Carol Kuchta

Clients include AbbVie, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GSK, Incyte, JAZZ, Merck, Pfizer, Takeda and others.
• Review and graphically enhance Microsoft PowerPoint medical/scientific presentations
• Accurately and consistently create graphs, tables, and figures for scientific publications based on publication specifications
• Design and produce layouts for scientific posters
• Adapt existing and newly created layouts for different formats (print and digital)
• Create cohesive design formats across various materials relative to target audience
• Maintain scientific poster schedule
• Determine need for outsourcing based on poster schedule on a daily/weekly basis, with an emphasis on keeping work in-house
• Provide creative design recommendations based on experience and account/client needs
• Assure all work meets corporate brand standards and quality assurance guidelines
• Routinely review congress, company, and journal guidelines to assure products meet the specifications outlined
• Research, concept, and mock-up visual design assignments as needed for new business and pitch presentations
• Develop a variety of creative and scientific graphics, concepts, and visual-related assets in a fast-paced, time line-driven work environment
• Train and mentor all new design hires.
• Grew the department with 6 new design hires.
• Responsible for all print queries to client, printer, congress and creative

Clients list: 2000 to Present
Morristown Memorial Hospital
• Executed and design three times yearly newsletter for New Jersey Safe Kids, as well as provided logo design services, flyers, education materials, and signage support
Tech Briefs Media Group
• Marketing and editorial support in the form of media kits and supplement design
• Specialization in infographics
Elsevier
• Marketing support in the form of brochures, banners, posters, and signage
Edgell Communications
• Provided editorial support in the form of magazine covers and interiors, supplement design, and process execution
• Specialization in chart and graph illustrations
Cahners, formerly Gordon Publications
• Supplement design and production, directory design and production, chart and graph illustration

Laboratory Equipment, R&D, Scientific Computing, HPC Source, Drug Development & Discovery magazines
• Responsible for all graphic/art content, including covers, for 36 issues a year
• Developed concepts and designs for 5 complete publication redesigns, including innovative, new art-based departments, as well as updated logos and a more user-friendly experience
• Partnered with brand leaders to develop and produce two new magazines from initial concept to launch
• Responsible for creating infographics for both the web and print
• Design and layout collateral pieces for marketing including but not limited to media kits, consumer and house web and print ads, chart and graph illustrations
• Collaborated with Battelle Memorial Institute to design every aspect of the annual Global Funding Forecast, a report that is presented to the R&D Caucus in the US House of Representatives annually
• Process abstract concepts and strategic content using them to produce visually compelling custom graphics for both print and web
• Work seamlessly with an integrated inter-disciplinary team of editors, production managers and brand owners to facilitate the production of all print and digital products development process from start to finish
• Freelance Graphic Designer for the Marketing Department since June 1990, hired full time in 2008