Résumé

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Experience

ACS Creative
2016–Present
Graphic Designer
Furniture client’s marketing and corporate identity with a heavy focus on flyers, email and store signage; responsibilities included:

  • Dozens of flyers and emails every month for stores in over 50 districts nationwide
  • Store signage and decals
  • Logos for special events/initiatives
  • Print collateral including posters, brochures, stationery, mailers, etc.
  • Convention/booth materials

Manifest LLC
(Previously known as McMURRY/TMG, TMG Custom Media, and The Magazine Group)
2007–2016
Production Assistant; Production Artist; Ad Traffic Manager; Art Director
Content marketing with a focus on magazines; responsibilities included:

  • Creating impositions based on editorial counts and ad lists
  • Typesetting
  • Layout/design
  • Photo research
  • Ad creation/trafficking
  • Post-production
  • Web content uploading via Drupal-based CMSs
  • Design of mobile/tablet versions
  • Illustration/infographics for blog posts and social media

Weapons of Choice

  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Microsoft Office
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Basic HTML/Joomla
  • Mag+ (print to mobile plugin)
  • Google DoubleClick for publishers (digital ads and metrics)
  • Enfocus PitStop Pro (PDF preflighting software)
  • Box (content management platform)
  • ProofHQ (online proofing software)
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud

  • Coda text editor

Education

Old Dominion University
BFA Graphic Design, 2006

Freelance

  • Shamrock Marathon poster for an annual race in Virginia Beach, VA
  • Local band The Razor Kings’ CD design, including insert, disc, and package design
  • T-shirt designs for various local diving teams and the Northern Virginia Swimming League
  • Logo design, Montgomery Dive Club, Rockville, MD

Extracurricular

  • Diving (NCAA Div I diver at ODU; Captain/scholarship/Dean’s List athlete)
  • Coaching my age group dive team, Alexandria Dive Club, which I co-founded in 2008
  • Sports and concert photography
  • Earned “Outstanding Achievement in Peer Mediation” for conflict resolution work in elementary schools as part of a program directed by Dr. Robert Harris, member, board of directors of Northern Virginia Mediation Services

* Yes, that’s really my last name.