MANAGER

Confidential

Managed the client and merchant relationship with the University Campus Card office, plus local business owners
Ran card program merchant promotions, including managing, scheduling, and advertising
Used ExactTarget and SilverPop HTML email programs weekly to promote specials to all students at 10 campuses

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