RESUME
Senior Creative Services Manager &
Senior Graphic Designer
Extensive experience leading the design process from concept through delivery. Strong communicator, brand-builder, and designer for corporate, non-profit, and arts organizations.
EXPERTISE
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro) / Print and Digital Design / Trade Show Design / Typography and Color Theory / Design Principles, Artistic Fundamentals and the Fine Arts / Image Research and Selection
WORKING KNOWLEDGE
Microsoft Office Suite / Website Design
RECOGNIZED FOR
Creativity / Innovation / Collaboration / Problem-solving / Deadline Driven
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010-present
SENIOR CREATIVE SERVICES MANAGER /
SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Vantage Specialty Ingredients, Inc / Warren, New Jersey
Directs design and implementation of marketing collateral, brand identity, and advertising for a 600-employee, $180M multi-national corporation.
• Led the worldwide re-branding of Vantage Personal Care across 13 countries.
• Manage design team and vendors to establish art direction of brand initiatives design projects.
• Support sales teams by developing and designing marketing tools including trade shows, product marketing & data sheets, catalogs, brochures, and customer formulation demonstration kits.
• Develop print and digital advertising and social media, from concept and design through completion.
• Design and execute website content to promote marketing objectives including the introduction of new products and platforms.
• Create scientific illustrations and graphics for sales materials, presentations, and videos in collaboration with teams from Marketing, Formulation Labs, Technical Sales, and Research and Development.
2008-2012
ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
Raritan Valley Community College / Somerville, New Jersey
• Taught Graphic Design, 2-D Design, and Drawing
1991-present
GRAPHIC DESIGNER / ILLUSTRATOR freelance
• Designed email blasts, online advertisements, and websites. Print design of advertisements, logos, catalogs, brochures, invitations, CD cover artwork, point of purchase displays, business cards, and letterheads. Clients include:
Corporate: Green Line Botanicals, Mercury Records, Ingram Book Company, White Bridge Communications, Summit Medical Association, and Tennessee Association of Conventions.
Non-Profit: Hurricane Sandy NJ Relief Fund, Affordable Housing Alliance, Rebuilding Union Beach, The Robin Hood Foundation, American Architectural Foundation, Prevent Blindness Tennessee, and Tennessee Library Association.
Arts: Wes Sherman Studio, Hermanworks, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University), and The Arts Company.
1986-1991
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR
Ingram Book Company & Ingram Entertainment / Nashville, Tennessee
• Managed the design of catalogs, ads, brochures, point of purchase displays, business cards, and letterheads.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Art, Cum Laude
Freed-Hardeman University / Henderson, Tennessee
