SENIOR VISUAL DESIGN, UX, GRAPHICS, AND CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
I am a design professional leader, marketing design expert, senior graphic designer, visual and UX/UI designer, web developer, and entrepreneur with experience in studio, corporate, and freelance environments. With an eye for aesthetic visual design, typography, and a mind for effective user experience my expertise spans 20+ years.
Brand strategy + design
Visual storytelling
Design leadership + mentorship
Web + mobile responsive design
UX/UI design + Prototyping
Design + UI Wireframing
Marketing campaigns
Competitive Analysis
Demand + lead generation
Stakeholder relations
Animated Motion graphics
Excellent written + spoken skills
Figma
Photoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Adobe XD
Logic Pro
RESOLVE
MS Office
Google Suite
Senior Tech Specialist / UX Design
HCL Software
A Senior UX and UI design specialist across mobile, tablet, and progressive web applications for HCL Volt MX, an industry-leading app-development platform.
- Drive and participate studio engagements, sales calls
- Figma design of mockups and prototypes, and present design work to prospects to win business
- Deliver valuable and exceptional designs for internal teams and customers alike
- Provide UX/UI design expertise in presentations, workshops, and customer engagements to provide great user experiences and journeys
Founder + Creative Consultant
Emotiv Media Group
I founded Emotiv Media Group, an outgrowth of Emotiv Records, a creative consultancy and design firm helping clients connect with their audiences through public relations, marketing, media, and graphic, and web design.
- Advise clients for appropriate campaigns and approaches for business solutions
- Conceptualize and implement designs for print, digital, web, video, data research, project management, organizational planning, video, and audio production
- Specialties include healthcare, aerospace, entertainment, and nonprofits industries
Visual + Graphic Design Manager
Heartland Payment Systems
A subsidiary of Global Payments, Heartland Retail is the leading cloud-based POS and Retail Management software. Acquired by Heartland, at Springboard Retail I led and managed creative visual design projects for the Retail POS product. I oversaw visual corporate brand design guidelines in all facets of marketing collateral, digital assets, web, and public-facing environments.
- Managed freelance designers, setting priorities and workload at Springboard Retail
- Conceptualized and implemented design solutions for the Retail POS product including for lead generation efforts
- Asset creation included demand generation designs for emails, landing pages, digital collateral, print, trade shows
- Heartland Retail works with customers such as FILA, Las Vegas Raiders, and The Kennedy Center
Visual Design + Web
Phunware, Inc.
Oversaw and determined visual corporate brand design guidelines and all implementation of marketing collateral, digital assets, web, and public-facing environments.
- Conceptualized design solutions and implemented across customer-facing online and print designs including corporate websites and demand generation material with integration of social media
- Designed creative assets such as product sheets, infographics, white papers, articles, blog articles, emails, landing pages
- Managed and mentored junior designers, interns, and contract designers, setting goals, priorities, and workload
- Phunware creates category-defining mobile app solutions for clients such as Fox, NBC, WWE, AMC, and NASCAR
Web Designer + Integrator
Lunarpages Internet Solutions
At Lunarpages, now HostPapa, I designed attractive, professional, and highly-usable web interfaces, websites, and templates for internal and external clients.
- Integrated with Content Management System frameworks such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
- Expert attention to cross-browser issues and cross-device responsive mobile-first designs.
- Interfaced with clients from first contact to final project completion.
- Managed and mentored web design team, helping team members achieve key goals
Graphics Associate III
PacifiCare Dental & Vision
At Pacificare, acquired by UnitedHealth Group, I served as the lead designer in the marketing communications department of Fortune 500 healthcare insurance corporation.
- Graphic design, layout, and production from one to full-color. Includes online presentations, brochures, forms, monthly directories and newsletters.
- Maintained clients relations regarding art production requests.
- Coordinated projects from conception to completion.
- Collected printing bids and distributed work to vendors.
Master of ARTS in Organizational Leadership (WOrship)
Hope International University
Bachelor of Arts in Communications (Advertising)
California State University, Fullerton