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Lead Art Director
La Grange, IL
Apr 2021 - Jun 2024 (3 years 2 months)
• Directing photographers and designers to ensure proper production of campaigns.
• Building all design templates, brand guidelines and rebranding our clients look/feel.
• Overseeing all creative direction for social media for all CBM clientele.
• Pushing brands to make them next level and managing that effort.
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Senior Graphic Designer
Chicago, IL
Sep 2019 - May 2020 (8 months)
* In-house marketing, production and event designer for all business units under the Advanced Group umbrella: Advanced Group, Advanced Resources, Advanced Clinical, Advanced RPO and WunderLand Group
* Created all social media graphics and infographics for events and in-house business units
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Editorial Graphic Designer
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019 (3 months)
• Designed financing memorandums, business proposals, multipage layouts and corporate decks for the HFF Debt team/Financial Department.
• Built and designed multipage business proposals using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop; based off of valuable information from the debt team and provided to me in Excel tables, Word documents and aerial maps.
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Senior Visual Designer
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019 (4 months)
• Create weekly storewide marketing emails with multiple sends focusing on the brand and retail product offers.
• Create wire frames, banner ads, splash and landing pages for promotional ads.
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Production Design Architect
Chicago, IL
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 year)
• Design new textbook covers, and children book covers, grades K-6 for English & Spanish.
• Build product pages, book cover arrays and duotones for post-production.
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Interactive Designer
Chicago, IL
Dec 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 2 months)
(Contract) * Collaborated with content managers to develop integrated digital campaigns comprising email design social medial and digital advertising. * Successfully launched the HelloSpring marketing campaign to expose the Spring Rewards brand to online shoppers resulting higher lead generation.
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Interactive Art Director
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015 (4 months)
• Designed digital emails and social media ads from conception to completion to boost sales and notify customers of special offers.
• Created a responsive mobile video app to show customers what people were eating in specific cities and where the local dining spots were located.
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Visual Designer
Apr 2013 - Jun 2015 (2 years 2 months)
• Prepared print, digital, logos, branding guidelines and video assets for integrated campaigns across the CTMG brand portfolio.
• B2B/B2C support for Tribune Publishing’s national sales organization across all eight markets.
• Designed innovative covers and wraps for unique advertising opportunities for Chicago Tribune, RedEye and the LA Times.
• Created print, digital and interactive video ad units for big name brands across the US that partnered with Tribune.
• Worked on Out of Home ads: bus shelters, street furniture, mall-scapes, and window ads.
• Sent out bi-weekly in-house sales emails to sellers in the national markets.
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Senior Graphic Designer
Jun 2010 - Apr 2013 (2 years 10 months)
• Design lead on digital ads, social media, landing pages and photography.
• Managed, trained and oversaw new hires and interns in the marketing department.
• Designed out of office and in-house signage, all branding materials and NCSA logos/sub-logos.
• Created sales/marketing collateral, brand guidelines, press kits, direct mail and trade-show banners.
• In charge of all production materials and managed efficient pricing for clients.
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Freelance Graphic Designer
Jun 2009 - May 2012 (2 years 11 months)
* Designed marketing collateral, tradeshow banners and kiosks for media conventions.
* Created logos, print and animated digital ads for 750 locations nationwide.
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Freelance Graphic Designer
Mar 2009 - Jun 2009 (3 months)
* Created Nike's Global Treasury Department logo.
* Designed sub-logos for each of the four value streams: Financial Supply Chain, Operational Risk Management, Financial Management and Trading Company.