What I do really well:
Design and illustrate! Leadership and creative direction; budgets and planning; brainstorming, presentations and pitches; social media channels; photo direction, editing and oversight of photoshoots; press checks and digital press proofs; copyproofing; production superhero; offset, digital and flexo printing processes; print vs. digital/when and why.
I am a passionate culture-shaper and ask all the questions to get the best work. I rely on total collaboration and contribution across all internal channels without ego. I have overseen numerous product launches, events and large-scale projects and have enjoyed every minute of them. And I appreciate the everyday (and even the hail mary) projects that help pay the bills. Most of all, I am a designer first, so the visual language of my
work always resonates and connects with its audience.
Background:
Education
BFA in Visual Communications
The University of Kansas, Lawrence
(Brighton Polytechnic, England)
Experience
Freelance Designer/Illustrator
Currently
Senior Art Director
Wunderman Thompson Health
Associate Creative Director
Paradowski Creative
Associate Creative Director
Phoenix Creative Co.
Current and past clients include:
Anheuser-Busch (AB InBev), Nestlé Purina,
Sara Lee Bakery Group, Washington
University in St. Louis, Olin Business School, Monsanto/Bayer, Save-A-Lot Foods,
Cutex/Revlon and 10+ healthcare companies.
Mad skills:
• InDesign
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• XD
• Acrobat
• Keynote
• PowerPoint
• Outlook
• Teams
• Sharepoint
• Sketch
• Basecamp
• Asana
• Miro
• Figma
• Wordpress
• Zoom/Webex
• FB Ads Manager for Paid Social,
Google Display Ads and Google Ads
(Google AdWords / Paid Search)
• Best practices for CSS and HTML5
• Lifelong illustrator